“It’s an economic crisis that was brought on by a political crisis, and now we’re just generally in crisis.” #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains what’s going on in Sri Lanka and why many are blaming President Rajapaksa and his family.
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U joker u know it’s run by rpaksa family u keep quiet and now u talk big shame on you people dumb,,,,as
I desperately waiting for your upcoming episode, thank you pretty, beautiful and gorgeous girl i really like you!
Qatari should Help. 🇺🇦
Gold Currency will fixed all of this if we used
Quadrillion gods in sri lanca sleep.
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.when they wake up .. toilets pinis.
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.BizMuLLaGh pbuh pwe SWaT pwa blyat kkk ngk kgb kjv niv ssd ddt rip etc etc.
The politician stole all the money!
Whoever is in power, the people suffer- Ex schoolmate who was orphaned in Sri Lanka, 2003
i bet CCP will “save” them,,
CCP been hording foods yknaw
Superpower 2020 lmao.
At least Sri is on the way out of the mess. Meanwhile Philippines is still on the way. Our god forsaken country is dominated by Family Dynasties. There are 4 siblings and mother and sons in the Senate.
Politicians instigated racial divide, and the island with two nations is now wrecked. That’s what has happened and is happening!
Go Gota Go!!!
there is a misleading news here the majority of the PM they want Gotabaya to stay
Deluded
People hate Rajapaksas at this stage as they ruined the country without taking responsibility well. This is the main reason for the unrest. They also complain of illegal money transfers to other countries to their accounts. They do not care at the moment. Foolish managers.
I’m a Tamil, I left this country when I was 5 due to civil war. I’m very saddened by what has happened and what is happening. MY hearts go out to the people of this nation, we hope everyone can come out of this and prosper. What a beautiful country…. it’s a shame.
Rajapakshas are the Picassos of Corruption and deception. Rajapakshas stolen Sri Lanka People’s Money through hefty infertile infrastructure projects by taking huge Commissions from them and They recruited their disqualified party supporters for Government jobs while taking no care on the Government spending.
Rajapaksha Followers are Thugs, illegal sand miners, forrest loggers. They are the modern day Gobles in the world. Their master does nothing , but they still blame others for Country’s mistakes.
This what exactly happened in Sri Lanka. All that’s corrupted politicians should face justice! Unfortunately justice system in Sri Lanka is controlled by these politicians.
Bad administration is correct. They have gone through a terrible civil war for forty years, that consumed entire wealth of this small island. Srilnaka has high potential to grow like India or any other county. Problem no visionaries. Britain can help them for it was their colony for 200 years . They can CONSULT their problems with a genius in India called ARAVIND KEJARIWAL who is the CHIEF Minister of Delhi , he brought Delhi to Scandinavian standards with in ten years. People are very educated in Sri Lanka , they can easily handle foreign languages, it could be a cheap hub of outsourcing for IT, cloth production, printing, In 20 years they can come up and stand up on their own feet. It is even better than many north African countries.
We were governed by crooks. This crisis didn’t come overnight Ranil is also to be blamed for the Central Bank Bond scam Mahitri Pala Sirisena also was a crook. Mahinda ,Ranil ,Sirisena are on the rich list of Sri Lankans. Mahinda 55 Billion dollars Sirisena 14 million dollars. This could be seen on u tube. Richest list of Sri Lankans.
Assalamualaikum welcome
I’m sri lankan.china loan is cause
Sri Lanka President GooD 🌻❤🇨🇳🇱🇰🙏8
Sri lanka has fall to the Chinese Debt Trap
Brown people can’t vote… coming from a brown person… they feel
Important they can vote but they stupid
Wow. Very similar to Malaysia now. Soon will be like srilanka today.
Great that you Al jazeera tried to know their problems and so ready to help them
What country will be next? Check out which ‘democratic’ elected government having been ruled by the only one single party for the non-stop 65 years…
In india also prices raises… So what happened next don’t know, 😫
Years of corruption, nepotism and cronyism have finally brought Sri Lanka to its knees. The serious business of government is run like a family business, with the Rajapaksas enriching themselves at the expense of the people. Why then do people continue to vote for corrupt politicians, as happens here and elsewhere in some other South East Asian countries?
As horrible as it sounds, it seems like something like this was meant to happen because now people in Sri Lanka are demanding a complete overhaul of the system and also realising the need to treat all ethnic groups equally. It has to start at the bottom, the people are now finally asking for it.
The only reason I’m watching this is because of the journalist reporting on this. All I heard was rice and India.
Cursed condemned by Syria 🇸🇾,Palestine and Ukraine
Sounds like the ANC government who has little understanding of economics….lazy to run a country properly but only understand the subject of stealing taxpayer money…🇿🇦
Sri Lanka and India 🇮🇳 were supporting cheated Russia by an Israel 🇮🇱 and Portugal 🇵🇹 but Portugal 🇵🇹 and an Israel 🇮🇱 has turned with the three mentioned countries so sorry for them
Help us!We are stuck with stupid politicians.
All countries should stand in favour of Sri lanka❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Regime change
Countries need help , what should our World leaders do ?
Why can’t they help n what do the World meaning United n there’s UN to support, why must let them struggling to death.
Can’t UN involve with everyone, every countries that having problems.. to give them life to survive.. , May Allah blessing all of us to have good life to survive, always.. Ameen 🤲🤲
Lotus tower spent more than USD100 million. It is more than LKR 35,000 million. Lotus tower doesn’t contribute for economy…
Because Rajapakshas and the company ruin everything.specially the revenue
I’m fully confident that Sri Lanka will solve all of its crisis and get out of this mess but we still won’t be able to solve why Sandra changes her chair
Socilalism kill.
When racist idiots rules out the country,this will Happen
Sri Lanka is like Greece in 2008.
It’s the first of many dominoes to fall.
People have kept on voting for the Rajapaksa’s..You get what you vote for.
Sri lankan people had good life before these corrupted politicians came in to power.
Economic mismanagement and corruption were main reasons.
For their (politicians ) benefit they devided people according to their races, religion , political parties and so many other sub divisions. Then it was easy for them to stay in power and manage. Easy for them to mismanage the economy and steal.
Currently all nation standing unitedly against these corrupted politicians .
Protests are peaceful and powerful. They all have one vision.
Hope Sri lankan people will achive their target and bring the country back to prosperity with a proper government .
Good luck mother Sri Lanka ❤️
not more FOREIGN AID!! live humbly and within your means. some countries should go back to riding bikes/horses and using candles for LIGHT if you cannot afford fossil fuels then you are a slave to opec and will be POOR forever
NO PAY for politicians…should be a VOLUNTEER job
Bring an end to the one world looney leaders!
yes they targeting the greedy government rats well done to the sri lanka people please show zimbabwe how to do this.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
corruption in english court terrorist, killer of dariga nazarbayev deceived the court of england
коррупция в суде англии террорист, убийца дарига назарбаева обманула суд англии
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They stop making TEA?
The primary reason the Srilanka in this situation is due to the amount of money and resources they spent and borrowed abroad to commit genocide against the Tamils…
Sri Lanka should join South East Asian Nation. South Asian economic eco system kinda suck.
This explained the general situation really well
Rajapakshe family should not rule srilanka once again if they want to live.
Rajapakse s responsibility is 70% for this mess. Rest is to other party as well who ruled the country after 1977
Karma is boomerang!!!
A government that can appoint it’s own family member to big positions. Is this even a democracy?
Philippines, this is your future for voting another Marcos and Duterte.
Every single member of the president family and relatives should be striped and force to live under the sewer.
NWO
CORRUPT POLITICIANS, THEIR SUPPORTERS, POLITICALLY BIASED JUDICIAL/POLICE/RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND LAZY PEOPLE WITHOUT PASSION/VISION ARE TO BE BLAMED FOR THIS MESS.
As a Korean I saw this coming years ahead, well best of luck to you all.
What about the looted money by the RajaPACKS (🐺🐺🐺)?
The pack of wolves, the RajaPACKs 🐺🐺🐺, ironically named Mr GOATa 🐐, along with the Wicked FOX 🦊 ranil WICKremesinghe hunted flawlessly and looted the last remaining coin from the island 🏝 and made beautiful Sri Lanka a perfect burning jungle 🌳🔥🌳🔥🌳.
I’m scared for the Philippines. 🙁
Thank you for summarised and explained the issues. Very easy to digest and understood. I always enjoy and looking forward to watch your program.
The New World Order has been Enforced by The Illuminati Secret Society.. Pakistan is next..
and the world says it because of the Chinese debt trap….
I’m from Malaysia..and this is going to happen to malaysia too. Exactly the same thing happens. Problem Government that controls everything.
Credit Rating for Malaysia is stable BBB+ while Sri Lanka is is rated Caa2 by Moody’s Investors Service, near the bottom of the scale. Stop being so pessimistic and give us the data to back up your claim if it is true.
Happening is happening
The production quality is amazing.
Lend money from the world bank.
China happened
Looks like the Philippines is heading the same way.
Shame On Israel, We Will Destroyed Israel Completely Inshallah, We Will Finished Completely This Brutal, Unaccepted Country
look no further than China
Even today whole country is suffering from fuel high price and no sufficient issusing for them. But Parliament members and families and friends has no queues and low prices for fuel. They get from special fuel station assigned for Three Forces. So sad. People in the queues lost their lives.
Beautiful country just shame what’s going on in Sri Lanka today.
Sri Lanka is the new Greece.
Gorm
This is what NATO expected for Russia but it backfired
Kill those corrupted politicians
Corrupted politicians abuse the constitution 21 Times.
New PM Mr. Rail wicramadinghe is gives birth as result of those abuse.
Don’t the people of Sri Lanka share any of the blame? Are they not the one’s who put the Rajapaksas in power?
Well that was very much informative and I appreciate the journalist. Well done.
Bring back British Colonial rule.
He banned fertilizer 🤣🤣🤣
we are in trouble send us dollars to save us…..
nepotism
And also those debts that taken from foreign countries arw also stolen by the rajapakshas. You guys can start an investigation theyhve stole our money and invested them on Uganda.
This is so sad – we have guests booked to tour Sri Lanka in a month’s time and are not sure if it is safe for them to go also if the standard of service levels has dropped. We have already delayed this booking once and are now very unsure of what to do…
Sri lanka has corrupt politicians and elites that’s what’s hurting sri Lanka 😈🥺
Rajapaksa regime destroyed SriLanka’s economy. Stealing from loans , was in high gear.
This is bad Karma kicking the srilankans. The autrocities committed against the minority tamilians when the LTTE was crushed have come home to roost.
It was not the anti-government protestors who set fire to the homes of ruling party officials, It was done by some ministers who still support the Rajapaksha family. Some of those patheic loosers are put behind bars now.
People of sli Lanka are to be blame for there country situations…now they suffer.for.there wrong.choice
It’s the karma you are paying now you killed innocent Tamils people