Lanka's CDS urges people to help restore order

July 14, 2022 00:10

Amid ongoing protests, Sri Lanka's Chief of Defence Staff General Shavendra Silva requested all citizens to give their support to the armed forces to maintain law and order in the crisis-ridden country.

'Chief of Defence Staff General Shavendra Silva requests all citizens to give their support to armed forces & police to maintain the law & order in the country,' tweeted Daily Mirror.

At the party leaders' meeting, security forces discussed if force should be used to protect the Parliament, however, this request was turned down by the leaders present.

Commanders of the three armed forces, joint staff and IGP had also participated in the meeting.

Opposition leaders refused to approve the use of live ammunition against the protesters.

Instead as a political solution, the opposition party leaders decided to request Wickremesinghe to resign forthwith and the Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to take charge of the country until July 20 on the day where the voting for a new president takes place in parliament, reported Daily Mirror.

Almost all party leaders of the Opposition participated while only the Law and Order Minister Tiran Alles from the government side participated, Mano Ganesan said.

Hundreds of protesters have broken the first line of barricades set up outside the Parliament while forces are firing tear gas to disperse the crowds, reported Daily Mirror.

Meanwhile, a 26-year-old protester who was hospitalised after being teargassed outside the Prime Minister's Office in Flower Road today has died after developing breathing difficulties.

The protester was receiving treatment in a private hospital in Colombo.Crippled by a shortage of foreign exchange, the island nation of 22 million people has defaulted on all of its foreign debt and is in a deep economic crisis, resulting in public outrage. -- ANI

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