Sri Lankan President Gotabaya declared a state of emergency Friday as island nation grapples with rising prices, shortages of essentials and rolling power cuts, implemented countrywide curfew after protests turned violent
Protesters in the Sri Lanka’s largest city Colombo held numerous small, peaceful demonstrations over a severe economic crisis on Sunday, defying a nationwide curfew, while police used tear gas to disperse student protesters in the central city of Kandy.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency on Friday as the Indian Ocean island nation grapples with rising prices, shortages of essentials and rolling power cuts. On Saturday, the government implemented a countrywide curfew after protests turned violent. Critics say the roots of the crisis, the worst in several decades, lie in economic mismanagement by successive governments that amassed huge budget shortfalls and a current account deficit.
Around two dozen opposition leaders protested at police barricades near the Independence Square, some shouting “Gota Go Home”.
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