Security personnel stand guard during a protest against the raid on an anti-government protest camp early on Friday, amid the country's economic crisis, near Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 22, 2022.COLOMBO - Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared a protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early on Friday , fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.
"A joint operation involving the military, police and police special forces was launched in the early hours to recover the presidential secretariat from the protesters as they have no legal right to hold it," police spokesperson Nalin Thalduwa told Reuters.Protesters had feared a crackdown afterWickremesinghe as acting head of state on Monday imposed a national state of emergency. Many regard him as an ally of Rajapaksa.
"This is not the time to crack down on citizens, but instead to look ahead at the immediate and tangible steps the Government can take to regain the trust of the people, restore stability, and rebuild the economy," Chung said in a tweet.Just hours after security forces moved against the protest camp, another Rajapaksa ally, senior lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena, was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new prime minister.
Angered by the pre-dawn raids, hundreds of protesters marched from the city's main railway station towards the Galle Face protest site, where military and riot police manning barricades held them back.
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