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.
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Pakistan has nukes.
There is nobody more dangerous than someone who has nothing to lose!
Pay attention DC. Stop the hunger game now!
What happened to “you will own nothing and be happy”???
However, they do appear to be protesting more effectively than anything we ever do in the US.
so-called “green” agricultural methods are indistinguishable from the ag methods first used during the New Stone Age:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/
Well, it =was= a peaceful and stable Muslim country (most are) but gross government corruption and incompetence have tipped it into well, I’m gonna go ahead and say -a Libya-style meltdown. But it will be faster because the nation is much smaller and an island.
It’s going to be bad.
Will wait for Cheney and kinzinger to announce July 9th hearings note to dems this is what a real insurrection looks like not grannies taking selfies
Seems as if citizens of both Holland and Sri Lanka know how to make their voices heard when government oppression and government incompetence go too far...
Glad we (in the U.S.) don’t have to face those problems...🙄
Holland and Germany should take note.
CNN reports that it was "A FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTEST".
JUST IN Footage of Sri Lanka’s President fleeing on military ship from Colombo harbor
This is the result of virtue signaling to the Green Aholes.
Up against the wall and shoot.
There’s probably a bunker already in Brussels at the NATO HQ. I know that there is a bunker with a huge vault like door in the NATO Military HQ in Mons. I’ve been in it.
Beginning stages of a revolution. To be followed by the Reign of Terror, imposition of an autarchic state under a dictator, and multiple purges, famines, etc. until order is restored and resources and population are brought back into balance.
Another NATO leader in trouble.
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1939353.html
Date-rape drugs wreck German chancellor’s summer bash
9 women filed complaints.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg said we should look to foreign countries for new ways of doing things here. Hmmmm....
On April 26, 2021, the president of Sri Lanka imposed a sweeping ban on all chemical fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. One year later, the former president is in exile after destroying the country’s agriculture and the nation’s economy.
Nah, just another mostly-peaceful protest.
“JUST IN Footage of Sri Lanka’s President fleeing on military ship from Colombo harbor”
well, the big cheese got away but there’s plenty of assistant cheeses remaining to decorate lamp poles with ...
I hope they go get him now.
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