Colombo was theater, Saturday, April 9, a gigantic event asking the reversal of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
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The popular anger that shakes Sri Lanka overflows from all sides. Informed by social networks, thousands of protesters have converged all day on Saturday, April 9, to Galle Face, in Colombo. This crested district of the capital, where modern buildings and luxury hotels fall along the sea, not far from the presidential palace, is the symbol of the dependence of the island vis-à-vis China and its Farameter indebtedness. The debt amounts to $ 51 billion (€ 46.9 million) for this country of 22 million inhabitants.
Equipped with rudimentary equipment, national flags, pancarts cut in packaging cards, or simple sheets of paper, the protesters arrived from the beginning of the morning to brandish and shify along the road des slogans hostile to the President of the Republic whose resignation they claim. On the passage, the drivers responded by a Klaxon concert. “GOTA GO HOME”, “Sri Lanka needs leaders responsible”, “the country is not your private property”, “corrupt in prison”: the hostility of protesters, nourished by months of deprivation, aims GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA elected in 2019 after deadly attacks perpetrated against churches and hotels and attributed to the terrorist group Islamic State.
All the strata of the company
The Sri Lankans, traumatized, had given their fate in the hands of this man renowned for his ruthless operations against the tigers, during the civil war which, for twenty-six years, opposed the cinghala majority, essentially Buddhist. , to the separatist organization of the liberation tigers of EELAM TAMOUL (LTTE), mainly Hindu.
It had been presented as the man capable of meeting the safe and economic challenges facing the country. He installed a real family clan at the summit of the state, including his brother Mahinda, appointed Prime Minister. “I voted for him in 2019, testifies to a young milf, official, I regret him a lot, the country suffers because of his incapacity and his mistakes.”
At the end of the day, they were thousands to fill the road and esplanade along the sea. The massive protest movement now reaches all the strata of society, traders, tuk-tuks drivers, Students to artists, workers in the employers, who have been penalized for months by an unprecedented economic and financial crisis. The island is running out of everything, fuels, medicines, electricity. The inhabitants set up every day, crushed by a galloping inflation.
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