{"id":102362,"date":"2020-05-16T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102362"},"modified":"2020-05-16T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T18:46:03","slug":"sri-lanka-demands-retraction-of-london-guardian-travel-quiz-with-reference-to-eelam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/16\/sri-lanka-demands-retraction-of-london-guardian-travel-quiz-with-reference-to-eelam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka demands retraction of London Guardian Travel Quiz with reference to \u201cEelam\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe government of Sri Lanka has demanded the retraction of the London Guardian Travel Quiz with reference to Eelam\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a press release issued by the Foreign relations ministry, the attention of the Ministry has been drawn to a quiz titled Travel quiz: do you know your islands, Man Friday?\u201d published on the web edition of The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom on Friday, 15 May 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d8a\u0dc5\u0db8 \u0db4\u0dad\u0dd4\u0dbb\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0dcf\u0da9\u0dd2\u0dba\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc0\u0dd1\u0dba\u0db8 \u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf \u0dbb\u0da2\u0dba\u0dda \u0daf\u0dd0\u0da9\u0dd2 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db0\u0dba \u0db8\u0dad \u0db1\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dad\u0dd4\u0db1\u0dd4 \u0dc4\u0dd0\u0da7\u0dd2  - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mkwCQ2GwZjg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second question reads -\u2018Eelam is an indigenous name for which popular holiday island?\u2019 and among the answers to this question, Sri Lanka has been listed as one of the choices and when one selects Sri Lanka as the answer, whilst indicating it as the correct answer, a further description \u2018the full name of the island\u2019s recent military insurgency was LTTE \u2013 Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam\u2019 appears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in the United Kingdom has written to the Editor of the Guardian newspaper Ms. Elisabeth Ribbans with a copy to the Editor in Chief Ms. Katherine Viner, on the inaccuracy of this information requesting that the content be removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Currently, this controversial question does not appear and seems to have been replaced in the&nbsp;Travel Quiz.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The government of Sri Lanka has demanded the retraction of the London Guardian Travel Quiz with reference to Eelam\u201d According to a press release issued by the Foreign relations ministry, the attention of the Ministry has been drawn to a quiz titled Travel quiz: do you know your islands, Man Friday?\u201d published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}