Colombo (LNW): The Medical Faculty Student’s Union of the University of Colombo staged a protest this (09) afternoon at the Townhall Junction, Colombo demanding an end to the government’s attempt of privatising the medical degree.
Their slogans stood against the offering of medical degrees by private universities like Lyceum, NSBM, Gateway, SLIIT and Kotelawala Defence Academy.
As the protest was on the go, a heated exchange occurred between the protesters and the Police.
Symbolising the alleged end of free education, the protesters demonstrated an act in which they held a coffin, during which time the heated exchange between them and the Police occurred.
The Police took the coffin into their custody, and the protesters thereafter lit candles and continued their demonstration at the Lipton Circle for about an hour.
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