Marlon Ariyasinghe Profile picture
PhD student in Performance Studies @Stanford @StanfordTAPS. Former journalist/editor @himalistan.#Author of Froteztology (2011). he/him

Apr 7, 2022, 6 tweets

A weird thing happened near Liberty protest. It was peaceful until a bunch of guys walked out of nowhere and started pushing and shoving the police. They were aggressive. The same ones you see below👇🏽
They were calling other protesters to join in.
#ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests

Eventually, when they saw people weren’t joining in they stopped. And went to the corner and started speaking to this woman. One of the them was hurt. They were calling her ‘Madam’. I saw this Madam earlier as well.
#ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests

Here she instructs them not to attack the police. Then she says ´වැඩේ හරිනේ. හරිනේ වැඩේ. එච්චරයි ඔනේ. අපි කරන්න ගිය/ආපු, වැඩේ හරිගියා'
A supporter says: 'අපේ රාඡකාරිය අපි කරනවනේ'
She leaves. Supporters cheer ´ඡය වේවා'.
#SriLankaProtests

Is this Dulanjali Premadasa? The sister of Sajith Premadasa?

I am not making any accusations, just posing a question.

Here is an earlier video of them being very aggressive and prompting the other protesters. There were two lines of protesters with the goons infront and the others at a distance.

If you check out the video in the QT, you will see the same people. They were the ones who parachuted last night to escalate tension. While political elements are invariably present at any protest, peaceful protesters may need to vigilant about these faces.

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