Sri Lanka’s cabinet members have resigned en masse from their positions, the education minister said, as anti-government protests escalated despite curfews.
All 26 ministers aside from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his elder brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa stepped down during a late-night meeting on Sunday, Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told reporters.
The move came after thousands of people defied a weekend curfew on Sunday to protest across the island and demand the resignation of the Rajapaksa family, which returned to power in November 2019.
Al Jazeera’s Andrew Chappelle reports.
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Well done Sri Lanka.
More to come I guess…
The Chinese messed that Country up.
Sri Lanka now has to rely on India now.
Why don’t they come together already?
Srilanka has been a ticking timebomb even after the civil wars.Has more to do with corruption and less with china, besides chinese loans that most people talk about only amount to about 10% of its debt.
Covid and lockdown just blew it up.
Can’t pin blame entirely on China. If you repeatedly blow money on useless things you can’t blame banker for situation
@N G You are right about that, thank you mr Chinese Comrad.
Where is kaputas! Flew away with rolls Royce engine! Check the 🥥 trees to confirm please! Ohh I have the answer! Definitely should be around the trees in seeduwa!
Rajapaksa family will ask the China troops come to the SL soil for crack down demonstrators ?
Importan thing are common people not divaide party they wont new goverment,new leaders sajith permadasa has no people power ,corruption man
Take your stupid masks off
Yes another regime change on behest of foreign powers
Why Goya & Bros still hanging-on? Any others joining the new interim Govt also party to the downfall of SL 🙏🏽
Everything pays back.
People cant manage a small country 😣
Didn’t these people elect Gota in general election?
@Aloka Devapriya Problem is no one can predict such things from a person who technically was a key player in the civil war , you cant blame the people, its the same as the US electing Trump or as Robert Mugabe, once a national hero (they didnt expect such actions)
Almost all media institutions in Sri Lanka are pro-Rajapaksa. Although only two media institutions operate independently, they are not visible to the people in the villages due to signal issues. They came to power with the onslaught of Easter.
@Lakshi Dissanayake yep, the media played a huge role
@Helith Kotalange Gota`s election campaign was solely based on Sinhala nationalism. The majority of Sinhala Buddhists voted for him in the name of religion and race. So end of the day they had appointed a war criminal with a list of pending court cases.
@Aloka Devapriya true, but among the south indians (which includes us) have simply nationalistic ideas within politics, and its pretty much the conservation of culture, which we pretty much fought for, back in the 20th century
One way or others Allah plan works
Rajpaxa
Every politicians need to know people’s power larger than everything ❤️
What’s wrong with our world 🌍….
Too many people not enough resources.
Srilanka has more resources than most of the European countries but too much corruption
No more racism sri lankans unite now.
Resignation is not valid.
Not done legally.
Oh oh
Almost all of these ministers are corrupted beyond your wildest dreams. Even the person who speaks about democracy in this video (sajith premadasa) is no difference. After stealing public money for decades, this is how they mislead the world to prep for the next election. People who know these basterds for years know how rich they have become since they started politics. Most of these basterds should go to jail for the rest of their lives.
Problem is not rajapakshas but common Sri Lankans who elected those illiterate leaders to run country
Sri Lankans elected clowns 🤡 now they are watching circus 🎪 with them
For God’s sake, this time please put someone COMPETENT in power.
This is America in 4 years
There talking that crazy talk – talking 2 different things at the same time, wtf?
HORA GOTA BASILA YANAKOTA POLIYATH EKKA HORA KAPU DALLI DILA YANNA NOWEI UBALA OKKOMA NAWATINNE HIRA GEDARA JAMPER ADINNA WENNE.
You Idiots Al jazeera.
Crisis means some few are doing very well in detriment to many. Sri Lanka seems hopeless
India should annex sri lanka. They are all corrupt.
The caste system in full effect…..you lot need to wake up…now…
Rajapaksha family👠👠👠 👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠👠
Need gen sanat fonsaka
All his relatyb
They are criminals why not arrest them? where are the laws?? Rajapaksha family should go to jail no value for money here!
Rajapaksha dictator must go!
This country killed more than 100,000 Tamils and committed war crimes to eliminate Tamils aspirations to live in peace and harmony with their cultural identity. And still after 12 years of war no solution to Tamils living in north and east . No surprise that their sins pays its wages..still more to come. Let me give the details .
it’s called Karma! this government was elected by Sinhalese to work against minorities and now they are paying the price for it .
The 1956 anti-Tamil pogrom, also known as the Gal Oya riots, was the first organized progrom against Sri Lankan Tamils in the Dominion of Ceylon. It began with anti-Tamil rioting in Colombo, followed by anti-Sinhalese rioting in Batticaloa.
The 1958 anti-Tamil progrom and riots in Ceylon, also known as the 58 riots, refer to the first island-wide ethnic riots and pogrom to target the minority Tamils in the Dominion of Ceylon after it became an independent dominion from Britain in 1948.
The 1977 anti-Tamil progrom in Sri Lanka followed the 1977 general elections in Sri Lanka where the Sri Lankan Tamil nationalistic Tamil United Liberation Front won a plurality of minority Sri Lankan Tamil votes in which it stood for secession. An official estimate put the death toll at 125.
1981 – Burning of Jaffna library,The destruction of the Jaffna Public Library, with the loss of over 100,000 books, artifacts and palm writings. Four Sri Lankan Tamils were killed.
1981 – anti-Tamil progroms were carried out by Sinhalese mobs against predominantly Indian Tamils in Ratnapura, Kahawatte and Balangoda areas. Shops were looted and set on fire and many women and girls were raped by marauding mobs.
1983 – Black July anti-Tamil pogrom, Sri Lanka – pogrom committed against Tamils of Sri Lanka were between 3,000 to 10,000Tamil civilians were killed and many more made homeless and refugees. This was believed to be the origin of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
2009- over 40 thousand Tamilian were killed
and list goes on…..No surprise that their sins pays its wages..still more to come
Even the opposition in parliament has nothing to do with the people’s struggle. All opposition parties leave. We need a people’s government.
❤️🇱🇰
This Rajapaksa family steals all the money of us! Enough is enough!
Corruption is the main cause of collapse of a nation.
Don’t worry indian PM Modi definitely help srilanka……..
We want a country without thieves is tomorrow for children 😞🇱🇰
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
Opposition also responsible for this situation . They are alse corrupted. People dont support Sajith premadasa.
Pov: When someone you know is in this video
government is by the people for the people , proud to be a srilankan
Opposition side also have some corrupt leaders. Do not get fooled again. Think twice before you cast votes. They will trick you with some words and bribes. Our kids future is in your hands.
One family rule the country and exploits the country….We don’t want these rulers anymore…
Sri Lanka needs dollars from tourism and foreign employment which were severely dropped due to Covid impact
That’s a questionable democracy if a family is in power… ☝️😌 Maybe he mispronounced Kingdom.
Go home gota