{"id":40612,"date":"2015-01-05T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40612"},"modified":"2015-01-05T07:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T14:35:42","slug":"what-if-sirisena-wins-implications-of-eelam-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/05\/what-if-sirisena-wins-implications-of-eelam-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"What if Sirisena wins? Implications of Eelam &#8211; Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Ratanapala<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>5 Jan 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eelam, water wars and a permanent state of war across an undefined and moving border!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap01.jpg\" alt=\"SLmap01\" width=\"585\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap01.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap01-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<strong>Water wars and a permanent state of war!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>River systems that cross the 2008 Eelam Boundary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-40614\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap02.jpg\" alt=\"SLmap02\" width=\"376\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap02.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SLmap02-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Potential flash points for war<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Majority of Sri Lankans living in the contested areas are peasant farmers, for whom, land and water are the only life giving resources. Without a central authority to decide on the use of land and water resources there will be constant conflicts across waterways of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Every waterway crossing of this undefined border will become a potential Mavil Aaru!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Sri Lankans want to live in a permanent state of war across this clan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ratanapala 5 Jan 2015 Eelam, water wars and a permanent state of war across an undefined and moving border! \u00a0Water wars and a permanent state of war! River systems that cross the 2008 Eelam Boundary \u00a0 \u00a0 Potential flash points for war Majority of Sri Lankans living in the contested areas are peasant farmers, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ratanapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612","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=40612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}