Sri Lankan army dismantles the protest camp in front of the presidential palace
Hundreds of police and soldiers in Colombo overnight Thursday-Friday stormed the main protest camp in front of the presidential palace and began dismantling the protesters' tents, AFP correspondents reported.
The police and army launched this operation to open the roads leading to the presidential palace and evacuate the protesters in front of it, knowing that the protesters had pledged to evacuate the place by Friday afternoon.
Members of the security and military units stormed the camp armed with batons and began removing the obstacles that the protesters had placed in front of the main gate of the presidential palace, part of which they had stormed earlier
this July.
The protesters had announced their intention to evacuate the area by Friday afternoon, after the new government was sworn in by new President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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