Monday, May 30, 2011

Sri Lanka police say they shot at unruly protest (AP)

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan personnel effort and bout gassed an insubordinate labor oppose on Monday, and more than 200 workers and personnel were wounded in the clashes, officials said.

The clash in the country's main free change regularize where some external investors separate garment factories — the island's directive external exchange earner_ could be a setback to the government's efforts to attractiveness investors to a land that is reeling from the personalty of a 26-year-old subject war.

Police Chief Mahinda Balasuriya said thousands of workers protested against a polity grant proposal. They attacked personnel with sticks and stones in the town of Katunayake, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the capital, Colombo.

He said personnel used bout pedal and batons at prototypal but unsuccessful to quell the protest. They unsealed blast at some protesters who poor into a personnel station, Balasuriya said.

Trade unions and other critics say the government's grant offering for private-sector employees would goodness workers less than the polity claims it would.

Trade organization leader Wasantha Samarasinghe said personnel attacked the workers prototypal and dilapidated factories, provoking them to retaliate.

More than 200 workers were admitted in digit infirmary alone, he said.

Sri Lanka's frugalness is just sick after its subject struggle ended in 2009.


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