COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition walked out of parliament on Friday protesting what it called unfair impeachment proceedings against the country's chief justice and its party members left the select committee which is carrying out the investigation.
The opposition's reaction came a day after Shirani Bandaranayake, Sri Lanka's first female head of the Supreme Court, withdrew from the impeachment process because, her lawyers said, she had lost faith in the proceedings.
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