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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It’s only going to get worse as things get worse and worse. Food prices, gasoline going through the roof with record prices, every danged thing you buy now, since ole Braindead Joe came into the office has gone through the roof. Never has one president destroyed the economy and everything else as ole Braindead has. I never thought I would see the day that Jimmy Carter was not the worst performing president this Republic has ever had. Carter, the Klinton’s, Obammy, and a few others.
Has Liz Cheney stepped up to the plate and asked to be on their Insurrection Investigation Committee yet??
So the military ship had fuel.
I wonder why our leaders think the outcome for them will be any different here?
They are clearly orchestrating a similar scenario.
Because they know that the masses will starve and that they too can leave like the SL president did.
It will be a horror.
Not their horror.
Let’s hope this isn’t what the elites, one or more Deep States, want.
funny schwab didnt mention anything about eating
and he left off the most important part...OR ELSE!!
Where are the homes of Biden, Pelosi, McConnell, Romney etc etc?
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