The state of emergency has been decreed and the president, Gobaya Rajapaksa, who intends to remain in power, calls the opposition to the rally.
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The Sri Lankans have partly won. The Government of Colombo has fully resigned on Sunday, April 3, with the exception of the two heads of the executive, the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and the Prime Minister, his brother Mahinda, who try to keep up at the helm. a ship in perdition. The head of state calls on the opposition to join a union government. The pearl of the Indian Ocean looks like Titanic.
The island of 22 million inhabitants lives an unprecedented economic and financial crisis by its magnitude and gravity. After months of shortages, cuts of electricity and galloping inflation, the anger of the Sri Lankan exploded when, for the second time, they tried to invade on the night of March 31 at 1 April The residence of the president in the suburbs of Colombo to claim the resignation of the Head of State. The police rejected the crowd with water guns and tear gas. About fifty people were arrested. The climate has become insurrection.
To stop new events forecast throughout the country, the government has decreed the state of emergency on the April 1, ordered a covers of thirty-six hours and given to the The army of extended powers so that it can provide public order, stop and hold people without a warrant. Social Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Viber and the YouTube platform have been suspended Sunday, until the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission considers that the Ministry of Defense did not have the power to impose such censorship.
Despite the prohibition to go out, to be on the public road, in a park, in a train or by the sea, unless written authorization from the authorities, the Sri Lankans continued Sunday to protest on the street, Like the opposition.
Decisions on the wrong time
The President of the Republic has attempted to reduce these protests to a “conspiracy” by “extremist forces calling for an Arab spring”, but the anger of the Sri Lankan is much deeper. The decline in tourism attendance due to the CVIV-19 epidemic, the reduction in Diaspora’s revenue transfers during the health crisis and decisions taken completely against the government, such as the decline in VAT and the removal of Several other taxes, seized the crates of a state that crumbles under an external debt of $ 51 billion (46 billion euros).
The Sri Lanka no longer has any exchange reserves and dollars to import the property necessary for the operation of the island. The country, strongly dependent, lacks everything and lives at the rhythm of the shortages and cuts of electricity since February. There is no more gas, more gas, more medicines, the shelves of food stores are empty, and inflation beats each month records – 17.5% in February, 18.7% in March. The transportation of goods and people across the country is seriously disturbed.
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