Colombo, Feb 4, 2025 (AFP) - Sri Lanka president vows to end island's 'corrupt' image

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2025-02-04

Sri Lanka's leftist president marked the anniversary of independence from Britain on Tuesday with a pledge to change the impoverished island nation's image as a "corrupt" country. Self-avowed Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake dispensed with the usual elaborate military pageantry of jet flyovers and horse parades to mark the 1948 handover of power. His government instead staged a scaled-down military march in keeping with his pledge to pare lavish......

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