Ranil denounces ‘insurgents’, axes special flag

Colombo, July 15 (UNI) Sri Lanka’s Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday accused “insur- gents” of infiltrating the anti-government protests plaguing the country and of trying to create unrest in the island nation next week. In a televised speech soon after he was formally sworn in as the Acting President.

Wickremesinghe also said that he had done away with the President’s flag and the long-standing custom of ad- dressing the Head of State as “His Excellency”.