{"id":132422,"date":"2014-11-02T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T09:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=132422"},"modified":"2014-11-13T22:05:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:35:33","slug":"aluthgama-tense-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/aluthgama-tense-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluthgama Tense Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tense situation has arisen in and around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Aluthgama&amp;x=5&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aluthgama<\/span><\/a> after a private altercation between a Sinhalese and Muslim last evening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_125865\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aluthgama.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-125865\" class=\"size-full wp-image-125865 \" alt=\"Aluthgama\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Aluthgama.gif\" width=\"487\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-125865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aluthgama &#8211; Last june | File photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following the altercation, a rumour had been spread to the effect that the Sinhalese person was assaulted on his way back from the temple resulting in Sinhalese crowds gathering to the Aluthgama town.<\/p>\n<p>The incident had allegedly taken place in Dharga town which was subject to racial violence in June this year.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no reported violence yet, with Special Task Force troops deployed in and around the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":125865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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