{"id":1337,"date":"2026-05-16T06:32:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2026-05-16T06:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:32:27","slug":"university-students-continue-protest-at-malwana-house-allegedly-linked-to-basil-rajapaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/16\/university-students-continue-protest-at-malwana-house-allegedly-linked-to-basil-rajapaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"University Students Continue Protest at Malwana House Allegedly Linked to Basil Rajapaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the All Ceylon University Students\u2019 Union continue their protest for the third consecutive day at the luxury residence located in Malwana, which is alleged to belong to former minister Basil Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>The students decided to remain at the property after discussions held yesterday with officials from the Ministry of Education ended without a resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The protesting university students are demanding that the government officially take over the house and the surrounding land for public use and welfare purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The luxury mansion, built on a 16-acre property in Malwana and allegedly linked to Basil Rajapaksa, was previously taken over by the government through a court process during the former \u201cGood Governance\u201d administration.<\/p>\n<p>During the court proceedings, authorities were reportedly unable to clearly identify the true owner of the property.<\/p>\n<p>Later, during the Aragalaya protest period, the house was set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Amid this background, members of the All Ceylon University Students\u2019 Union entered the property last Thursday and brought it under their control as part of their ongoing protest campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the All Ceylon University Students\u2019 Union continue their protest for the third consecutive day at the luxury residence located in Malwana, which is alleged to belong to former minister Basil Rajapaksa. The students decided to remain at the property after discussions held yesterday with officials from the Ministry of Education ended without a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}