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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe

Thousands of Sri Lankans rally over government handling of crisis

FILE PHOTO - A worker stands in front of a closed essential food store during a nationwide strike demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his cabinet, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Thousands of supporters of Sri Lankan opposition parties rallied on Sunday in the commercial capital Colombo as a weeks-long political and economic crisis showed no sign of abating.

Sri Lanka's economy was hit hard by the pandemic and tax cuts by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government.

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