Supporters of Sri Lanka’s government have brought a city in the country’s former civil war zone to a shutdown to protest a US-sponsored resolution at the UN Human Rights Council on alleged war crimes.Shops, banks and government offices were closed Thursday in the eastern city of Trincomalee.Around 3,000 people walked in a protest march across the city, condemning the resolution and demanding that it be halted.They also burned effigies of President Barack Obama and UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay.
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