Sri Lankan protest site gets Christmas carnival makeover


COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military is holding a Christmas carnival at the seafront site of an anti-government protest that forced the country's previous president to flee and quit office earlier this year.

Thousands marched in Sri Lanka's largest city and set up a tented protest camp in April amid anger at the government's handling of a severe economic crisis. Protesters named the site "Gota Go Gama", a dig at former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who was forced to resign in July.

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