Sri Lanka’s political turmoil is deepening.
Instead of resigning on Wednesday as promised, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to Singapore via the Maldives.
Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared a nationwide curfew.
Sri Lankans say these developments are unacceptable.
Is there a way out of the crisis to prevent a power vacuum?
Presenter: Dareen Abughaida
Guests:
Kabir Hashim – Sri Lankan opposition Member of Parliament and a former minister
Jehan Perera – Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka
Harshana Nanayakkara – lawyer and member of National People’s Power, an opposition coalition in Sri Lanka
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Any corrupt leaders will finally be booted out either through election or forcefully as seen here in Sri Lanka. Victory to the people of the wicked elite leaders.
"They can no longer divide us just to get our votes." That was a bit of an uplifting message at the end.
Their way out is to pay the $50 billion in debt they owe.
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Who should come from outside ??? Let them choose a person from themselves,they already know these economical problems n they have a chance to rule honestly their country…
Thank you Sri Lanka, for showing the world how what needs to be done, can be done; without too much violence whatsmore. It is also worth noting that the police and military were not exactly enthusiastic about suppressing the people. One assumes that the military and police had more empathy with the people than with the ruling elite; this is a critical component of any internal domestic regime change. Well done Sri Lanka; now the real work begins ie; putting in place a socio-economic form of governance and productivity that first and foremost works for the people. I wish you well and strongly advise that you closely watch the space called China, where after a mere 100 years, the practice has been almost perfected.
😍The European Union , USA and NATO should withdraw from the Ukraine war ; and hang Britain in the war . Then Russia should be able to protect Britain .The EU would benefit if Russia gave Britain a proper punishment .
They need to purge every single politician connected to this.
Going to IMF will destroy SL for good.
Only India and China have the money to help SL.
I fear nothing will change in SL in 5 years time.
It is a shame to Sri Lanka. This is a bad example as they have left a black mark on the country. You can’t trust them at all .
May this happen in Pakistan too 👈 as for current government….cz they have very poor policies for us….
Let's go on people. Enough is enough.
The Rajapaksa brothers and their cronies have repeatedly claimed that they did not commit any crime!
Why is Gotabaya Rajapaksa running away?
If he has done nothing wrong, he should return and prove that he is whiter than white!
He has fled to Singapore. In Singapore, many Tamils hold important positions, including the foreign minister!
CIA organized ?
Good show
ලේසි වෙන්නේ නෑ පුතේ මේ සැරේ.සමාජවාදී උන් කියන්නේ වේලක් කන්න නැතුව කුණු ගොඩවල් වලින් ඉදන් අහුලන් කන උන්.ලංකාවේ හිගන හැත්ත නියෝජනය කරන්නේ උන්.මුන් බන් කිසි විනයක් නැති,නීතියක් දන්නේ නැති,අදයාපනයක් නැති උන්.මුන් දරුනුයි මචන් මොකෝ මුන්ට මොලේ නෑනේ.මහ එකා ගහපන් කිව්වොත් අරුන් පුකෙන් බෙට්ට යන්න වැදුනත් ගහනවා.මුන්ට මචන් මොලේ නෑ.අතේ පිච්චිය නෑ.ඒක නිසා පට්ට තරහයි සල්ලි තියන උන් එක්ක.
දැන් මුන්ට ඕන වෙලා තියෙන්නේ සමාජවාදය රටට ගෙනල්ලා අන්න අර කියපු සල්ලි තියන අයගේ සල්ලි වලට බදු 200% හරි ගහලා ගන්න ඕන.ඔය වේස බල්ලෝ ඒකයි හැමදිස්සෙම සමානාත්මතාවය ඕන ගගා හැමිනෙන්නේ.මුන්ගේ මචන් සමාජවාදී ජාන වලින් එන දෙයක් තමා ගෙවල් ගිනි තියන ඒවා,බඩු හොරකම් කරන ඒවා,වාහන කුඩු කරන ඒවා එහෙම.මේ දවස් ටිකේ නම් ගෙවල් කීපයක්ම හානි කරලා බඩු අරන් තිබ්බා.තව මදි වෙලා අද රූපාවාහිනියට ගිහින් ඒකෙ බඩු හොරකම් කරලා ගිනි තියලා දාන්න.ඕවා සමාජවාදී ජාන වලින් සම්ප්රේශනය වෙනවා පරම්පරාවේන් පරම්පරාවට.
History should not be repeated again in Sri-lanka like this where a President robbed the funds and flee the country.Internationl community please donot give shelter to a corrupted and a criminal.All Sri-lankans are suffering without basic needs while he is still having a great time shopping at leasure.
Gotabaya is not one person he is the icon of our rights of democracy the truth is one of small terrorist team act like majority but they are small minority they only have 3%of votes these fascist team hijack the democracy of 52%,majority you everybody must understand this what happened in sri Lanka, President Gotabaya is real leader he didn't kill anyone and he didn't use minimum power that he can do easily using his athoritical power he left the presidency to stop this harmful situation Present Gotabaya is the most democrotical president according to history of Sri Lanka, international media must know this truth and don't lies to people of the world who don't know the reality that what happened in Sri Lanka.
A very good explanatory telecast 🙏
Dictator are ran away with suitcases full of dollar money 💸💰💸💰 and sold the country to China. Sri Lanka brother and family are ran away with luggage full of dollar money 🤑💰🤑💰
Sri Lanka could just default. It does not "have to" get outside help. Though that might be painful for a bit.
I think we should recognize Ranil V. Contributed to the this island. He came forth to save this sinking economy boat where others just pass the ball in-between green to red. He may not have brave to sat beside Kotta R. At parliament. Why Ranil Why Why?
ITS R. FAMILY F.D us.
ITS GOING TAKE LONG TIME.. BUT RANIL HAS GOT US. I KNOW YOU GOT THE THING TO BRING BACK US RANIL.
Ranil is a person who has got only 25000 votes. Lost so badly. The general population is fully aware of the games he has been playing and continues to play. Even the islandwide University teachers' association has asked Ranil to resign. However, he is using the loop holes in the system to creep in and help the Rajapaksha family.
The root cause of the economic and political turmoil is the unresolved national ethnic crisis that has been there for the last 75 years. It is a multiethnic and multicultural country. But the ruling power is grabbed by the Sinhala Buddhist community by constitution disregarding the equal rights of the Tamil speaking population. The rulers use Sinhala Buddhist supremacy ideology as a tool and misled the country by adopting corrupted practices in governance that has brought down the country bankrupt. If the Sinhala politicians agree to share the power with Tamil speaking community similar to what has been in practice in Switzerland this beautiful island will be a developed country within another 10 years. The ball is in the Sinhalese people's court to play carefully.
First of all, solve Arabian countries your disputes… Do not worry about our country sri lanka😠😠😠
Gotabaya oru ponnayan
THE FALL OF HUMANITY
THE FALL OF THE WORLD
THE BREAKDOWN
THE MELTDOWN
THE FAILURE OF HUMANS
BECAUSE HUMANS NEVER CARED WHAT WAS GOING ON AROUND THEM
ONLY CARED FOR THEMSELVES
BREAK MY HEART
AND THAT LEAD US TO THIS FALL
LONG LONG AGO THE ANGELS TOLD ME ABOUT THIS DAY
THEY CALLED IT THE MELTDOWN
THEY PREPARED MANY HUMANS FOR THIS DAY
THEY TOLD ME TO STOCK MY SHELVES WITH FOOD
AND NOW I SEE THE REASON WHY
GOVERMENTS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE JOINED TOGETHER ON A FORUM CALLED WEP
TO CREATE A NEW WORLD OF CONTROL
SLAVERY BASIACALLY
AND WE AS PEOPLE DONT HAVE THE INSIGHT TO SEE THERE PLOT
BUT I DO ONLY BACAUSE IT IS GIVEN TO ME BY FORCES WAY HIGHER WAY WAY HIGHER THAN HUMANITY
WE CAN STILL CHANGE THIS
HELP THE WORLD IF WE ALL STOP THE SELFISHNESS AND THINK ABOUT OTHERS
CARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE
DO THE WORK
LOOK ALL THESE THINGS UP
WEP NEW WORLD ORDER
GREAT RESET
WEPS 10 AMENDMENTS
FARMERS BEING RESTRICTED FROM FARMING
FOOD BEING BANNED FROM EXPORT
FOOD FACTORIES BEING BURNED DOWN OVER 35 OF THEM
HOW COVID STARTED AND PROBLEM AFTER PROBLEM JUST KEPT ON ARISING
ITS ALL AN ATACK ON OUR SOCIETY OUR CIVILIZATION
THE DARK OVERLOARDS
AGENDA IS RIGHT AT YOUR DOORSTEP
AND PEOPLE BEING IN FEAR 😱 ARE NOT SEEING THE CONSPIRACY OF THE FALL OF HUMANKIND
WE NEED TO JOIN HANDS TOGETHER JUST LIKE SRI LANKA DID
AND AWARENESS THE TRUTH SHOULD BE HEARD
SHOULD BE KNOWN
OR YOUR CHILDREN
THERE CHILDREN
WIL SUFFER
UNDER THE DARK OVERLOARDS
STINKY FEET
VOTE FOR PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
THIS IS GODS WORD
SAVE THE WORLD
BY LISTENING WITH A PURE HEART
AND VOTING FOR
PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
THE LIGHT THE HOPE
AWARENESS SECURITY
PRAISE THE LORD
GLORY OF GOD IS UPON YOU
JUST RECIEVE IT
LET IT FLOW IN
LETS TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK
PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
GREAT CHANGE WILL COME
YOU WILL BE SAVED BY GOD IF
RISE ABOVE THE LIES
THATS IT
RISE INTO THE AIR
ABOVE ALL LIES
I DID IT
NOW YOU MUST DO IT❤️
My love for you all is huge
Please love eachother like this
Gotabaya rajapasee is a good president. I really see he is honest wants this country to be better. he came to power in a really bad time too. when covid hits to this country he control it really well. don't forget that time country economy and foreign dollars even that time has shut down completely. also he needs to give stimulus money to people because of covid. people don't talk those now. when Russian war impact very hard to our country because our economy was already bad. some of the people who gave decisions were bad too. but I see he's taking actions to get better but Sri Lankan didn't support him . that is bad . when country in crisis Sri Lankan people needs to support to government too, " what can we do for our county too" instead of protesting " diyaw diyaw" but people did was protesting and creating thing called aragallaya and go against president gotabaya and this will effect Sri Lankan economy hard too. Also don't forget some organizations wants gotabaya to be failed in the beginning too they were jealous how he candle covid situation in Sri Lanka too. some people who doesn't like getabaya spreading social media " do not send dollars to Sri Lanka" so this will hurt our economy too. people including aragalaya spreading hate speeches of gotabaya on social media didn't support him. as a president he bring new people and try to get this country better but most people in aragallaya didn't gave him a chance. no matter what good decision gotabaya made aragallya people protest everything. I think aragallya people maybe don't want this county to be succed. they have personal hate, anger towards to this president and they did what ever action to kick him out of his presidency. I never supported aragallya from the beginning because I knew this will do more bad for county than good. I am happy I never support to it. Gotabaya should have stayed as his presidency. I am asking people in Sri Lanka to act wisely and patients and please don't act quick like protestors. please don't spread hate speeches . instead of spreading hate spread love and kindness and the truth.
Sri Lanka could and maybe should adopt a form of 'Socialism with Sri Lankan characteristics'; not far to the East close to one billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty and are now well on their way toward achieving a moderate prosperity, having adopted a form of 'Socialism with Chinese characteristics'; there are plenty of Marxist scholars in Sri Lanka, just ask them for their advice.
Ranil is a snake
The people over here do the same that promise you the moon and all we get is the price tag.our leaders is no different then yours.cro
India could have purchased cinnamon from srilankas 70000 acres plantation after banning toxic cheap cassia in 2016 unfortunately India is now worlds biggest importer of banned cassia thanks spice board it delayed sending letter to bann cassia by 7 long years
What about the Tamil problem and political prisoners. Start releasing the journalists detained for years without trials.
What a shame it took so long for the average Sri Lankan to respond accordingly to the endemic of governmental corruption that has existed for decades. An uprising should have been seen a LONG time ago before the financial nightmare witnessed currently was allowed to manifest.
system of gettin debts too bad for poor countries,