Regime Police uses teargas, shooting, wasp/bee nests used to disperse protestors in Katunayake who were against the proposed bogus private sector pension scheme which is a plan by regime to take the EPF and ETF Funds as regime is running short of funds.
Reportedly the police had used the teargas to disperse the Katunayake FTZ protesters after a tense situation erupted between the police and protesters and the protesters started throwing stones at the police to protect themself from brutal police attacks.
The following video shows the tense situation that occurred when Minister Lokuge Tried to explain about the bogus pension scheme. Also we would like to inform our viewers that all MP's of Sri Lanka becomes eligible for a massive pension after 5 years in Parliament while other government workers become eligible for a mare pension after serving for more than 20 years !
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Thousands attend Syria protesters' funerals
Thousands of Syrians have attended the funerals for protesters killed in the central city of Homs, chanting slogans demanding the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, the country's president.
Rights activists say security forces killed at least 25 pro-democracy protesters in Homs on Sunday night as anti-government demonstrations flared across the country, claiming up to 30 lives.
"From alleyway to alleyway, from house to house, we want to overthrow you, Bashar," the mourners chanted, according to a witness at the mass funeral held for eight of the dead on Monday.
Al Jazeera's correspondent Rula Amin, in Damascus, reported that the situation in Homs was very tense.
"People are complaining that many of the wounded are not going to the hospital, they fear that the security forces will pick them up from their hospital bed," she said.
"There is also a shortage of blood according to the people we have been talking to.
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