Sri Lankan govt attacks on students protested

Chris Slee
Naarm/Melbourne
July 21, 2017
Issue 
1146
News
Photo: Viraj Dissanayake

A rally called by the Campaign for Democracy in Sri Lanka was held in Federation Square on July 16. Protesters are opposed to the creation of a private medical college, the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine. The Government Medical Officers Association has called for SAITM to be nationalised.

Speakers condemned police attacks on students, doctors and others protesting against the privatisation of medical education, including when 96 students were injured during a police attack against a demonstration on June 21.

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