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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10305266" data-attributes="member: 92282">UPDATE:Troops in full-battle dress took up positions along the funeral route  and surrounded a Catholic church where a service was held for slain  factory worker Roshen Ratnasekera before burial.Officials said a  local magistrate had issued an order banning any political speeches at  the funeral. The authorities had feared that opposition political  parties could use the police killing to fuel anti-government protests.Mourning  factory workers were also prevented from entering the area in buses in a  bid to prevent organised gatherings, officials said.Sri Lanka is  ruled under a state of emergency which allows the deployment of troops  to maintain law and order and gives authorities the legal power to crack  down on what they believe to be anti-state activities.Troops were also deployed to shift his coffin to a church ahead of schedule."The  cortege was supposed to leave the home in the afternoon but troops came  in and removed the coffin during the morning," a witness told AFP from  the victim's home outside the capital Colombo.Heavily-armed  troops remained deployed at a nearby free trade zone where Ratnasekera  was shot and wounded on Monday along with over 150 men and women. He  died at a hospital on Wednesday.On Friday, hundreds of Buddhist  monks marched to President Mahinda Rajapakse's tightly guarded official  residence in Colombo and staged a sit-down demonstration demanding  action over the police firing at protesting workers.The  government had proposed taking over the compulsory savings of workers in  the private sector and paying them a smaller than expected state  pension after retirement, but on Thursday made a formal announcement  withdrawing the bill.The country's chief of police,  Inspector-General Mahinda Balasuriya, quit on Wednesday, taking  responsibility for the use of live ammunition.Sri Lanka's main opposition political parties have blamed the government for the violence.AFP</blockquote>

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