People in Sri Lanka are demanding their government address the crippling economic crisis.
Prosters say if the govenrment can’t handle the food and fuel shortages — there should be elections for a new government.
Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
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Why don’t you join with india and become one of the Indian state
That is the only answer to this crisis
This the changes government brought good result
Ah ha india vs chaina games works in srilanka
Wow
No sanctions, good agricultural lands
No war + operable sea ports means there shouldn’t be major shortages
@Mass Tendo ofcourse you fall for indian propaganda. There is no logical basis for what you Said.
Your should learn “”more” history your self
The colonizer but the Tamil Nadu people here because they knew intigrration means violence (but more importantly) distabalization off the country giving them an excuse to further control and treat the country As Though it’s full of savages
After India gained independence they left Sri Lanka too.leavin it with the turmoil becuase they couldn’t be bothered to fix it they spent all Thier Time pillaging the country.
And so the fghts picked up as land were the original inhabitants wanted the foreigners to leave or follow the rules of the country Thier in.
The Tamils chose too defy the land they were forced to live in causing further turmoil the rest is history.
It’s true the Sinhalese were treating the Tamils (many of whom born of Sri Lanka) unjust but they didn’t provoke A war they knew they dont need to due to Tamils having been a minority
But then the Tamils received training and military said from India and USA
The Sinhalease had no reason to bomb, rape , or Rob a minority they already saw as weak they left them alone with as few raacist revolts here and there
Then the LTT did all those thing you mentioned the sinhalese did all at once
Thats why we have murals and media and even landmarks showing that war took place
Ofcourse India would teach false history they want this country its to valuable if they support the LLT they would get a good deal out of the land (port) after all who do you thing supplied those weapons to the LTT
@OrionPax1303 watch “ Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields “ on YouTube by Britain’s Real Stories
@Cash Money bro I saw it’s a really well made docu but the white guys are acting as though the Sinhalese wanted to commit ear crimes which is false, it’s true they killed civilians but it’s war you can’t expect humanities best during time when humans are to kill on a another
In the end it is my belief that the Sinhalease had the right to recliam Thier land, but at the same time killing civilians is inexcusable
@OrionPax1303 and sinhala people are originaly not from ceylon, go and learn really learn the history brother . its really seriuous ask you parents or brothers sisters or read books it has very good books.
@Mass Tendo then Tell me where Sinhalese came from
When you hear Tamil most of not all people will associate it with Tamil Nadu which is in India.
So tell me where did Sinhalese come from
It’s true that south Indians originally traveled to Sri Lanka creating the vaddha tribes but they have made Thier own culture and language making them separate from the Tamil or Indian then king Vijaya came with other settlers but once again after a while his lineage not adopted and became intertvined in Sinhalese culture.
I don’t need to ask anyone anything. You need to provide more fact and less bs
Sri Lanka is a beautiful country. China is trying to destroy Sri Lanka. Never ever trust the Chinese government.
🙏🏽🇮🇳♥️🇱🇰
India should take sri Lanka’s port for 99 years before giving any aid/loan. These lankans love sleeping with China, so India should give similar treatment. Look at Lankan currency lol, it’s falling so rapidly.
150000 civilians killed by seingala army
Nope they didnt
india denied citizenship to tamil hindoos refugees. Modi the hypocrite
Srilanka begging now
Because of Karma!
Ya srilanka begging you for Shut the fu up.
@Maleesha Mevan you enjoy billion dollar you beggar. cant hold exam for kids and now you want to form new government.
what a joke.
@Vivek Jk haha sri lankans love china more than india. india is 3rd class couuntry and have 3rd cla people. look at the china they are the future. they are the future of the economy. sr ilanka should be controlled by china. this is a good chance for sri lanka.
Srilanka have been playing china against india and india against china all its independent years for its own benefit … now china is not interested in srilanka it seems, as it already have given hefty loans and grants to srilanka and srilanka is not paying it back… india is foolishly giving srilanka aid again while they are asking for it. !!… srilankan public hate india.. india will loose all those money which india is giving as aid and loan to srilanka
This is chaos due to curruption
The corrupt Rajapaksa’s are living a very Lavish life while taxing the poor people in the country.
This family is ruining this beautiful island, Selling it to other countries and looting the money.
Here, I have seen many hate comments towards India by Srilankans. Typical mentality
take help be it Covid medicine/ Urea/Loan etc and spit on India
When Srilanka can do genocide, they can also suffer like this.( Karma )
Sri Lanka is among the south Asian nations that refused to condemn the atrocities and war crimes being committed by Putin. If Sri Lanka doesn’t care enough about other nations’ terrible suffering why should other nations care about Sri Lanka?
like Europeans not caring about the innocent civilians in Iraq,Afghanistan,Syria,Lebanon and some of African nations .They stayed clam when their forces conducting continuous genocides at those countries and their parliaments were send more troops and lethal weapons to the front to kill more children and rape more women.
In the name of the Democracy(Democracy is synonym for greediness on crude oil and natural gases.)
LANAKA – you had one job…
What?
@Maleesha Mevan the spelling on the post…
Rajapaksa Family has stolen all our dollars.
Our foreign exchange has been eaten by a rat called Mr 10%. 🐀
With Love from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Bigoted Srilankans brought this upon themselves. Karma is real
don’t be misled by these all party conferences. They are intended to divert attention. These political parties are headed by old foxes like Rajapaksas, Wickramasinghes and Sirisenas.
Very ry true
انڈونیشیا میں مسلمانوں کا عیسائی گورنر کے خلاف احتجاج
go n beg china .
We need to change the rajapaksa regime immediately, otherwise we all go underground
Corrupt family rulling srilanka.
Sinhalese Buddhists are fools to get tied to these looters .
New government will not solve anything, Sri Lanka is a failed state at this point of time with zero foreign reserves. India and Chinas line of credit will only be a temporary relief. Most srilankans will start migrating to India
Agreed China and India help is only temporary but the main problem is the historical western debt which is more than 80% of the total country debt that Sri Lanka is struggling to pay back.
Bayyo peoples plz go home !!
But when I call and talk to my sri Lanka friends they are doing fine only
All politicians are corrupt my country..
do business with china
Thanks
But we have toilet
?????
NPP Political Party will make the future goverment of the sri lanka… because it is the only solution of peaple in SL.
western funded party
Its funny that western media linked Sri Lanka fail management to the chinese debt trap. Chinese debt only amounts to 10% of total Sri Lanka debt. I dont understand how this 10% debt can bring down Sri Lanka and other 90% wont. What a funny western logic. 🤣
Good moment of Sri Lankan peoples 👍👍🔥🔥🔥
karma is boomerang…how much you guys killing the tamilian there..
Congrats to you people, you voted Rajapakse family despite knowing they are corrupted brothers.
@JarJar Binks just because they are only good at governing during a war and have family closely tied to government doesn’t mean Thier bad by Default. The reason Mahinda was voted out was also for change. But change isn’t always a good thing, that was proven when the UNP took power
@Senira Ranasinghe we could but it’s unlikely if people are not willing to forgive
@OrionPax1303 then a whole new breed of leaders is the solution
@Senira Ranasinghe I agree but change is dangerous. Remember the last time people wanted Change they voted for the UNP that ended horribly with the Easter attack and ranil wikramsinghe running away and the UNP defence minister not warning of the attack.
I believe many if not most ate content with this government though it’s bad it’s the lesser off two or more evils
@OrionPax1303 I mean people suffered then people are suffering now. If we tried to atleast change it we’ll feel proud even if it didn’t go according to the plan
Corruption and nepotism. Meritocracy is the solution. Be careful in voting…
In democracy peoples are to blamed for their own destiny
A democracy in name only… The Rajapaksha family holds the government in a stranglehold so strong that its functionally an autocracy
Rajapaksha destroy sri lanka
Go and get more money from china😉
Gandhi family and rajapaske family both are corrupt and looters.
This is called karma
Better to join indian union territory instead of suffering with this kind of Government..
Rajapaksha clan came to power by stoking racism amongst stupid Sinhala majority but they looted the Sri Lanka’s treasury till there is no money and gold left with the help of their Tamil and Muslim collaborators. Rumour has it that they shifted 100 tonnes of foreign currency (roughly USD 10 billion) using private jets to Uganda. Rajapaksha thieves should rot in jail and all the money looted from Sri Lanka should be recovered and all their property worth billions should be confiscated. Gothabaya Rajapakshe is in talks with Tamil Alliance to sell the country’s North and East to the Tamil diaspora who are non other than staunch supporters of Tamil terrorists. The Sri Lankan Army should act now and remove the Rajapaksha thieves immediately
400 billion used for war LTT that’s why you suffering now prabagaran is really good man
The US looks away from corruption when the countries government is happy to take dollars.
They are not angry
Those signs were printed by the NGO that is funded by Soros! He is at it again, trying to overthrow another country’s government, using the least likely to benefit from a government change.
Omg sri lanka is very bad impression 😳
They shut down their economy, closed the border, locked down tourism, bankrupted one industry after another, took away the best and most productive years of peoples’ lives with their social distancing measures…all to save Grandma from a flu. Whoever thinks such a horrific abomination of basic human rights, necessities and economies just in the name of a flu virus will have no consequence, must be deluded. And these same people who are protesting now, actually embraced all these lockdowns and so called measures for no reason. In a way they deserve it.
The Sri Lanka owners cares?
Rajapakse atrocities and its racism has destroyed the country.
Singhalese government don’t know about money management. Learn from Chinese.
Racism ruined the country…….Srilankan must change ,from the day Easter attack happened in our country the curse of GOD begins to our country….Government must answer to Christians fairly
Stay strong Sri Lanka! Greetings from Poland
Watch “ Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields “ on YouTube by Britains Jon Snow of Real Stories .
Praying for Sri Lanka🙏💖🙏
Same happened to us during our Dictator Marcos term. 20 years of looting peoples money. We got rid of 2 elected presidents by People Power. Prayers and Hope for the best. Philippines 🇵🇭
its a shame to elect rajapaksha family , untill lankans realize that a true leader is someone who thinks of his citizens illegal arrest tamil supress is all his attitude he will sell whole lanka and run away with his family who can catch him , it will be a shame , he is just a fraud leader , untill he and his family members resign sri lanka will not prosper. he is unfit to be a leader. OMG people in the country wont even think of that?? and voted for him just becoz he can suppress tamils?? lol… this is what happens he will not be able to handle anything soon u all people will loose ur currency value ull see 1dollar at 500rs imargine if ur buying at 500rs per ltr petrol?? think urself
Only socialism can save sri Lanka.
Change the president. U know is a thief. But u vote his family. It was a sinhalis falt. 😡🤬
All the karma done by singhalese towards tamil people they are suffering now
Rajapakhe destroyed Sri Lanka because his corruption
This is karma
dis what happen when US sacntion Russia Lmao
Karma time for Sri lanka what you did to tamils….. You will suffer more…
@0:56 People are crying, Patience are dying and the Gouvernement is lying.
Indian government 1 billion to help srilanka & start supplying some amount of petrol…
We Indians will stand with srilanka ❤️🇮🇳🙏
It is saddening to see how this nation of very clever people has fallen to such times. I suggest they could all pool their resources and co-operate, and turn the economy round. I think they can do so, and wish them God’s blessings and Good Luck.
A country destroyed by its own politicians.This is what happens when hatred and communal minds run the country
Supiri 69 deg pare
Sri lanka shoild have a new government of suitably qualified at least a degree in their areas. These thugs and film actors and priests should stay out of pollitics. The current thieves should be held accountable and shot in public. Or the thieves shoikd be tried by people. A word of caution the country should be careful of jvp. Jvp should not be tolerated. No foreign government will give aid to a jvp government. Its like a talivan government, they should appoint 5 ministers from uk mean paid ministers with say 3 yr contracts and i guarantee sri lanka will come out of poverty. Sri lankans xannot ever pull sri lanka out of this misery. There has to be british ministers in the government. When tge british gave independence there was 1 billion sterling in the treasury. Based on that today we should have at least 100 billion sterling in reserves. Where has the money gone. Over consecutive years various thieves in the government have ravaged the sri lankan economy. The people of sri lanka and the military should either shoot or jail the current government. There should be a law only at least degree qulified people can submit nominations so that a new government consists of suitably qualified ministers with 6 key ministries headed by british paid mps. These are not elected but appointed by the new president who should be english speaking and demonstrating smartness needed to pull sri lanka out of this mess.
This is not PEOPLE. This is a Sri Lankan political party which received 3% of votes. This is the same party which started two insurrections, first in 1971( 4,500 dead) and second in 1987 (65,000 dead). This is a fringe organisation which already done great harm to Sri Lanka. At present they are funded by a Western nation. These are not ordinary Sri Lankans, these are party members who plan to seize power by a coup similar to Ukraine in 2014.
Yes we need more socialism
Same situation going to happen to India due to high fuel prices and high inflation rates. Sri Lanka peoples must take down the government and hang the corrupt leaders.
This is a radicalized political party twice failed to grab the power by force killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
Karma is a boomerang
Kick OFF ..Rajapaksa and his brothers
They destroyed this beautiful country
We Sri lankan need a leader like Putin he who loves his country so much 😣🙇🏻♀️
Because of grossly ignorant people like you,your country is in such a bad shape.
@Vale Visa nope let them have them their own Putin. He will turn it Sri Lanka to a Soviet Russia State too. You see how well it went in the end.
So funny comment bro😇,
Please Putin join our Sri lanka with Russia invade Sri lanka please take actions against rajapaksha family . We Sri Lankan people will support you for that
When the politicians have let down the country, the armies should boot them out from the government. The armies should act neutral, help the people, not politicians.
Is everybody commenting here a Moron? After Covid lockdowns and now the current no trade with Russia etc. for fuel, fertilizer etc. It’s amazing the inability to put together what has caused this inflation and hard times? Wake up people. It’s coming to your country Soon! And your stupidity deserves it!
Chinese debt trap
They deserved for what they did.
Genocide u did for the land and now china will take those land .
Just suffer for what u did .killed childrens and raped woman you guys are war criminals .. Karma suthu adikithu ah da 😂😂😂
Consificate ‘Bank Deposits and Properties’ of Rulers and Bureaucrats who led People of Srilanka to Pauper !😭😇😇😇
Is that crisis in S/L because of Nehru of india😃😃😃
This crisis motivate SreeLankan people to teast and see the l importance of material things!
Their is oil for all in iran and venuzela but us does not allow others to buy it. They need profit from their oil reserves…
Enough is Enough no More. Its Time To End Corrupted Rajapaksha Regime. Go Home Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksha. Long Live To Peoples Liberation Front (JVP). Love You All My SriLankan Brothers n Sisters.
Peace/n/Love
These things happen when unqualified and uneducated people become rulers. Because of their stupidity and ego, they don’t listen to educated expertise. Even though they are unqualified, they live very well to this day with American citizenship while innocent people suffering for their stupidity
Sri Lanka need to be a state or Union territory of India
China should buy Sri Lanka.
The Rajapaksha brothers sold the country to the chinese.
But they also save srilanka fron terrorist LTT
Srilanka want to develop only the solution is tamil people. Give them separate country they will develop your country because all over the world tamil people is there so they can help you🙏🙏 other wise never ever develop srilanka this is true.
😂😂 nice joke. tell more
All Tamils wanted was equal right, self determination and quality education. But the Buddhists denied the rights. Sri lanka has invested billions of dollars in internationally banned cluster bombs and chemical weapons to kill hundreds of thousands innocent lives to end 30yrs civil war. Crime against humanity and genocide have been committed by the same Rajapakse family. Karma is a boomarang. Ow they are selling all lands and resources to china and India . 🇮🇳 sinhalese people are on the street.
from 2023 sri lanka will be controlled by radicals.
Love my buddhist country from Nepal. Soon everythings Will be fine soon
In this tough time Indian people are with Sri Lankan people. May you guys get relief. Indians are doing what they can do.
Best of luck 🇮🇳🇱🇰
6,900,000 Buddhist votes are paying off !!!! When Gotabhaya Rajapakse was elected Buddhist people had no any other cheerfulness in their life. Today everyone is jerking off each other!!!!! What an idiots live in this country?? !!!!