Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops to quell protests ...Middle East

COLOMBO: Troops armed with sweeping powers were deployed in Sri Lanka Saturday with the near-bankrupt country on edge after the president declared a state of emergency to quell escalating protests against him.Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked special powers on Friday night, a day after hundreds tried to storm his house in anger over unprecedented shortages of food, fuel and medicine.The state of emergency was for the “protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community”, Rajapaksa said in a proclamation.Soldiers armed with automatic assault rifles had already been deployed for crowd control at fuel stations and elsewhere when the emergency

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