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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Saroj Pathirana

‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests

Sri Lankan protesters |outside the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo [File: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters]

Colombo, Sri Lanka – A mainly youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days.

During the period, the protesters forced a president and a prime minister – both brothers from the powerful but now-unpopular Rajapaksa clan – to resign, with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa even fleeing the country last week to escape the uprising.

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