The economic crisis in Sri Lanka has seen a wave protest in the past month, with some even turned into violence in recent weeks. Although the protest was very peaceful, the police fatal fired a protester on April 19, and on several occasions had used tears and water cannons against protesters. The authorities have made many arrests and repeatedly dropped the curfew.
A video that made a round on social media and even showed a large group of people around the car allegedly belonging to a former minister and rolled it into the lake. The crowd managed to roll the vehicle to the side, throwing it into the water.
In the video posted by @imposter_itits a man was interviewed where he said “there is no gas, no fuel and where the drugs are important, and people suffer, people live with one meal a day.”
Sri Lanka faced the worst economic crisis since getting independence from Britain in 1948. This crisis is partly caused by a lack of foreign currencies, which means that the country is unable to pay the import of staple food and fuel, which leads to acute deficiencies and very high prices .
The political crisis was triggered at the end of March when people were injured by the cutting of long power and important shortcomings down to the streets that demanded the resignation of the government.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, 73, was appointed as Sri Lanka’s 26th Prime Minister on Thursday to stabilize the economy that was ridden by the country’s debt and ended political chaos.
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