{"id":67865,"date":"2013-01-05T05:45:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=67865"},"modified":"2013-01-05T05:45:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T05:45:40","slug":"sri-lanka-criticised-over-war-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-criticised-over-war-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Criticised Over &#8216;War Tourism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A campaign group for human rights has criticised &#8220;tasteless&#8221; holiday accommodation built on the site of Sri Lanka&#8217;s &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=killing+fields&amp;x=8&amp;y=6\">killing fields<\/a><\/span>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lagoon of Nanthi Kadal, on the island\u2019s north coast, was, in 2009, the scene of atrocities in the Sri Lankan army\u2019s final push against the Tamil Tigers. 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One teak villa was opened by the president, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=14&amp;y=6\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span>, and his brother, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\">defence secretary<\/a><\/span>.&#8221; Daily Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/travelnews\/9779857\/Sri-Lanka-criticised-over-war-tourism.html\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":67866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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