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At Sunday's commemoration, authorities deployed heavily armed troops that outnumbered demonstrators. Human rights activists in Colombo carried out protests near the main cemetery too.
Sri Lanka witnessed its biggest protest on Saturday as thousands of citizens took to streets their agony over the island nation's crippling economic crisis. Lankans blamed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the economic situation, and marched into his house. The country has been reeling under its wors
The protestors entered Wickremesinghe's house and set the place on fire after a tense situation erupted between the protestors and security forces on the ground. Despite tear gas being fired on the protestors to disperse, they entered his house and set the house on fire.
Earlier, the opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) confirmed that its leader Sajith Premadasa will not accept the PM's post in an interim government.
In the southern town of Weeraketiya, a ruling-party politician opens fire on anti-government protesters, killing two