01/28/2012
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World Socialist Web Site
Sri Lankan prison guards shot and injured scores of protesting inmates in Colombo’s Welikada Magazine Prison, the country’s biggest incarceration facility, last Wednesday. The riot and its bloody suppression underscore the brutal conditions in the prisons and the anti-democratic nature of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government.
06/05/2011
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Groundviews
Protests in Katunayake Free Trade Zone: No police in sight has audio and video footage of the violent protests over the course of the week in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone. A 10 minute video of the protests on Thursday, after the Police killed 21 year old Free Trade Zone (FTZ) worker Roshan Chanaka, can be seen below.
06/03/2011
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Reuters
By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO, June 3 (Reuters) - Thousands of Sri Lankan workerswent on strike on Friday, the latest stoppage in five days oflabour unrest supported by the Marxist opposition that has
04/29/2011
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TamilNet
In a cruel show of ‘reconciliation,’ Sri Lanka’s occupying military in full swing has gone to the houses of released LTTE cadres, family members of the captives and ‘resettled’ Eezham Tamils living in open prisons in north and east and intimidated them to participate in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s demonstration show in Colombo on 1 May, to oppose any international justice coming to the crimes committed against them. A fleet of buses are organized to herd the people from Vanni and Jaffna to Colombo, after warning them of dire consequences if they don’t come. Meanwhile, a group of thugs has been brought from the south for violent demonstrations in the locality of UN offices in Jaffna city on May 1.
04/18/2011
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BBC
Trade unions affiliated to Sri Lanka's ruling coalition are divided over the president's call for mass protests against a UN report.
04/17/2011
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BBC
Sri Lanka's president calls for mass protests against a UN report said to allege that war crimes were committed at the end of the civil war.
04/17/2011
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Daily Mirror
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has called for mass protests against a UN report which urged a probe into alleged war crimes committed during the fight against Tamil Tiger rebels, his office said today.
03/01/2011
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Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Thousands of Sri Lanka's opposition activists have protested in the capital demanding that the government do something about the high cost of living.
02/28/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Tamil Nadu leaders arrested while trying to stage protest against Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
02/27/2011
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Daily Mirror
It is the responsibility of the political parties to organize a people’s struggle similar to other countries like Libya. The JVP will undertake this responsibility on behalf of the masses, JVP Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath said today. (YP)