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Condemning the action, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka said in a statement that the ... but they continued camping outside the president’s office, as they had been for months.
Colombo, Sri Lanka – The mainly youth-led protest movement in crisis-hit Sri Lanka is divided on whether to withdraw from a sea-facing camp they set up months ago near the presidential ...
Security forces in Sri Lanka raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital early on Friday, arresting protesters and dismantling tents. Hundreds of troops and police commandos moved ...
Sri Lanka’s police and military troops forcibly removed anti-government protesters camped outside the presidential office in Colombo in a pre-dawn raid on Friday on the order of the country’s ...
Sri Lankan security forces demolished the main anti-government protest camp in the capital ... head of the influential Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Saliya Peiris, who warned it would hurt ...
Security forces in Sri Lanka have raided a protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early on Friday. Footage showed soldiers in riot gear and armed with assault rifles making their way ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Scores of security forces raided a protest camp outside the presidential office here Friday, beating demonstrators and demolishing tents hours after the country’s new ...
A protester is consoled by a fellow demonstrator after a raid on an anti-government protest camp early on Friday ... the president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka Credit: Buddhika Weerasinghe ...
Colombo (AFP): A sullen crowd reacted to the election of Sri Lanka's new president with disappointment on Wednesday, near the protest camp where they last week celebrated chasing his predecessor ...
He said he did not have any information on any casualties. Sri Lanka military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe said the air raids targeted a training camp run by the Sea Tigers. "This was not due to ...