Sri Lanka - The repression of the aragalaya protest movement

In a new report released today, FIDH documents the relentless repression of the sustained nationwide protests that began in Sri Lanka in early 2022, amid the country’s worst political and economic crisis in decades.
The protest movement, called aragalaya [“struggle” in Sinhala], was triggered by the government’s protracted economic mismanagement and the growing public discontent over corruption and nepotism. The protests, which initially started in the country’s capital, Colombo, quickly spread across all nine provinces of Sri Lanka. Some protests continued in Colombo in 2023.
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