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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10278846" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lankan workers protested in the capital Wednesday to demand  withdrawal of a new pension proposal and to condemn a crackdown against  an earlier protest.Traffic was blocked at a key business district  as more than 1,000 workers shouted slogans and carried placards that  read: "Govt. protects human rights by attacking trade unions," ''Condemn  attack on workers" and "Is the govt. policy to attack workers?"The  demonstrators also urged the government to arrest police officers who  shot workers at a protest Monday. Police said they had to use tear gas  and guns to break up unruly protesters. Some 200 workers and policemen  were wounded.Trade unions and other critics say the government's  pension proposal for private-sector employees would benefit workers less  than the government claims it would. The government suspended the plan  temporarily amid the rising protests, but its opponents want it  abandoned.Saman Rathnapriya, a trade unionist, urged the  government to safeguard the rights of the workers and also to pay  compensation to the workers wounded in the police assault."The  government should take the responsibility for this unfortunate incident,  and we urge the authorities to take action against those who ordered to  attack workers," he added.The government decided Monday to  temporary suspend the proposed pension scheme and appointed a retired  supreme court judge to investigate the crackdown and submit a  comprehensive report within five days.Monday's clash hit Sri  Lanka's main free-trade zone, where many foreign investors run garment  factories that are the island's leading foreign exchange earner. That  could set back the government's efforts to lure investment to a country  just recovering after a 26-year-old civil war ended in 2009.AP</blockquote>

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