{"id":8284,"date":"2010-11-08T00:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2010-11-08T00:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:56:59","slug":"pressure-for-an-independent-umpire-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/11\/pressure-for-an-independent-umpire-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure for an Independent Umpire in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>James Bourne spoke to the Sri Lanka Human Rights Project coordinator, Professor Jake Lynch, about the political situation in Sri Lanka- and how sport can be used as an effective tool of persuasion. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan Cricket team is currently touring Australia for a three match series- and, to the delight of Australia\u2019s large Sri Lankan community, they\u2019ve already beaten the host nation twice in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>But there are groups in Australia who believe that the Sri Lankan team shouldn\u2019t be playing cricket at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Tamil Congress has called on the International Cricket Council to ban the country from the playing the sport professionally.<\/p>\n<p>They hope that such a move will pressure its government into agreeing to an independent inquiry into human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The calls are supported by those involved with the Sri Lanka Human Rights Project at the University of Sydney.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/2ser.podomatic.com\/entry\/index\/2010-11-06T05_19_17-07_00\" >PLEASE CLICK TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Lynch is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Bourne spoke to the Sri Lanka Human Rights Project coordinator, Professor Jake Lynch, about the political situation in Sri Lanka- and how sport can be used as an effective tool of persuasion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tms-peace-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}