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COLOMBO - A Sri Lankan jail witnessed a rare moment of accord last year when both prisoners and guards clamoured to greet its newest inmate: The man who toppled the island nation’s president.
“We had a very warm welcome,” Mr Mudalige told AFP outside a court appearance in June, while recounting his arrival at jail alongside two confederates.Mr Mudalige said his incarceration was a necessary “sacrifice” in the unfinished battle to reform Sri Lanka’s political system. “We don’t think the government can go on for long,” he added. “When you analyse the situation, there is no way the government can continue.”As head of the Inter-University Students’ Federation at the time, Mr Mudalige stood at the forefront of last year’s street protests.
Mr Rajapaksa, once lauded by the island’s Sinhalese majority for helping crush a decades-long Tamil separatist insurgency, wasProtesters streamed through the compound, gaping at its opulent furnishings and frolicked in its pool in the revelry that followed.quickly sought to restore order by directing police to arrest the movement’s leaders.
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