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Sri Lanka protests met with tear gas and water cannons, as country on the brink of collapse | South China Morning Post

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Anti-government protests continued across Sri Lanka on July 6, 2022, amid the country’s worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. Young people and opposition supporters have been demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for months, whose attempts to save the economy have failed to end th…

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