Economic Needs of Democracy, Accountability and Reconciliation
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October 17, 2015, 7:00 pm
File photo: Police baton charge and disperse a crowd demanding clean drinking water, on the Matara-Tissa main road at Bandagiriya.by Tisaranee Gunasekara
"When the social contract is abrogated, when trust between a government and its citizens fails, disillusionment, disengagement or worse follows."
Joseph Stiglitz (The Price of Inequality)
The protest was peaceful, until the police intervened. The protestors were demanding access clean water. This was October 12, 2015, in Bandagiriya, in the Hambantota district, the bastion of the Rajapaksa clan.
