Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned after protests over the island nation’s worsening economic crisis turned deadly.
In a statement on Monday, his office said he was quitting in order to help form an interim, unity government, following weeks of often violent protests across the country over spiraling prices and shortages of fuel and other vital imports.
Earlier, a government official said Rajapaksa, who has dominated Sri Lankan politics for nearly 20 years and whose government crushed the Tamil Tigers to bring an end to a long civil war, has sent his letter of resignation to the president.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the prime minister’s younger brother.
Al Jazeera’s Laura Burdon-Manley has the latest.
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The reason for bankruptcy ( of Srilanka ) is the corruption of the present political system…which is epitomized by the Rajapakse’s…but also the major opposition
And racism..by Budistmonks and Rajapalsha goons
@Jan Hansen
The protests against Rajapakse’s was led by Buddhist monks too…
Ahilan Kadirkaman and Tamils like him are also a majour part of this problem. This suffering of the innocent people of this country is the other side of undue and totally unjust Tamil claims and demands and their so-called minority rights. Tamils have been sabotaging this country for decades – Tamil terrorism and separatism is the majour cause of these problems. Tamil war against the innocent Sinhalese people cost over 200 billion dollars. Now this Tamil man is shamelessly coming to analyse the situation! Tamils have out played their vicious politics and demands against the innocent Sinhalese people, that the Tamils are shameful even to show up in the protests. The protests have been going on in full scale for over 5 weeks, and at a low level for the past 6 months, not a single Tamil made his way to Colombo to take part in the protests, while people from all over the island have come walking to Colombo in protest. Some Tamils even have the audacity to whine that the protesters are not carrying placades and banners in the Tamil language!!! I mean….. As a person who is half Tamil myself, I am shameful of the way Tamils have behaved. Just like the Rajapaksas its time for the Tamils to resign from their secretarian separatist politics, otherwise there will never be peace.
He is a terrorist .not a prime minister
GAL IBBA PAULA SAMAGA RATA KEWA.THAWA EKEK INNAWA MASATA GANNA GOTA.
President should also resign and run!
The problem is world wide enslavement upon humanity will never end
Pakistan is in the same boat. Dynasties have ruined the country where an elected government was thrown out by establishment at the behest of USA and installed dynastic crooks. US and other western powers don’t want dynasties for their countries but they want puppets in other countries to serve them. Slavery is well and alive just as the shape of it is changed.
Is he none of you are discussing the fact that what’s going on here is true of all countries on Earth hyperinflated currency wealth disparity a global fuel crisis and when Sri Lanka falls and Ukraine is already fallen where are all these refugees going to go they come to your country and they don’t create problems they just drain the economy a Domino effect is already begun they’ll bring what’s going on here to every country on Earth they’re just the first getting the wave
Arrest Mahinda Rajapaksha, who is responsible for yesterdays bloodshed,
ane palayan puk nodeee
@sam. enna Bere wavata nanna
@sam. tho bayyek wage mahindayage puka lewa kana😂 eeya oi thopi waradila pahala una jeewitha 😂😂
@Bitter Truth THO GIHIN RANILAGE,SAJIYAGE NAKI PUKA LEWAKAPIYA HUU..AM..PE.TOIYYA..
Even when he is stepping down…his motive was only Destruction.
Evil minded Sinners!
Aljazeera is trying to justify the present situation.
Adding fuel to fire?
“Gravitas” is seeing SriLankan crisis situation in the right angel!
He should be an example for all AUTOCRATS. He is finished with no place to RUN.
Present situation is the result of the mismanagement of the finances by the Regime!
We are going to kill every curupted politicians
Rajapaksa
One down more Rajapaksas need to go! This Rajapaksa family has ruined the country for more than 20!years. Enough is enough!
Hope prosecuting criminal charges to Mahinda and other Rajapaksas.
One way to reduce world population
If the people of country are not doing good, no matter how many P.M. or President charges, situation will be the same! Meaning accumulation of Merit is important! start from generosity, Discipline, Patience, Diligence, Medetative concentration and Wisdom. 🇱🇰 🙏
Put them in jail.
International Community or UN shall send army to protech Sri Lanks’s Sovirjinity
We Sri Lankans can cope this situation we don’t want International Army at this moment
Protestors are organized well. it looks like they are paid for doing protest.
What are you implying?????
@madara wijerathne i mean there exist some groups of professional protestors. it is kind of business for them. Rich opposite clans pay them money for protests. They provoke police and police cruely break up this demonstrations and media to report of it to show president as despot. It is looks like fighting several politics and rich clans for a government power. Regular civils are just victims of this fights.
@Highway
No one has that much money in order to hire that many “actors”. It is a groundswell you are seeing. The public is fed up with corruption.
Courtesy China🇨🇳 and Rajapakshas
It is so so SAD to see what the Rajapaksa’s have done over the YEARS to Sri Lanka and it’s economy and it is it’s people who will SUFFER for the REST OF THEIR PAINFUL LIVES! They truly have turned Sri Lankans into BEGGERS of the world where from now on they will have to go BEGGING on their knees around to each world leaders for money for the REST of their lives ‼️‼️💔💔
හොද වැඩේ බල තන්නාවෙන් පෙලෙන මලපෙර්රේයන්ට තමන්ගේ ආත්මගව්රවය තියාගෙන වැදගත් විදිහට ගෙදර යන්න දන්නෙ නැති බල තන්නාහ කාරයන්ට වෙන්නත් ඕනි මේ ටික තමා.
Help people of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰. Politicians are all responsible for this.
To the thinkers round the world searching the spirit of democracy. As we see the family of Rajapaksa came to power promising good life for the people but their inner was not very clear as they promised. They misused the money without employing the professionals and used the person Basil even without proper education as the minister of finance. So the country went down to the bottom of economy and the leaders could not resolve essential commodities for the people. Ultimately, he used thugs to cripple the demonstrators who were displaying their unhappiness in democratic way. At last the prime minister used thugs to attack demonstrators, probably he was mentally ill due to unresolved problems.
MAHINDA is a fraud from war days.
Rajapaksa Family gave ” War Candy”
to masses & started stealing .Billions of dollars were taken to Uganda. Commission from huge project, such as highways were also taken to Uganda, Dubai, Seychelles. Mahinda is the richest man in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
Ado.kunnu para ballu vasige putha long live ELAM hurra to thé tigers.
Tamil Eellaam 😂😂🖕🏼👿👅
If the president doesn’t step down I believe he will reappoint his brother as PM when things ‘cools’ down
This is what happens to a country when the neighbour is hindi aa
Hey WORLD DEMOCRACIES, SEE HOW CRIMINAL RAJAPAKSHAS’ CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD GANGS WERE FED BY CRIMINAL MAHINDA RAJAPAKSHA WITH TAXPAYERS’ MONEY FROM PRIME MINISTER CRIMINAL MAHINDA RAJAPAKSHA’s OFFICIAL RESIDENCE called “Temple Trees” BEFORE LETTING THE RAJAPAKSHA REGIME’S UNDERWORLD KILLING GANGS, GO OUT & KEEP ON ATTACKING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS!! WHILE CRIMINAL RAJAPAKSHA REGIME’S OFFICIAL KILLING GANGS A.K.A S.L. POLICE & ARMED FORCES DID NOT EFFECTIVELY PREVENT CRIMINAL MAHINDA RAJAPAKSHA’S UNDERWORLD KILLING GANGS WHO WERE RAMPAGING TO KILL, ATTACK, DESTROY PROPERTIES OF PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS!!!
Hey WORLD, we are born & raised Buddhists on Sri Lankan soil coming from generations, yet HIGHLY CORRUPTED MURDEROUS RAJAPAKSHA FAMILY, their kith and kin, underworld killing gangs ARE JUST BUDDHIST LABELs, not real Buddhists, & make our faith a laughing stock in the eyes of other Faiths, it’s nothing to be with Buddhism being the only philosophy without any type of killings.
Next: Philippines
He’s Modi of Sri Lanka. Butcher of Mullivaikkal. He killed many innocents Tamil civilians.
What is this situation? Hope Sri Lanka will go back to peace and order. This is the last thing we want to see from any country. 🇵🇭
This Lotus Revolution will change the politics of Sri Lanka, hopefully for the better. There is no short term solution and the people are going to suffer because of the greed of the Rajapaksa Regime.
The next is india and its government
Lol never ….our economy is strongest in world with more than 600 billion reserves…..
He’s a criminal..he’s evil brother still in power to protect him.
Every dog 🐕 has his day.
FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYY
HE DESERVES TO JAIL FOR ALL THE WAR CRIMES AND EXPLOITATION HES BEEN DOING
Today there will be special prayer for rajapaksa rejim at worldwide hindu graveyard
Rajapaksa – Raja yang dipaksa letak jawatan
In the olden days, Rajapaksas would have been led to the gallows after their overthrow, by the peoples movement for the massive suffering they have brought on to the Sri Lankans. Greedy, corrupt family. Sold their soul, people & country to the devil.
My Country 😣😞😭😭😭😭
He got 50 Thousand Tamil People Killed in the Name of Development 🤑🤑🤑
Al Jazeera, Please edit your caption ” Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns as crisis worsens ” . Crisis is over now because he’s the CRISIS .
How two brothers, a family (most of who live in luxury), can rule and fool 20 plus million people to abject misery for so long, is very hard to believe. Sri Lankans have no one else to blame except themselves.
This the reality for so many 3rd world country, as people are poor, uneducated and just live to survive 1 day at a time. There are these people who rise to power and destroy the country. I think Nepal will soon follow the same path.
@KnighBot Very sadly so. Poverty is what makes most people so passive and allow a few people to abuse power so much as it is in Sri Lanka.
Very sadly too for Sri Lanka, after the LTTE was crushed, the Rajapaksas have had a very good chance of healing, uniting and building the country. Instead, driven by greed and blinded by power (like so many other despots like them) they went on a looting, self enriching spree.
And now, very sadly and so painful to watch – people are being killed and Sri Lanka is burning. As if all these are not enough, the Rajapaksas are still trying hard, at whatever cost, to hang on (again like other despots around the world) – as if they solely own Sri Lanka.
May Sri Lanka have peace 🙏🏽
you sound like you are in much better position than them . that’s good , bcs alot of the world is suffering right now . hope it gets better for the rest of us
Inshallah Pakistanis is also against the imported government and all the Pakistanis is ready to march against imported government of shehbaz sharif
10 B USD loss due to covid impact from Torusim and loss of access to international credit market had widen the CA deficit which lead to depetion reserves. Now , power cuts are getting reduced from 10 hours to 3 hours/20 minutes. SL is working with IMF to get out off.
Now some terrorist attack oposite peoples house,vehicles… But there are lot of peoples are very peaceful.. They dont gave any political view they fight for good country.. But sadly some goons are trying to brake the peace in country… Hope police and army soonly take a action against them.. and we are waiting to see president gotabaya also rising soon.. Then we need some new lows to get our stolen money from politician… අරගලයේ තිබ්බ වටිනාකම විනාශ වෙනව.. දැන් ප්රචන්ඩකාරීව හැසිරෙන්නෙ අරගලයෙ හිටිය මිනිස්සු නෙවෙයි සජබෙට කඩේ යන පිරිස.. මේකෙන් වෙන්නෙ අරගලයේ මෙච්චර කල් තිබ්බ ප්රතිරූපය ජාත්යන්තරය තුල නැතිවෙනව.. ඒක දැනටමත් වෙලා තියෙන්නෙ පිටරට චැනල් බැලුවොත් ඒක තේරෙයි. කැරැල්ලක් විදිහට මේ අරගලය හංවඩු ගැහුනොත් මර්දනයට කරන ඕනම දෙයක් සාදාරනීය කරන්න පුලුවන්.. මිනිස්සු මොලෙන් කරගෙන ආව වැඩේ විනාශ කරන්න එපා… Now some terrorist attack oposite peoples house,vehicles… But there are lot of peoples are very peaceful.. They dont gave any political view they fight for good country.. But sadly some goons are trying to brake the peace in country… Hope police and army soonly take a action against them.. and we are waiting to see president gotabaya also rising soon.. Then we need some new lows to get our stolen money from politician…
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Gotapaya Rajabaksa & Mahinda Rajapaksa killed 300000 ordinary tamil farmers with the support of INDIA & CHINA. Their sole may rest in peace. They gave loan / credit line to corrupted regime to take srilanka land for 99 years lease. Still they are supporting the corrupted regime.
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Please give your support to Sri Lanka. The current regime is not doing anything to solve the current economic and social problems in the country, nor are they resigning to give way to more able leaders. They are holding onto power using all sorts of ploys. The current situation was/ is not created by the citizens, but by the current regime.
Chinese and Indian game
Covid cost
Well the real story is, a gangster ‘paid’ group of PM’s attacked brutally at peaceful protestors in Galle Face. What their message were to keep PM remain in the power as Prime Minister while all the people to be patient on supply of essential needs. People were desperate & highly stressful & they attacked the vehicles that were carrying gangsters to attack peaceful protestors who were at Galle Face throughout 31 days. After all these trauma, PM resigned! Simply we are not poor, We were robbed!
What rajapaksha and gotaba family fake Buddhist and crooks inside going through is punishment of Lord Shiva for mercilessly killing innocent Tamils and Prabhakaran and his little son. They were better educated pragmatic people who would have brought prosperity to Sri Lankans of all faiths.
yes bro
@Kaveen Dinukawhat is now is relevant. Sri Lankans now know the true colour of the Rajapaksha dynasty.
@leopard tiger Yes that is true but his color was changed after his second victory of president election in 2010. lot of Sri lankans accept it due to many reasons. Sri lankans also hates presidents from JR Jayawardane because falling Sri lankan economy was started from that time compared to other countries but terroroists hate only Mahinda.
I hope and pray Sri Lanka will return to democracy and good governance no corruption. I love Sri Lanka and people of Sri Lanka, the culture natural beauty temples tea8b journey.. I have been to Sri Lanka many times, I like to travel with Sri Lankan airlines. God is with Sri Lanka and people of Sri Lanka if people remain honest and peaceful.
@leopard tiger Thank you, All dirty politicians should give up their positions in Sri Lanka and then SL will rise again.
The same situation is happening in Pakistan, two families that ruined the state for 30 years, are again governing forcibly and imported by Biden Administration. The public has shown the same anger and raised their voice against the imported government. People are waiting for their leader’s call. They believe their leader is the one and only Imran Khan who can govern the system on a merit-based and he is sincere to his nation.
Good job mr rajapaksa… You deserved it! Same situation will happen around the world. People encourage to get more money than forget to their creature.
their agenda is a little bit different than how its portrayed in news. the violence is incited, and the Rajapaksa regime is encouraging violence. during the past protest, without violence, just because of fear of violence they imposed an island-wide curfew immediately.
They imposed temporary social media blocks to avoid the spread of what was happening, and they added extra police protection to all MP houses and assets even the people who have been strong supporters of the regime.
But now, since Monday it’s all completely different. No police guarding MP houses, No one to protect their assets, No social media bans, Curfew was imposed but no police barricades or checkpoints around. Unknown parties who clearly do not follow the same ideals as the peaceful protestors at Gota Go Gama/ Maina Go Gama etc are on the streets with iron rods and weapons, with no police to question them and stop them.
From the videos that have been shared among the people, it is clear that these people are not remotely even aware of what’s going on in Gota Go Gama. They are going around raising tensions among religious parties and political parties with the objective of taking away the people’s support for GGG and their unity as one people. Divided we are easier to control, now they are threatened by this hence trying to break us apart.
All these symptoms say this is weird. This is not natural, the whole incident is orchestrated and is a plan to break support forcing the GGG peaceful protestors on their knees.
The massive protests would not occur without some truth in the mix.
Pure fascist anti-Tamil evil = Mahinda Rajapaksa ! Thief
Unfit for self rule. This is what the European colonizers had to put up with.
pimpinan kudeta suruh jadi PM biar tahu pusingnya mengurus ekonomi
He didnt resign.we send him and his cabinet home.power to the people.
And where is the money he looted??? 🤔 😂😂😂
Militants predicted this earlier and asked for separate country
Must be hiding in Singapore now
The three things that kill country the most are budget missmanagement,corruption and conflict. sri lanka have them all.
Sri Lanka’s prime minister has targeted muslim minorities. Their destruction is inevitable. Inshallah, the destruction of India will happen soon.
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains. The standing is SLIPPERY, and the regress is either a DOWNFALL, or at least an Eclipse……Francis Bacon, OF GREAT PLACE.
Corruption 🤬👿👹
The President should resign at once. Can’t he see the writing on the wall ? He can’t suppress the angry, hungry masses with brutal muscle power. At one stage, his military 🪖 commanders will order the so called Supreme Commander to quit in order to avoid further bloodshed and anarchy. Doesn’t he know the history of Bangladesh? President General Ershad ruled Bangladesh for 9 years. In 1990, there was a popular uprising against his Authoritarian regime across the country and when the situations turned grave, the military refused to support him. Anyway, he judiciously handed over power to an interim government headed by CJB. If Gota fails to respond quickly, he will meet the same fate as Gaddafi did…….
Been thought so much with Intellectweb 👆 indeed this platform helped me out with a legit bank hack to my account
This man needs to be locked up and keys should be thrown away. He didn’t get what he deserved yet, unless the people get back all the billions he stole and justice is served for the war crimes him and his family did
SRILANKA ARMY AND POLICE KILLED OUR INNOCENT PEOPLES🇱🇰🇱🇰 PLZ HELP WORLD
මේකගෙ 3 නම ලක්බිම කියලා මූ රටටම ඇරිය කාලකන්නි අවජාතක සක්කිලි බල්ලෙක් මූ ලංකාවේම ඩොලර් බිලියන පතිය මේකා ඕකගේ ගෑනිගේ රෙද්ද උස්සලද මෙච්චර සල්ලි හෙව්වේ ලංකාවේම පිට රටවල් වලට තියෙන ණය මූ ගාව තියන් ලංකාවම හිගන්නෝ කරපු ඕකාව මාසයක් තිස්සේ පොලවේ ගහන්න ඕනේ මරලත් පොලවේ ගහන්න ඕනේ මාසයක් තිස්සේ අවජාතක සක්කිලි හිගන බල්ලව
Pray for SL 😥
Was such a beautiful paradise in Gods creations,evil greedy people destroyed.
Mahinda it’s karma you’re 🐷🐖.
One world order is raging Saturdays 🙌Sabbath 🌹 Jesus kindgom is coming 🌹🙏🌹
Aljezeera ,please we want justice for what Rajapaksha family does for our country they have to go to prison because they steal our money and murder so many people please we need 🙏🏽 help to remove our p resident 🙏🏽 they tried to cover truth from the world
Bharat vi bahut jald Sri Lanka banne jaraha hai.
Hmmm. Prime Minister Mahindra resigned. Well, I don’t know what to say.
Let’s hope peace and joy return somehow to the beautiful people of the nation of Sri Lanka.
God’s wrath! Rajapakse government hatefully burnt Muslim dead bodies from Covid-19, now they’re humiliated and the country is burning. They must seek God’s forgiveness and mercy – HE is the most merciful!
Corruption
Bankrupt c but prime ministers houses slot luxury car wow that is not bankruptcy that stolen put own pocket
They did what needs to be done 👍🏼
I really like these kinds of Protest & Activities around the world
Bhosdika India na aajae bhaag ke
And his resign was due to price rise of food price due to The Ukraina war. Not his fault.
Hi
Corruption exacerbated the problem in SL. The majority of the world is experiencing Inflation. We will be seeing these types of crises as corrupt governments experience the loss of patience of their people.
It’s going to be a long hot summer, best buckle up.
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We need tamil EElam & also don’t kill tamil EELAM COMMON PEOPLE’S GOD START IT TO PUNISH SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT MANY YEARS A GO 🔥 💷 🏡 ✌🏽