“Hundreds of police and soldiers in Colombo stormed the main protest camp in front of the presidential palace at night and began dismantling protesters’ tents and removing obstacles that protesters had set up in front of the palace’s main gate,” Agence France-Presse said. Earlier this month.

The police and army launched this operation to open the roads leading to the presidential palace and evacuate the protesters in front of it, knowing that the protesters had committed to evacuate the place by Friday noon, after the new government took the constitutional oath before the new President, Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Six-time Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickremesinghe was sworn in as president of the crisis-hit South Asian nation in front of Chief Justice Jayanta Jayasuriya at the heavily guarded parliament compound yesterday.