Police take up position behind a metal barrier as students from a group of universities hold a puppet of Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the barrier during a protest in Colombo October 28, 2009. The Inter-university Students Union staged a protest campaign calling for the stop of what they call the privatisation of education by the government and to stop private institutions having the power to award degrees. REUTERS/Stringer
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