Yesterday thousands of protesters stormed the home of the Sri Lankan president, who fled the country.
It sinks into chaos Sri Lanka. Protesters set on fire at the Prime Minister’s residence Ranil Wickremesinghe, as reported by the Associated Press. According to the prime minister’s office, protesters stormed his home in Colombo. It is not clear whether Wickremesinghe was inside his home at the time of the break-in.
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PM Ranil Wickramasinghe’s residence is on fire. #ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests pic.twitter.com/nKiBEqFCxV
— Marlon Ariyasinghe (@exfrotezter) July 9, 2022
Sri Lanka: Protesters have set Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence on fire. A few hours back he announced he will be resigning as the PM.#SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaProtests pic.twitter.com/VBdXIMcDao
— Annu Kaushik (@AnnuKaushik253) July 9, 2022
Thousands of protesters also stormed the home of the Sri Lankan president yesterday. Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The president fled the country.
Sri Lanka is suffering from the worst economic crisis in its history. It is faced with a huge shortage of foreign exchange, which does not allow it to import sufficient quantities of food, fuel, medicine and other necessary goods.
The island of 22 million inhabitants, near India, has been living for months at the rate of daily power outages, endless queues at petrol stations, food rationing, record inflation which has reached 70%.
Peaceful protests for several weeks have centered on the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, whom many citizens, even as his former supporters, accuse of mismanagement.
After the outbreak of the protests, all members of the Rajapaksa family who participated in the government resigned, with the exception of the country’s president.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ignored calls to step down and in May, after the resignation of his prime minister and brother Mahinda, he appointed his rival Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister.
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