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A group described by local press as IT professionals protested at a roundabout in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Friday, April 8, as they called for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign amid food and ...
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
Between 2008 and 2009, major protests against the Sri Lankan civil war (often referred to as the Tamil protests by Western news media) took place in several countries around the world, urging national and world leaders and organisations to take action on bringing a unanimous cease fire to the Sri Lankan Civil War, which had taken place for twenty-six years. [1]
COLOMBO (Reuters) -At an auspicious time early on Thursday, Dilani Jayaratne lit a small wood fire to boil a small pot of milk to mark the start of Sri Lanka's New Year. Demonstrations have raged ...
(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a decree to avoid further disruption to electricity supplies after workers at a state-run utility threatened to strike. Most Read from ...
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) provided Watchdog with $340,000 in funding, allowing it to hire full-time staffers. [1] Reuters used Watchdog's data to map the protests taking place across the country , [ 1 ] [ 4 ] and the Daily Mirror newspaper used its data to counter then- Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa 's ...
2011 Sri Lanka worker protests; 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis; 2022 Sri Lankan protests This page was last edited on 22 December 2019, at 00:33 (UTC). ...