Posted on 03/31/2022 5:10:59 PM PDT by dynachrome
COLOMBO, April 1 (Reuters) - Police imposed an overnight curfew in several parts of Sri Lanka's main city of Colombo early on Friday after protests over the government's handling of the country's worst economic crisis in decades turned violent, an official said.
Hundreds of protesters gathered near President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's private residence in a Colombo suburb late on Thursday and were broken up by police using tear gas and water cannons, a Reuters witness said.
Amal Edirimanne, a senior superintendent of police, said a curfew had been imposed in four police divisions of Colombo, the country's commercial capital.
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They went ‘green’ and are paying for it.
“Retail inflation hit 18.7% in March over the same period a year ago, the statistics department said on Thursday. Food inflation reached 30.2% in March, partly driven by a currency devaluation and last year’s ban on chemical fertilisers that was later reversed.”
Nothing to see here, just Ceylon...
“Economic crisis” coming to our shores soon?
“last year’s ban on chemical fertilisers”
Really? Were they just going to use fish waste?
"Tiny Sri Lanka is struggling through an economic crisis that is having terrible repercussions for its economy, as a brutal energy crisis threatens to blossom into shortages of food and other essential goods."
It can’t happen here, right?/s
“just going to use fish waste?”
Night soil.
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