When the attack happened on gotagogam wich is the main protest side, the violence became so bad. So the embattled prime minister calls in a bunch of supporters, allegedly incites them to a sort of counter attack. In the end, he resigned. But that was what the protesters were looking for, right? A hinda raje pax. Even though main the rajapansa left, most of the raja paxa sprumg what people observe still working behind the scenes to hang onto power.
Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is not fading: many want every member of the storied Rajapaksa family out of government. We examine an effort to develop undersea GPS and learn why a watery sat-nav would be so useful. And why 1972 was such a formative year for music in Brazil.
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