{"id":89679,"date":"2025-08-13T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89679"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:28:25","slug":"tamils-fight-back-against-land-grabs-in-sri-lanka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/tamils-fight-back-against-land-grabs-in-sri-lanka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamils fight back against land grabs in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k2lh1OyGqUsLPGDCYWI\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nTamil farmers and activists in Sri Lanka have faced years of land grabs and livestock killings fueled by state-backed projects. Many see these actions as a continued push toward Sinhalization \u2014 a strategy to establish majoritarian Sinhala-Buddhist dominance in the aftermath of decades of civil war. DW reports from Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil farmers and activists in Sri Lanka have faced years of land grabs and livestock killings fueled by state-backed projects. Many see these actions as a continued push toward Sinhalization \u2014 a strategy to establish majoritarian Sinhala-Buddhist dominance in the aftermath of decades of civil war. DW reports from Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[2656,38003,12923,38002],"class_list":["post-89679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-fight","tag-land-grabs","tag-sri-lanka","tag-tamils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89680,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89679\/revisions\/89680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}