Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister’s Office on Sunday denied reports of the Prime Minister’s resignation Mahinda Rajapakse and termed him as a “liar” and said that at present there are no such plans.
Sri Lanka is currently facing a foreign exchange crunch which has led to a shortage of food, fuel, electricity and gas and has sought the aid of friendly countries for economic assistance. The country is witnessing prolonged periods of daily power cuts. Its currency has also devalued from around SLR 90 against the US dollar since March 8.
Colombo’s streets were a deserted look on Sunday in what looked like “no man’s land” as the city imposed a curfew on top of an already enforced 36-hour nationwide curfew following protests outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence .
All the cars in the city were parked in the parking lot and the roads are deserted, police force and army personnel are stationed everywhere in the city and checking the vehicles. Yet there were protests in the city and across the country, in which people ransacked. Curfew.
The Colombo Gazette reported that public protests were reported from small streets, apartment complexes and several areas across the country.
Opposition Samagi Jana Balvegaya (SJB) also protested in Colombo against the government today with slogans of “Go Gotabaya Go”, referring to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka on Sunday arrested more than 600 protesters in the Western Province for violating a curfew imposed from 6 pm on Saturday to 6 am on Monday.
Police said 664 people were arrested in the Western Province between 10 pm last night and 6 am today.
A 53-year-old man allegedly drunk during the protests committed suicide in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home in Mirihana, local police said.
Ahead of a planned ‘Arab Spring’-style protest for Sunday, the island nation imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm on Saturday to 6am on Monday (April 4) following unrest in the country. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the midst of the ongoing economic crisis in the island country.
To counter the protests, the Sri Lankan government also imposed a nationwide social media blackout after midnight on Sunday, April 3, according to an internet observatory. Some two dozen social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok were affected. , and Instagram.
Sri Lanka is currently facing a foreign exchange crunch which has led to a shortage of food, fuel, electricity and gas and has sought the aid of friendly countries for economic assistance. The country is witnessing prolonged periods of daily power cuts. Its currency has also devalued from around SLR 90 against the US dollar since March 8.
Colombo’s streets were a deserted look on Sunday in what looked like “no man’s land” as the city imposed a curfew on top of an already enforced 36-hour nationwide curfew following protests outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence .
All the cars in the city were parked in the parking lot and the roads are deserted, police force and army personnel are stationed everywhere in the city and checking the vehicles. Yet there were protests in the city and across the country, in which people ransacked. Curfew.
The Colombo Gazette reported that public protests were reported from small streets, apartment complexes and several areas across the country.
Opposition Samagi Jana Balvegaya (SJB) also protested in Colombo against the government today with slogans of “Go Gotabaya Go”, referring to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka on Sunday arrested more than 600 protesters in the Western Province for violating a curfew imposed from 6 pm on Saturday to 6 am on Monday.
Police said 664 people were arrested in the Western Province between 10 pm last night and 6 am today.
A 53-year-old man allegedly drunk during the protests committed suicide in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home in Mirihana, local police said.
Ahead of a planned ‘Arab Spring’-style protest for Sunday, the island nation imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm on Saturday to 6am on Monday (April 4) following unrest in the country. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the midst of the ongoing economic crisis in the island country.
To counter the protests, the Sri Lankan government also imposed a nationwide social media blackout after midnight on Sunday, April 3, according to an internet observatory. Some two dozen social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok were affected. , and Instagram.