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Jayathma Wickramanayake, the current United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, addressing a youth parliament in Sri Lanka. August 2013. Image via Wikipedia by Sankachandima. CC BY SA 4.0 This post originally appeared in Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website in Sri Lanka. An edited version is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. Once known as being the best fed, most educated and healthy people in South Asia, Sri Lankans are facing the bleak prospect of a full-blown economic crisis) that will dramatically push back hard-won social gain…