With their cash-strapped economy still adrift, Sri Lankans say their struggle has not ended.
"Any form of protest is controlled in Sri Lanka right now," says Shreen Saroor, a local human rights campaigner. "He has kept his powers well intact to do what he needs to do and in case he needs to call on the military to control the country."
Parliament "totally betrayed" the people when they voted in Mr Wickremesinghe as president, he says, referring to the former six-time prime minister as "another culprit who had been engaged with the corrupt system". When the pandemic arrived, he claims, villagers fell ill in droves with no ability to socially distance inside their homes and no access to vaccines - and with schools shut, their children suffered with no prospect of remote learning.
Camped opposite the Presidential Secretariat, the little community spawned rallies, candlelight vigils, stage dramas and a huge library of donated books, all focused on broadening political literacy. With many of its key figures now behind bars, facing legal action or under regular surveillance, the so-called "aragalaya" - or people's struggle in Sinhala - has largely gone silent.
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