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Notwithstanding the Socialist Equality Party’s principled opposition to the pro-capitalist policies of protest organisers, we strongly condemn the violent government-ordered assault.
The state-owned Sri Lanka Rupahavini Corporation (SLRC), Sri Lanka’s national television network, has returned to its former trilingual logo after internal and external pressure, an official said.
The picturesque Galle Face Green overlooking the Indian Ocean from Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, was the epicenter of the “Janatha Aragalaya” which means “people’s struggle” in the Sinhalese language that shook the nation earlier this year and forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee. Now, the site is deserted. The tents that housed protesters teachers, students, lawyers, health workers, farmers, fishermen, trade unionists, transporters and entrepreneurs since April 9 were demolished last month by security forces soon after former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took charge as president of this debt-ridden island nation of 21.6 million people.
But Wickremesinghe is seen by many as an ally of the Rajapaksa family that ruled Sri Lanka for most of the past two decades: Gotabaya’s brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was prime minister under him, served as president from 2005 to 2015. Inflation is at 60%, with severe shortages of fuel, food, medicines and el