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Sri Lanka’s Economic and Political Crises Continue

Deep Dish on Global Affairs

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What's the Demographics of the Uprising?

I think one of the things that's truly remarkable about this movement as it starts back in like april, where massive numbers of people come out in the streets. I would saytat there were a sort of, mainly the youth, but there were three categories of protesters. So one is activis who r against the government, erer maybe primarily from nun cities and young people on the left. Then you have political parties, trade unions, religious groups, church, buddhist priests,. Civil society groups, even business associations, workers. You know, it was amazing that the plurality of this opposition to the government, and then political parties that were in the opposition, and then the

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