{"id":7582,"date":"2019-06-05T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7582-all-nine-of-sri-lanka-s-muslim-ministers-resign-as-bombing-backlash-intensifies\/"},"modified":"2019-06-05T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T10:03:57","slug":"all-nine-of-sri-lanka-s-muslim-ministers-resign-as-bombing-backlash-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/7582-all-nine-of-sri-lanka-s-muslim-ministers-resign-as-bombing-backlash-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"All nine of Sri Lanka\u2019s Muslim ministers resign, as bombing backlash intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">All nine Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka\u2019s government and two Muslim provincial governors resigned on Monday as the fragile,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>All nine Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka\u2019s government and two Muslim provincial governors resigned on Monday as the fragile, Buddhist-majority country grappled further with the communal backlash of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed as many as 250 people.<\/p>\n<p>The resignations were in response to a hunger strike by an influential Buddhist monk, Rathana, who said he would fast to death unless the country\u2019s president removed three senior Muslim officials \u2014 the two provincial governors and one of the ministers \u2014 that he accuses of having ties to the suicide bombers who targeted churches and hotels.<\/p>\n<p>The eight ministers not targeted by Mr. Rathana announced their resignations in what appeared to be an act of solidarity with the three officials accused by the monk, who also serves as a member of Parliament and an adviser to the president, Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>The resignations drew condemnation across Sri Lanka, with senior politicians expressing outrage on the communal nature of the demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All nine Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka\u2019s government and two Muslim provincial governors resigned on Monday as the fragile, \u00a0 All nine Muslim ministers in Sri Lanka\u2019s government and two Muslim provincial governors resigned on Monday as the fragile, Buddhist-majority country grappled further with the communal backlash of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[363,276,205,1107],"class_list":["post-7582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attack","tag-bomb","tag-muslim","tag-srilanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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