“I fell down and they hit me with an iron rod and it cracked my back. It has damaged two tissues inside my backbone,” 24-year-old Shasika Madushan said.
The United Nations has condemned the use of violence against peaceful protesters and urged Sri Lankan authorities to"immediately halt the use of such force".
Protesters had promised to vacate the building peacefully on Saturday. But hundreds of military and police descended on the site in the early hours of Friday morning, taking it back by force.Aaron Fernandes “After five hours, they opened the gate to allow people to go to hospital. Even if we died here, they wouldn’t have bothered. They were trying to bring total military control here”.Source:He was among at least 50 injured during the crackdown, which removed half of the protest site known as Gota Go Village.“We suspect that its more of an organised attack because they were targeting people, and I saw one looking though binoculars,” protester Methsara Benaragama said.
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