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- When
- 2011
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 7.00° N, 81.00° E
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2011 Sri Lanka worker protests
Series of worker protests against the Sri Lankan government in 2011
The 2011 Sri Lanka worker protests were a series of non-violent and later violent protests involving workers from the Free Trade Zones (FTZ) of Sri Lanka against the central government, which lasted for two weeks between 24 May and 6 June 2011. Approximately 250,000 workers took part in the protest against the Sri Lankan government's Private Sector Pension Bill (PSBP).
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