Security forces dismantle Sri Lanka's main protest campMembers of Sri Lankan security forces remove a barricade blocking the main gate of the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on July 22, 2022. COLOMBO - Sri Lankan security forces raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital Colombo early Friday, dismantling it and evicting activists gathered outside the president's office. Hundreds of soldiers removed barricades set up by protesters blocking the main gate of the Presidential Secretariat, which demonstrators had partly overrun earlier this month. Security forces used loud hailers asking a few hundred protesters to pull back and confine themselves to a designated protest site near the secretariat. Several activists were seized by troops who smashed tents set up along the main road leading to the presidential office.
