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How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing

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'Galabi Gang'

Damana sempet started a vigilante group armed with bamboo sticks called lates jabo jabore bare pikinari. She also wrote protest songs, bainaameeticatolade conpa, it's the time to wake up. Galabi is hindi for pink. By two thousand and six they had around a thousand members. And that year they surrounded a police station in a protest against corruption.

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