{"id":79826,"date":"2018-08-02T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=79826"},"modified":"2018-08-02T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:29:44","slug":"germany-arrests-suspect-over-alleged-sri-lanka-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/02\/germany-arrests-suspect-over-alleged-sri-lanka-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany arrests suspect over alleged Sri Lanka war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a class=\"author\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Associated+Press\" rel=\"nofollow\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy Mail on line<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>BERLIN (AP) &#8211; German authorities have arrested a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing captured government soldiers as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel group a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors said a judge ordered Thursday the 36-year-old, identified only as Sivatheeban B. because of German privacy rules, detained pending a potential indictment. He was arrested Wednesday in the Duesseldorf area, suspected of committing war crimes and membership in a foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say he belonged to the Tamil Tigers from 2006-2009. They allege that, in 2008, he tied up 16 soldiers and guarded them as they were driven to a site where they were shot.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s civil war ended in 2009 when government forces defeated the rebels, who fought to create a separate state for ethnic minority Tamils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0ASSOCIATED PRESS\u00a0Courtesy Mail on line BERLIN (AP) &#8211; German authorities have arrested a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing captured government soldiers as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel group a decade ago. Federal prosecutors said a judge ordered Thursday the 36-year-old, identified only as Sivatheeban B. because of German privacy rules, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826","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=79826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}