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Protesters defy curfew after social media ban in Sri Lanka

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By SRI NewsDesk Published April 4, 2022
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COLOMBO: Armed colors in Sri Lanka had a tense battle with a crowd protesting a worsening profitable extremity on Sunday, after a social media knockout failed to halt another day of anti-government demonstrations.

The South Asian nation is facing severe dearths of food, energy and other rudiments — on with record affectation and crippling power cuts — in its most painful downturn since independence from Britain in 1948.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assessed a state of exigency on Friday, the day after a crowd tried to storm his home in the capital Colombo, and a civil curfew is in effect until Monday morning.

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Sri Lanka’s main opposition alliance, denounced a social media knockout aimed at quelling enhancing public demonstrations, and said it was time for the government to abdicate.
“ President Rajapaksa more realise that the drift has formerly turned on his autocratic rule,” SJB legislator Harsha de Silva told AFP.

Colors armed with automatic assault rifles moved to stop a kick by opposition lawgivers and hundreds of their sympathizers trying to march to the capital’s Independence Square.

The road was blockaded a many hundred metres from the home of opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and the crowd engaged in a tense stage-off with security forces for nearly two hours before dispersing peacefully. Eran Wickramaratne, another SLB legislator, condemned the state of exigency protestation and the presence of colors on megacity thoroughfares.

“ We ca n’t allow a military preemption,” he said. “ They should know we’re still a republic.”
Social media Knockout

Internet service providers were ordered to block access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and several other social media platforms but the knockout didn’t discourage several small demonstrations away in Sri Lanka.

Police fired tear gas to disperse university scholars in the central city of Peradeniya, though demurrers in other corridor of the country ended without incident.

Private media outlets reported that the chief of Sri Lanka’s internet controller abnegated after the ban order went into effect. The knockout was rescinded latterly in the day after the country’s Human Rights Commission ruled that the defence ministry had no power to put the suppression.

The thoroughfares of Colombo stayed largely empty on Sunday, piecemeal from the opposition kick and long lines of vehicles queued for energy.

But police told AFP that one man had failed by electrocution after climbing a high- pressure pylon near Rajapaksa’s home. Residers said he was protesting rolling power cuts.

Mass demurrers had been planned for Sunday before the social media knockout went into effect, but organisers have heldup the rallies until after the curfew is lifted on Monday.

Internal rifts
The raising demurrers have led to crevices within the government, with the chairman’s whoreson Namal Rajapaksa condemning the partial internet knockout.

“ I’ll noway blink the blocking of social media,” said Namal, the country’s sports minister.

An inferior party has also suggested it may leave the ruling coalition within a week.

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