Anti SAITM protest teargassed

25 January 2018 06:52 pm

Police fired teargas and used water cannons to disperse the protest march carried out by the Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) and the Parents' Union of the Medical Students (PUMS) at the Kollupitiya junction today against the government’s move to convert the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) into the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). Pix by Nisal Baduge