{"id":151575,"date":"2025-08-25T17:56:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=151575"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:56:50","slug":"have-you-forgotten-sinhalese-muslims-chased-out-of-jaffna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/08\/25\/have-you-forgotten-sinhalese-muslims-chased-out-of-jaffna\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you forgotten &#8211; Sinhalese &amp; Muslims chased out of Jaffna"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka Sovereignty Forum<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Have you forgotten?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The LTTE banned Sinhalese &amp; Muslims from Jaffna in 1990.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Entire families left with only the clothes on their back.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>What happened to their land<br>What happened to their homes<br>What&nbsp;happened to their belongings &amp; possessions?<br>What did LTTE do with these?<br>Similarly, the LTTE took lands &amp; homes of Tamils too &#8212; these Tamils are begging the Armed Forces not to leave North<br>These Tamils trust Sri Lanka&#8217;s Armed Forces more than LTTE &#8211; only those living in North know this truth.<br>You wont hear it from those living in Oslo, Toronto, London, Paris or Colombo&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>If Geneva dictates our Army to leave North, who will shield us, Tamils who know the truth are asking?<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>What will you do if history repeats?<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Sovereignty Forum Have you forgotten? The LTTE banned Sinhalese &amp; Muslims from Jaffna in 1990. Entire families left with only the clothes on their back. What happened to their landWhat happened to their homesWhat&nbsp;happened to their belongings &amp; possessions?What did LTTE do with these?Similarly, the LTTE took lands &amp; homes of Tamils too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151575","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=151575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}