Rights groups urge Sri Lanka not to use force on protesters

Human Rights Watch says government crackdown ‘sends a dangerous message to people’ while Amnesty calls it ‘shameful’.

International human rights groups have urged Sri Lanka’s new president to immediately order security forces to cease all unlawful use of force against protesters, who have been demonstrating over the country’s economic meltdown.

Armed troops and police arrived in trucks and buses on Friday to clear the main protest camp near the president’s official residence in…