How a band of activists helped bring down Sri Lanka's government


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  • Tuesday, 12 Jul 2022

Demonstrators sit in a protest area, dubbed the Gota-Go village, where people are gathering in opposition to Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa near the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 11, 2022. Picture taken April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

COLOMBO (Reuters) -In June, a few dozen activists started meeting regularly at a seaside tented camp in Colombo for hours-long sessions to think up ways to revive Sri Lanka's flagging protest movement.

The group, which included a Catholic priest, a digital strategist and a popular playwright, succeeded beyond their wildest hopes.

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