#Sri Lanka Economic Crisis

[hussyknee]

MY PEOPLE STORMING THE SRI LANKAN PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT, THROUGH TEAR GAS AND WALLS OF COPS IN RIOT GEAR AND BUSTING DOWN THE BARRICADES.

MASSIVE PROTESTS IN EVERY PART OF THE ISLAND. OUR COUNTRY BARELY HAS ANY FUEL LEFT, SO THEY GOT HERE ON FOOT AND BICYCLES FOR MILES AND MILES, HANGING OFF TRAINS AND LORRIES AND CLINGING TO THE ROOFS OF BUSES. THEY TOOK THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE. GOTA HAS FLED!!

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[courtneyhurrell]

Tuk tuk drivers waiting in line for fuel. Sometimes for 4 hrs.

[sylvia-de-silva]

The Devil You Know

Let this country die. Its people starve in the streets. Its children and old wither in their sickbeds. Pestilence and disease ravage it. forests razed, seas eat into the land, all hope of the future snuffed; the devil swallow it whole.

This is not the curse of the unavenged dead. Not the curse of the souls we sold for bread and circuses. The young we condemned to unmarked graves. The mothers whose truth we left buried in the soil, so nothing could ever grow there.

This is the end we wrote with our own hand. The grinning death we wrought.

Perhaps it is better this way. We were always going to betray them once we had gasoline to drink, trickling down our bellies. We were always going to push the desperate hoardes The children struggling to school, hungry, barefoot; the walking wounded bleeding for answers, back into the yawning hole, apologetic all the way down.

The Dollar Bahiravaya* willed it for the sins of our kings. What to do ithing**. But don't worry it is only a temporary death, until things improve. Okay? Now stop blocking traffic and get out of the way.

Later, we will say, we were tricked. Later, we will say, we were conned. True, we sold our grandmother for half a tank of gas but it turned out to be rancid juice and broke the engine. Now here we are, demanding a refund once more.

Seventy-four years we have made a blood price of existence

Democracy a trolley problem. Everything works perfectly as long as the levers work as they should Exact the collateral only according to our ruling. The consent of the governed.

Tell me– how many times can we look the devil in the face and invite him insidejust because it was the one we knew? How many times can we pawn the future before it is beyond redemption? But then, this is always the way. Justice demands a far too exorbitant price when stability asks only for our souls.

*Bahiravaya - supernatural guardian of treasure in Sinhalese lore, who demands a sacrifice in exchange for access

**Ithing - Sinhalese figure of speech that makes a phrase rhetorical e.g: "What to do, ithing" -> "what can you do, eh?"

[krazyshoppy]

गोटाबाया राजपक्षे सिंगापुर भागे तो एक्शन में सुप्रीम कोर्ट, भाईयों के देश छोड़ने पर लगाई रोक

गोटाबाया राजपक्षे सिंगापुर भागे तो एक्शन में सुप्रीम कोर्ट, भाईयों के देश छोड़ने पर लगाई��रोक

Sri Lanka Supreme Court Latest Order: श्रीलंका के सुप्रीम कोर्ट (Sri Lanka Supreme Court) ने आज एक अंतरिम आदेश जारी करते हुए पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री महिंदा राजपक्षे और पूर्व मंत्री बेसिल राजपक्षे को अदालत की इजाजत के बिना 28 जुलाई तक देश छोड़ने से रोका दिया है. श्रीलंका के डेली मिरर ने इस संबंध में जानकारी शेयर की है. इससे पहले मंगलवार को श्रीलंका के सुप्रीम कोर्ट में याचिका दाखिल की गई थी, जिसमें…

[breaking-news-portal]

When the protesters entered the President's house, they got a huge amount! People were seen counting notes in the viral video

When the protesters entered the President’s house, they got a huge amount! People were seen counting notes in the viral video

Sri Lanka Political Crisis: Anti-government protesters who stormed the official residence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka claimed to have recovered Rs 1.78 crore from inside the President’s house. In a video that has surfaced on social media, protesters are seen counting the recovered currency notes. The protesters said they received 1,78,50,000 Sri Lankan rupees at the President’s…

[rudrjobdesk]

श्रीलंका के पीएम आवास में कोई खेल रहा कैरम तो कोई बना रहा खाना, प्रदर्शनकारियों के वीडियो आए सामने

श्रीलंका के पीएम आवास में कोई खेल रहा कैरम तो कोई बना रहा खाना, प्रदर्शनकारियों के वीडियो आए सामने

Image Source : ANI Visuals from inside of Sri Lanka’s PM residence Sri Lanka Crisis: श्रीलंका में राष्ट्रपति राजपक्षे के इस्तीफे की मांग करते हुए शनिवार को प्रदर्शनकारियों ने मध्य कोलंबो के कड़ी सुरक्षा वाले फोर्ट इलाके में राष्ट्रपति के आधिकारिक आवास में धावा बोल दिया था। आक्रोशित प्रदर्शनकारियों के एक समूह ने शनिवार को कैम्ब्रिज प्लेस स्थित विक्रमसिंघे के आवास में घुस गए थे। आज प्रधानमंत्री…

[hussyknee]

Sri Lankan protestors are built different. 😂😂😂

[Video description: Facebook video showing a scene of complete chaos and screaming, suffused in clouds of tear gas. A young protestor in shorts with a backpack picks a smoking tear gas cannister off the ground and strides with it along a wall of iron bars, holding out the billowing stream of gas at the cops assembled on the other side. Someone behind the camera eggs him on in Sinhala. The kid places the emptied cannister under a hedge behind a cop in riot gear and runs. The camera pans back to see the canninister thrown high into the air, sailing into a clump of trees in the park beyond./VD]

(PSA: do NOT pick up tear gas cannisters, they are searing hot!)

[natalia-romanovas-world]

So if you haven't noticed, my beautiful country, Sri Lanka had managed to oust the President and the Prime Minister from a massive protest against the government yesterday. This comes after 90 days of constant protesting, people suiciding, people dropping dead at fuel and gas queues and children and babies being dead because essential medicines are not available. The Presidential mansion and Presidential office are occupied by citizens for the first time in our history. I'd say as a proud Sri Lankan, this is what any politician would get if they try to divide and rule. Glory to the revolution! Victory to us! ❤🇱🇰

[spilledthoughtsink1981]

Are we second Zimbabwe

[krazyshoppy]

आर्थिक संकट के बीच श्रीलंका को मिलेगा नया राष्ट्रपति, 20 जुलाई को होगा चुनाव

आर्थिक संकट के बीच श्रीलंका को मिलेगा नया राष्ट्रपति, 20 जुलाई को होगा चुनाव

Sri New President: श्रीलंका में आर्थिक संकट को लेकर सरकार के खिलाफ मचे बवाल के बाद राष्ट्रपति गोटाबाया राजपक्षे (Gotabaya Rajapaksa) ने 13 जुलाई को इस्तीफा देने की घोषणा की थी. अब श्रीलंका की संसद (Sri Lankan Parliament) 20 जुलाई को नए राष्ट्रपति का चुनाव करेगी, जो गोटाबाया राजपक्षे का स्थान लेंगे. संसद के अध्यक्ष महिंदा यापा अभयवर्धने ने सोमवार को इसकी घोषणा की. ये फैसला आज सभी दलों के नेताओं की…

[ravinathan]

Crisis In Sri Lanka

What do you think about the future of Sri Lanka?

[indizombie]

Sri Lanka is in the midst of an economic crisis. With food prices soaring and sellers unable to pass on the costs to customers who will not pay more than a few rupees for street food, many isso vade sellers have seen their profits decrease. While most will turn to alternative means of income, some vow to remain. Mani, a vade seller on Galle Face, has watched the transformation of Colombo from small city to restless capital from behind his street food cart since 1965. "I was just 13 years old when I started making isso vade at home and selling them to support my family. Now, once expenses are considered, we make only a small profit each month. But I would never consider another trade because if I'm not on Galle Face, my customers will not eat anywhere else. This is something to be proud of," he told me.

Demi Perera, ‘Isso vade: The spicy snack that unites Sri Lanka’, BBC

[rudrjobdesk]

राष्ट्रपति गोटाबाया राजपक्षे की लोकेशन का पता लगा, इस जगह से कर रहे निगरानी

राष्ट्रपति गोटाबाया राजपक्षे की लोकेशन का पता लगा, इस जगह से कर रहे निगरानी

Image Source : AP/PTI FILE Gotabaya Rajapaksa Highlights राष्ट्रपति गोटाबाया राजपक्षे की लोकेशन समंदर में मिली किसी देश की सीमा में नहीं गए गोटाबाया राजपक्षे नेवी शिप से हालात मॉनीटर कर रहे हैं गोटाबाया राजपक्षे Sri Lanka Crisis: भारत का पड़ोसी देश श्रीलंका विद्रोह की आग में झुलस रहा है। प्रदर्शनकारियों ने राष्ट्रपति गोटाबाया राजपक्षे (Gotabaya Rajapaksa) के आधिकारिक आवास पर कब्जा कर लिया है,…

[hussyknee]

It has been A Day for the Sri Lankan Revolution, friends. Nobody has yet been ousted, with the PM and President still stalling, even though the former's house is in flames and the latter is hiding on a boat. There's miles to go before any of us can sleep, because political battles are all wars of attrition, and this one could still go either way.

But I'm going to leave you with this video of protestors enjoying the pool in our President's official mansion.

Desperation, fury and slow starvation propelled most of them to journey for miles on foot, or crammed cheek to jowl in lorries amidst the scorching heat, fight through a sea of police and Army firing tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets, bring down the barricades with their bare hands and scale the gates. The President had fled and the mansion long empty by the time they got there, but they made full use of the whole house, especially the kitchens which had been stocked with cooking gas, oil, meat and luxury foods that most of our people have gone without for so long. They'd had a grand communal fry-up and set up to watch the cricket match in the TV lounge.

(Yes that one dude is showering in the bathroom 😂😂😂)

Zero fighting or property damage. Sometimes non-violence is the most fun option. 🇱🇰💫❤️🤗 අරගලයට ජය! Victory to the struggle!