AFP:Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops to quell protests
Views: 0 Troops armed with sweeping powers to detain suspects were deployed in Sri Lanka Saturday, hours after the president declared a state of emergency as protests against him escalated. © Ishara S. KODIKARA Soldiers secure and cordon off the area near Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home in Colombo Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked the emergency on […]
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