{"id":161454,"date":"2016-04-29T02:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=161454"},"modified":"2016-04-30T00:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T19:10:59","slug":"kill-us-if-you-can-but-we-wont-stop-our-fight-iusf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/kill-us-if-you-can-but-we-wont-stop-our-fight-iusf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill Us If You Can, But We Won\u2019t Stop Our Fight: IUSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convener of the Inter University Students&#8217; Federation (IUSF), Lahiru Weerasekera on Thursday warned the government that they will continue their fight to safeguard the country\u2019s free education, and if the government want they can even resort to \u2018killing them.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media soon after hundreds of students were fired with tear gas in Fort, Weerasekera claimed that the tear gas was not fired with the intention of dispersing them, but was fired with the intention to harm the students who were protesting against a private medical university in Malabe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are done talking, we will continue our fight. 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