{"id":117592,"date":"2021-08-29T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T22:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117592"},"modified":"2021-08-29T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T22:43:21","slug":"lankan-tamils-not-refugees-we-are-there-for-them-stalin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/29\/lankan-tamils-not-refugees-we-are-there-for-them-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankan Tamils not refugees, we are there for them: Stalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The New Indian Express<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed his regret in the Assembly that he called the camp for Sri Lankan Tamils a \u2018refugee camp\u2019 when he announced the welfare package for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newindianexpress.com\/uploads\/user\/imagelibrary\/2019\/12\/22\/w900X450\/Lankan_Tamils_remain.jpg?w=900&amp;dpr=1.0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A child at a camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees near Vellore | S dineshBy&nbsp;Express News Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHENNAI:&nbsp;Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed his regret in the Assembly that he called the camp for Sri Lankan Tamils a \u2018refugee camp\u2019 when he announced the welfare package for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further added, Hereafter, the camp will be addressed as \u2018Sri Lankan Tamils Rehabilitation Camp\u2019 since they are not refugees. We are here for them and their welfare.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The New Indian Express Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday expressed his regret in the Assembly that he called the camp for Sri Lankan Tamils a \u2018refugee camp\u2019 when he announced the welfare package for them. A child at a camp for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees near Vellore | S dineshBy&nbsp;Express News Service CHENNAI:&nbsp;Chief [&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-117592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117592","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=117592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}