Protests amidst economic meltdown in Sri Lanka
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka deploys troops to quell protests Soldiers secure and cordon off the area near Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home in Colombo Ishara S. KODIKARA AFP Troops armed with sweeping powers to detain suspects were deployed in Sri Lanka Saturday, hours after the president declared a state of emergency as protests against him escalated. Gotabaya Rajapaksa invoked the emergency on Friday night, a day after hundreds tried to storm his house in anger over unprecedented shortages of food, fuel…