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‘We are watching you’: Protesters to Sri Lankan Parliament sooner than presidential election

ByRomeo Minalane

Jul 20, 2022
‘We are watching you’: Protesters to Sri Lankan Parliament sooner than presidential election

As protesters burnt an effigy of acting Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe outdoor the presidential living of job, the message from the protesting aspect road to the Sri Lankan Parliament is clear: we’re watching you.

On the eve of Parliament assembly to elect a brand unusual president of Sri Lanka, the protesters, under the banner of Inter College Students Federation, met over all yet again to impress upon the Parliamentarians to vote for a corruption-free Sri Lanka and no longer relics of the Rajapaksa generation.

”We are watching all of the Parliamentarians. Our work is easiest half of carried out with the ouster of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa That modified into once step one. Ranil Wickremesinghe is moreover considered as half of the identical atmosphere. We desire a orderly shatter. Attributable to this fact, the methodology forward for our war Janatha Aragalya (participants’s protests) is relying on who our leaders seize,” says Visaka Jayaveera, a trainer and a mumble leader in Colombo.

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Armoured personnel carriers, commandos, infantrymen with assault rifles, and policemen on the help of layers of barricades have been bid up to purchase Parliament stable from protesters.

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