Sri Lankan attorney general orders arrest of leaders of mob violence against anti-government protesters

The belated arrests are a bid to deflect the widespread outrage over the violent attack on protesters voicing the sentiments of millions in their call for the president to resign and the deep social crisis to be alleviated.

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