{"id":115077,"date":"2013-11-16T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=115077"},"modified":"2013-11-21T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:20:54","slug":"abuse-accusations-overshadow-commonwealth-summit-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/abuse-accusations-overshadow-commonwealth-summit-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse Accusations Overshadow C&#8217;wealth Summit In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sri Lanka\u2019s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, tried to pre-empt criticism of his government\u2019s human rights record on Friday as he welcomed leaders of Commonwealth countries to a\u00a0summit\u00a0meeting\u00a0in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, that was overshadowed by persistent allegations of state-sponsored abuse during a long civil war by the Sinhalese-dominated government against ethnic Tamils.&#8221; the New York Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/16\/world\/asia\/abuse-accusations-overshadow-commonwealth-summit-in-sri-lanka.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=2&amp;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sharma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-115078\" alt=\"MR Sharma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sharma.jpg\" width=\"605\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sharma.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sharma-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MR-Sharma-800x530.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by: Official Photographer CHOGM 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":115078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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