Sri Lankan protesters stormed the president's official residence, forcing his resignation after months of economic crisis and resource shortages.
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The speaker of Sri Lanka's Parliament says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to resign as of Wednesday. Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said in a televised statement Saturday that he informed Rajapaksa of a decision taken at a meeting of Parliamentary party leaders requesting he leave office, and he agreed.
However, Rajapaksa will remain as president until Wednesday to ensure a smooth transfer of power, Abeywardena added. The announcement came hours after protesters stormed the president's official residence to vent their anger over the country's severe economic crisis.
Protesters also broke into the prime minister's private residence and set it on fire fire hours after he said he would resign when a new government is formed, in the biggest day of angry demonstrations that also saw crowds storming the president's home and office.
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Vcs Têm todo meu Respeito, Deus Pátria e Família!!!
SELVA!!!
May ALL These People Looking For Freedom Get It . Prayers Your Way May God Give You’ll Strength To Stay Safe 🙏🙏🙏🙏
If God existed,you wouldnt need prayers. God would already know what people need. Am I wrong?
The pool party 💕
I love these people…..
My condolences to the millions of Sri Lankans who lost their sea ports, dignity and a government
and now become *debt trap victims* of the Chinese🇨🇳 regime.
– In particular, Sri Lankan couldn’t repay their high interest debt of the Chinese “BRI project”, China took their Colombo sea port for 99 years and blocked the nation’s imports of necessities.
Feel sorry for yourself. They don’t need your empty bs sympathy. They did what was best for them at that moment. Pray for Japan or Taiwan.
@Laughing Hyena Japan, India, or China are good chooses to takeover
Sri Lankans now must cancel all debts and Colombo port leases with China🇨🇳.
Just awesome
Bravo Sri Lankan people! Take your country back from the wef.
It’s beautiful to see this happening around the world, everyone is getting fed up with their incompetent governments. We should be doing likewise.
Hold that proverbial beer, it’s coming around!
Too bad the Sri Lankan military hardly exists.
Can’t say the same for some “other” countries. You don’t want to end up like those 120 people in Venezuela 5 years ago now do you?
Why isnt this being called an insurrection?
This is what happens when you let people go hangry.
Developing countries are experiencing devastating food shortages and annihilated economies.
This is what happens when you shutdown the global economy for a bad flu season. The sad part is, these people still think they’re the good guys.
Not a single, educated word in this entire comment.
This has more to do with Sri Lanka borrowing more than what they could feasibly pay off. They literally got debt trapped and the people overthrowing the government could end up with a new government that is significantly worse and more authoritarian.
@Misaka 10032
Please…. Sri Lanka is Basically AOC land and developing countries are seeing this exact same crisis.
I hope Brandon is paying attention…oh wait never mind he doesn’t even know where he is right now. end quote
Americans will call this “Rioters”.
Make Sri Lanka Great Again.
This is what we need all over the world, rise like lions after slumber, in unvanquishable number
Good for those people. Keep up the good fight. Eventually we will all have to choose to fight.
This is what happens when leaders line their own pocket instead of looking out for the people
Wait so the united states capital was just a protest, not an insurrection 😀
God Bless The People Of Sri Lanka.❤️🙏
My Father Loved Sri Lanka Especially Sigiriya. I Pray For A Bright Future For Sri Lanka. I Can Only Hope Russian Oil Can Help Fuel Its Bright Flames…