Traffic in Pettah due to protest

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Traffic congestion was reported at Olcott Mawatha, Colombo due to a protest carried out by a group of university students a short while ago, Police said.

They said a group of about 200 undergraduates were staging the protest against the arrest of several university students over the recent SAITM protest in Colombo. (Thilanka Kanakaratne)

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Arnold Monday, 16 October 2017 03:23 PM

Free higher education is NOT a right, its a privilege done with a greatest injustice to hard working tax payers. The best thing to overcome this problem is to charge a fee for the universities and make these trouble makers work for their money. and education.

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