Midnight protests rock Sri Lanka’s Parliament
The Hindu
Government ‘squeezing people’s necks’, says student leader
COLOMBO: Several hundred people gathered outside Sri Lanka’s Parliament late on Thursday night, hours after police tear-gased students who marched to the spot as part of the ongoing citizens’ protests against the ruling Rajapaksas.
They chanted anti-government slogans through the night, in the latest escalation of agitations demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resign, taking responsibility for the economic meltdown in the island. For months now, citizens’ groups have been holding street protests in different parts of the country, as they battle acute shortages of essentials and long power cuts.
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