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Public Emergency in Sri Lanka
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- Sri Lanka’s president Kotapaya Rajapaksa has declared a state of emergency in the country
- Which gives sweeping powers to the country’s security forces.
- This was declared after hundreds of citizens of the county tried to storm his house seething with anger over the economic crisis Sri Lanka is facing.
- Inflation in the country has hit 18.7 percent.
- Food prices have soared by 30.1 percent.
- Diesel shortages have also sparked outrage across the country.
- Daily 13-hours of a power cut is being imposed as there is no diesel for running the generators.
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