By GenevaSolutions.news, Leah Koonthamattam
Violence and repression marred the streets of Sri Lanka this week as one protester was killed by the police. Over the last month the island state raged with demonstrations as anger against the ruling party for its handling of the economic crisis deepened.
“This was already a country that was under the international human rights commission’s agenda for many years on issues of transitional justice, accountability, and other past violations linked to the civil war,” Clément Voule, UN special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly, told Geneva Solutions.
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