At the end of a day of very violent clashes on the island of the Indian Ocean, the Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, presented his resignation.
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After two months of uninterrupted demonstrations, and at the end of a completely chaotic day, Prime Minister Sri Lankais, Mahinda Rajapaka, resigned on Monday May 9. His government was dissolved.
The supporters of the power had organized the capital, the capital, a punitive action against the opponents of the regime, who claim the departure of the Rajapaksa brothers – President Gotabaya and Prime Minister Mahinda -, judged responsible for an economic crisis and financial of an unprecedented scale. In an attempt to regain control, President Rajapaksa had decreed, on May 7, the state of emergency, for the second time in five weeks, and deployed soldiers in police reinforcement.
In the morning, thousands of professional supporters armed with sticks and batons have dismembered the camp of opponents installed since April 9 in Galle Face, along the sea and in front of the presidency. The police also fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse the demonstrators, before declaring an immediate and indefinite duration in the whole island.
The clashes left five people dead and more than 180 injured and continued long after the Prime Minister’s resignation. Colombo had guerrilla air on Monday. Shots have been fired since the presidency after the attempted demonstrators to drive the entrance gate and burn down a truck parked in front.
a family clan in power
In the south of the island, a coleted crowd RE also attacked and completely destroyed the controversial Rajapaka museum in the ancestral village of the family. Residences, properties, cars belonging to former ministers or deputies have been burned. In Nittambuwa, about fifty kilometers north of the capital, a deputy for the ruling party, Amarakeerthi Athokorala, committed suicide after opening fire on two anti -government demonstrators who blocked his car.
Before becoming Prime Minister, in 2019, Mahinda Rajapaksa, 76, had held the post of president from 2005 to 2015 and carries a heavy responsibility in the current crisis of this country of 22 million inhabitants, considered as a Tourist paradise. It was he who heavily in debt Sri Lanka in infrastructure projects carried out as part of the great Chinese Silk Road project (“Roa and Belt”) whose usefulness has not been demonstrated. “I resign with immediate effect so that you can appoint a multipartite government to get the country out of the current economic crisis,” he announced on Twitter.
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