Sri Lankans are continuing to demand President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation, with thousands rallying in the capital, Colombo, saying neither he nor members of his family could be trusted to steer the country out of its deepening economic crisis.
At the Galle Face Green on Colombo’s waterfront on Saturday, students, teachers, lawyers, actors and architects – many of whom said they were protesting for the first time – chanted “madman Gota” and “Go home Gota”, in a reference to the president’s nickname, as they gathered under a blistering sun.
Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from Colombo.
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#SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaProtests #GoHomeRajapaksas
Chineese debt is responsible for this.
No, it’s not.
@P2DW yes it is
Eat the rich!
🙏🙏🙏🙏Help us..Save us from Rajapaksa and Regime 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
India has already loaned billions and about to do more. But remember it’s the Sri Lankan people voted the corrupt politicians in power from what I believe partly out of hate towards the Tamil people. They also welcomed China when they were building all this infrastructure on borrowed money also from China which was sure to fail.
But India should still help for regional safety and for humanitarian reasons. If it was China next door, Sri Lanka would have been part of China long time ago by force.
Your quite biased. Sri Lanka needs to play India and China against each other that is their only leverage. Like every developed nation the more corrupt your government the more China gives ahhh economic colonization is fascinating and scary.
End family politics.
LISTEN 👂 GOTA 🐃 WE WILL NOT STOP 🛑 THIS UNTIL YOUR DEATH 💀 ALL AROUND SRI LANKAN PEOPLE PLEASE JOINT WITH US 🙏 FOR YOUR LIFE AND YOUR GENERATION. WORLD 🌎 PEOPLE WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT ALSO PLEASE 🙏
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Save sri Lanka 🇱🇰
The whole world needs to change constitutions. No more family regimes anymore. Thats the biggest problem everywhere.
Go home GOTA MAMA
I’m from sri lanka 🇱🇰 . Please we want international help…!!!!! Gotabaya rajapaksha and the government dont listen to us. They trying to hide this situation in the world. Our media was controled by the government. The media shows no problem in the country. But all cities , all villagers people in sri lanka says “GohomeGota” . But the government trying to suppression the people.
Please we want international media BBC or anyother. Show these situation to world. Please we want your help international….!!!!!! we havent electricity , fuel , gas , medicines 🥺 please help us to reject this government 🙏🙏🙏
Family planning is good economics
Go Home Gota
So many corrupt individuals are high jacking our lives and stealing our money all over the world…may they all meet harsh karma for unGodly actions
This is SO Biased. Al Jazeera blamed the economic downfall on everything else other than the government who are solely responsible due to their incompetence.
🤣🤣🤣🤣. Yeah, okay.
Never give up power!! Never!!!
Gotta horu
Gotta horu 600 billion dollars
Sri Lanka needs dollars via tourism and foreign employment(main foreign income earner) which were deadly affected by Corvid. Power cuts are now 2 to 4 hours and, during festive days, no power cuts. This will recover soon.
America real culprit 💵💵💵🔥🔥🔥💀💀💀💀💀💀
China*
Today there were another two deaths in the petrol queues .a 50 year old person who filled petrol and after that he died from a heart attack ,other person just collapsed while in the queue .
Lets go sri lanka.❤️❤️❤️
People all over the world are getting sick of corrupt governments!
Just like biden is doing in the USA .
Irresponsible leaders did this to the poor people
Politics made that family rich, powerful, …..they will not leave power unless forced…joybabaGorakhNath
Omg
The US, Europe and Russia etc., are spending billions on wars. Where is the money where help is needed?
THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD THINK THEY ARE ABOVE THE PEOPLE HERE MORE PROOF.
It is the consequence of China’s one belt one road cheating game,
Its part f a democracy to protest and hold a govt accountable. But isnt it time we asked ourselves what we have contributed to the country? A massive majority of people in Sri Lanka pay zero taxes, yet live off the state. Free education, medical etc. Medicine, petrol, diesel, electricity, fertilizer etc have all been subsidized for decades. How can a country survive that? Especially when no money is coming in? People need to ask some tough questions of themselves… while protesting.
Until we take stock of our own actions, none of these protests will amount to anything in the medium to long term.
Corruption 🤬🤑👿
ගෝටා පලයන්
1776 Worldwide.
The People in the Siri Lankan Government got millions of Dollars in Bribes from the Chinese to take on infrastructure projects, which were of no benefit to Siri Lankan People. As the Loans for such projects from China were made in criminal circumstances , it might be just a case of not paying any debt created by such projects. After all we must all support Law and Order.
We need help🥺💔
Keep it up my SL friends, you deserve justice
Rajapaksa please give up, let SRI LA Lanka to survive, come back to USA.
We will prosecute Rajapaksas here in USA.
Support from California, USA
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The worker’s hunger works for himself
because he is driven by his own mouth.
Karma is very powerful ,,, you people should have raised for equal rights to people from all religions of your country
So funny
This globalist agenda must be stopped! My heart goes out to these desperate people of Sri Lanka. We are all at risk. May God be with all of us in these freakish times. 🤍💥
Playing cards with China and India worked for Sri Lanka, until it does not.
Yo bro this ain’t playing cards. See if you take the last 6 months sri lanka had an awesome economy with reasonable prices for foods and other essentials 👌 and then came in our presidents family and they stole every single dollar from our country and now we are left with nothing .this didn’t happen due to China buy it happened due to the rajapaksha fam
The so called majority in Srilanka voted for these thugs to revenge minorities but now we all suffering…
The the whole population is extremist. Go home GOTA
poor Sri Lanka the price of oil and gas and food has increased so punish their government. What next punish the dog because it rained today? There is nothing so dangerous as ignorance and a mob. You can change the captain of the ship but it does not stop the storm and the hurricane from doing their chore.
Micro farm for sale $140k 12ac MO 2 tiny homes well water/solar/etc Jacks Fork Farmstead Hwy 137 Willow Springs MO won’t let me send link maybe it will show on Zillow doesn’t qual for loan cash only option. Good luck and Godspeed!
India will be soon like this …bcz the price hike in India is like Rocket 🚀
Why can’t US get actions against Basil Rajapakse who’s a dual citizen of both USA and SL?
CHINESE DEBT-TRAP $5,000,000,000 (BILLION), foreign Reserve all went to pay CHINA INTEREST. Lanka Voters voted out Rajapaksa, brought in his brother, he in turn brought in his brother back as president. Then Foreign Reserve disappeared in 3 months. Evd of 2019 $7 BILLION F.Reserve, March 2020 down to $2 BILLION.. Rajapakshas brother and CHINA L00TED S.LANKA..
HAPPY HOURS ARE ENDING FOR SRI LANKA 88 % OF SIN-HALESE ARE WORKING IN TAMIL AREA NORTH & EAST WHERE TAMILS ARE REJECTED FOR GOVT EMPLOYMENT, ALL POLICE AND ARMY BEHAVIOUR IS LIKE A THUGS , EVERY TAMILS PERSON IS TREATED LIKE A TERRORIST. IT’S BACK FIRE NOW ..THERE IS A GOD .
China’s BRI is the main cause of financial crisis in Sri Lanka.
China has lured Sri Lanka to borrow an enormous amount of money at an unreasonably high interest rate Sri Lanka can’t afford to repay,
to build extravagant infrastructure Sri Lanka doesn’t really need for healthy economic growth.
China’s debt trap for Sri Lanka has significantly reduced Sri Lanka’s financial resilience to international financial risks.
China is a very dangerous nation.
We need help✊
gota go home “
Rajapakshala Thieves family
The delay in the ratification of the decision to resign has caused a record of public rancour toward the infamous Rajapaksha 👪 family.
WILL THE GULF WILL OPEN UP AND SHOW THE HIDING MONEY OF THE FAMILY OF RAJAPAKSHA . ??? SRILANKAN POOR PEOPLE BLOOD MONEY THAT HIDE AND RUN IN GULF COUNTRYS ALSO .
A small correction to the points which you had highlighted as reason for this crisis – it is maily due to excessive borrowing from China and investing in projects which are neither feasible and no any economic return plus the ofher main reason been the Rajapaksa family stealing money from the people
Lol you know better than us Sri lankans .. ridiculous
@Shakila Sanjeewa excuse me I too am from Sri Lanka. I very well know the current status and the root cause
Duh 😏
@Shakila Sanjeewa yup seems like that, do your research right 🙂🙂
Fck that
Easter attack done by this government…😂🤦
Imran khan zindabad
We love imran khan
Jail jayega Tera imRun khan
Gota go home..
There is a need for international court of Justice to oversee functioning of democratically elected government and punish politicians who promise and do not deliver. In the case of Sri Lanka the sinhales are responsible for electing the Rajapaksha clan to power. Now they are suffering. Clever honest capable patriotic Tamils were ruthlessly driven out by the sinhales now they are in a worst state. Eigenschuld..
Please forget the past what happened and future will try to live as Sri Lankan without dividing
I have an answer for these people. YOU NEED TO BE LIKE UKRAINE PERIOD. YOU FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT for your children, your family, your village and your country. YOU need to get in front of the Congress and Presidential palace in Colombo and demonstrate, demonstrate, demonstrate for your country. YOU FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. Do not be like Afghanistan where they ran, ran, ran to the airport to get out. Or like Syria where they ran, ran, ran to the west asking for handouts. If YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY, YOU ARE GOING TO FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY! Remember, that REVOLUTIONS START HOME VERSUS RUNNING TO THE BORDER!
Sri Lanka is poor country now because Rajapaksha family
Only the wealth of the Rajapaksa family has become huge …💸
0:52 Every Sri Lankans frustration sumed up in three posters !
Dear people….put the masks down first….and fight futhere….God bless you
نحذر ونحرق جسد راجاباكشا قريباً بعون ربنا والأمل بالهدف.
i hope every country gets politicians like Rajapaksha ,
so that people will open their eyes and take metter in their own hands .
අරගලයට ජය..!🇱🇰
We need more international recognition
Qatar please send 20 billion dollars
Your spending 220 billion dollar for football pls send 20 billion dollars
No more political tyranny
Go home gota
These protesters are highly deluded. The Rajapaksas have been getting ready for a prolonged showdown. They can’t be chased with these protests. They must be forced out of their enclaves😄
0:51 I love how the sign isnt censored lol
most of srilankan (most of the singalese think we are immigrant from TM) from north used to live for 20years with out gas electric fuel medicine battery etc. all items banned in north.
come on guys is that pain for you? in the name of LTTE you guys killed 14000 innocent tamils. i dont care you guys killing LTTE. do you know how many people died because of no medicine . no eclectic for hospitals they cant keep some medicine with out fridge.doctors did operations with kitchen knife . i lost my mum because of that. easily people can say forget the past. will you forget your mum? i hate LTTE too.
Not thousands, it’s in lakhs
Sri Lanka is not a Rajapakshe family business anymore 😡
together we stong. Together we win❤️🇱🇰🙏🙏
We need our future. We need our children’s future back, rajapakshe thieves.
Enough is enough and no more🇱🇰🇱🇰
rajapakshe family isn’t only thieves but also murders😢
they must go to jail😠😠😡
gojailgota🇱🇰🇱🇰
The economic downfall of Sri Lanka happened not just over the last two or three years; it happened in 2015 the moment UNP/Yahapalana came to power!
Soon after the war was over and the Tamil terrorists were defeated, China entered the scene to help Sri Lanka in its development programs! They were pouring in money and embarked on several projects in the country – mainly in the North and South.
The former LTTE cadres who surrendered were being rehabilitated and were being given vocational training in several sectors for employment in the projects that were being initiated in the north!
The southern development was accelerated to create a industrial and commercial hub including for tourism with the new port and airport!
The economy of the country was heading in an upward trend!
Then came the threats from the “West” that didn’t want China taking root in SL and were conspiring with Ranil Wickremasinghe and former president Chandrika Kumaranatunga to topple the government!
Ranil W knew he would lose a record umpteenth time if he contested for presidency in 2015 – so Chandrika K nominated through the SLFP, for a totally incapable person named Sirisena from the SLFP to be a common candidate for presidency – on the agreement that Ranil will be appointed PM and he will be in control – and Sirisena was just going to be a puppet!
Soon after UNP/ Yahapalana candidate Sirisena won and Ranil became PM, the first thing that Ranil did was kick out the Chinese and stop all development projects initiated by them! China then stopped the money flow; development projects stalled; people lost jobs – especially in the north and south!
Then came the big blow – the Central Bank scam planned and executed by Ranil and Mahendran – and the stolen money all ending up in Singapore!
At this stage the people realized who the rogues were! Finally, in 2020 the UNP candidate was defeated and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa came to power!
Unfortunately, in addition to the loss of development projects, jobs, money scammed by the Central Bank heist, the county was affected by COVID (the whole world was) – and that affected Sri Lanka’s biggest money earner, tourism!
These are the three main factors that contributed to the country’s economic collapse!
Moreover, the western money lenders have been trying to squeeze the government to enact the 13th amendment which would give more powers to the minorities to control more than a third of the country, if they were to agree to provide a bailout, which the government had not been in favor of!
In hindsight, it would have been fruitful if the government had at an earlier stage, before the economy was heading towards a downturn, dissolved the government and called for a snap election or invited the opposition to join the government!
Unfortunately, the political parties in the country are not interested in the country or it’s people, but to come into power at any cost – even by instigating riots and creating anarchy!
Is there ONE Man only ONE to destroy these Alien Monsters ,there are MORE than 20 million so called Human beings !!
Get out genociders: all Rajapakshas! Killers of Tamils and the economy. Murderers and corrupters. Go straight to the Hague for war crimes!
Power to the people
අරගලයට ජය වේවා!!!
This is karma. Majority of tamil people who were hated by this country and its government, are now wealthy and well settled in foreign countries. Singalees and unfortunately a minority of tamil people needs to go through this and the government has to learn a lesson.
Rajapaksha looters get out..
Yes theifs rajapakshas give back the stolen money to the people..
Crooked leaders must be shot dead for looting a nation at the sorry expense of its citizens.
They are facing the karma of Tamil Genocide
Accusing protesters as “extremist”, would only worsened the situation and putting salt on wounds
In 2009, one hundred and fifty thousand inocent minority Tamils were bruttaly killed by the Sri Lankan army. The then defence minister said on record that he considers the hospitals in Tamil areas and designated ‘no fire zones’ are legitimate targets. These people celebarated when their fellow citizens bleed to death . Ask any of these protestors, either they will deny any killings, justify them as collatarel damage or accuse LTTE . That tells a lot about Sri Lanka. I hope the present government continue to rule Sri Lanka, so the racist majority can come to their senses.
We need international support…
People are dying in long queues
HI, ALL, TIMES UP FOR OR GOVERNMENT, THIS IS COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU ( BORIS, ) ???
Unfortunately they don’t have a leader like P V Narasimha Raoji who steered our country out of a similar crisis situation. We were fortunate to have him as our Prime Minister during the said time.
A beautiful country and friendly people. They don’t deserve this.
“error 404 democracy not found ” it made me giggle.
– ভালো থাকার সূত্র.!😊
– ধৈর্য + অপেক্ষা + আল্লাহর প্রতি ভরসা.!❤🌸
Sri Lanka has been sold to China.
Sri Lankans now are Chinese debt slaves.
Gota go home
Another “Putin” in making we need to cut this douchebag from power right now 😡😡