sri lanka https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 sri lanka https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 Sri Lanka’s President and Prime Minister to Step Down Over Tumultuous Economic Protests https://canadianriley.com/sri-lankas-president-and-prime-minister-to-step-down-over-tumultuous-economic-protests/ https://canadianriley.com/sri-lankas-president-and-prime-minister-to-step-down-over-tumultuous-economic-protests/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:33:48 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=1172 Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister agreed on Saturday to resign after the country’s most chaotic day in months of political turmoil, with protesters storming both officials’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the Speaker of parliament said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would step down on Wednesday.

Thousands of protesters entered the capital, Colombo, and swarmed into Rajapaksa’s fortified residence. Videos showed jubilant crowds splashing in the garden pool, lying on beds and using their cellphone cameras to capture the moment. Some made tea, while others issued statements from a conference room demanding that the president and prime minister go.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/sri-lankas-president-and-prime-minister-to-step-down-over-tumultuous-economic-protests/feed/ 0 1172 More Liberal Hypocrisy Melanie Joly the Right to Peaceful Protest be Respected Sri Lanka Protests https://canadianriley.com/more-liberal-hypocrisy-melanie-joly-the-right-to-peaceful-protest-be-respected-sri-lanka-protests/ https://canadianriley.com/more-liberal-hypocrisy-melanie-joly-the-right-to-peaceful-protest-be-respected-sri-lanka-protests/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:57:45 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=136 As Sri Lanka runs out of fuel, doctors and bankers protest ‘impossible situation’.

Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island’s worst economic crisis in decades or step down.

Weeks of street demonstrations against cascading woes such as power cuts and shortages of food and medicine brought a change in government last month after nine people were killed and about 300 injured in protests.

More Liberal Hypocrisy: Liberal Member of Parliament Melanie Joly Tweeted Canada is deeply concerned about the deteriorating economic situation & civil unrest in Sri Lanka. It is essential that the right to peaceful protest be respected. We stand in solidarity with the peoples of the island during these difficult times. This wasn’t the case in Canada where Trudeau attacked Canadian’s fundamental rights.

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