Posted on 07/09/2022 10:14:21 AM PDT by Morgana
Thousands of protesters have stormed the prime minster's house in the capital of Colombo and set it on fire today, hours after he said he would resign when a new government is formed, in the biggest day of angry demonstrations on Saturday that also saw crowds storming the president's home and office.
Protesters have set the Prime Minister's residence on fire and broken into the President's home, hours after the Prime Minister he said he would resign over a worsening economic crisis. In videos on social media, red smoke can be seen rising into the sky, as flames take hold.
The office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the protesters forced their way into his Colombo home on Saturday evening. It's not immediately clear if he was inside at the time of the attack. He said earlier that he will resign only when all parties have agreed on a new government.
He was responding to a call by leaders of political parties represented in Parliament that he and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa quit, after tens of thousands of people trooped to the capital to vent their fury at the leaders they hold responsible for the nation's worst economic and political crisis.
'Today in this country we have a fuel crisis, a food shortage, we have the head of the World Food Program coming here and we have several matters to discuss with the IMF. Therefore, if this government leaves there should be another government,' he said.
But he made it clear he will not step down before a new government is formed, angering crowds that moved near his home to force him to leave office immediately.
Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, also swam in the presidential swimming pool, video footage from local TV news NewsFirst channel showed.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Coup! Insurrection! Attack on the Capitol!
A revolution ain’t gonna help much.
House going up in flames fast
VIDEO: Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe house set on fire by protesters
#SriLanka
https://rumble.com/v1bnj4t-sri-lankan-pm-ranil-wickremesinghe-house-set-on-fire-by-protesters.html?mref=3z0st&mrefc=7
I’m sure ol Schwabbie will have a new president set to go. Bench player, you’re up!
Speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament to become country’s new president, head of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress party says
For how long?
Part of the unfolding disaster was the government’s mandatory org ic agriculture program. It didn’t go as planned and grave food shortages have resulted
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/
Organic. Sorry
:-)
Coup! Insurrection! Attack on the Capitol!
Cheney and Schiff want to know where Trump was.....
BRIEF
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The European Union will build an eight million euro secure bunker in Brussels so that EU leaders can discuss classified information without Russian or other spies. This is evidenced by the EU memorandum describing the project, writes EUobserver. The room will be disconnected from the Internet, but will be equipped with internal conference technology with a large screen and microphones connected to booths for 30 interpreters. Both the meeting room and the booths will be enclosed in a NATO-certified insulating frame to “reduce the risk of exploitation of electromagnetic pulse emissions” that are generated by IT screens and wires. These signals can be intercepted remotely.
I guess the watermelon Marxists thought that the citizens would just quietly starve. This will be repeated worldwide and the architects of this planned genocide need to be tried and hung from trees like apples.
Universal Truth:
Hungry starving people are angry people
Hungry and angry people oppose the people failing them.
not mention that this was caused because this government outlawed use of imported synthetic fertilizer and forced ALL domestic agriculture to use “natural” methods instead, you know, to “go green” AND save money ... the resulting crop failures subsequently depleted foreign reserves when they had to be used to buy imported food (instead of fertilizer) ... consequently, no foreign reserves remained to import anything else, including and especially FOSSIL FUEL ENERGY ... “Go Green, Commit National Suicide” ...
I think the Democrats should convene a 7/8 Committee to investigate this obviously Trump-inspired insurrection.
Was there a heavy smell of saffron?
I think Joey may be experiencing this soon. 😏
But at least the misery is shared with the elites who thought they were above it.
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