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Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa faces ‘terrible, massive protests’ unless he resigns

Since it began in May, it has been led by ordinary citizens joining forces with a wide range of interest groups – from trade unionists and farmers to artists, students and socialists – for a single goal: the removal of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his brother Mahinda and the rest of their family from the power. The president is the only one of them who remains in office.