hospitalized and several found dead, including a member of Parliament, in Sri Lanka following a violent mob attack on a protester encampment in the capital, Colombo.
Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror has published multiple shocking
videos of the homes of ministers, members of parliament, former
government officials, and the most powerful person in the country, Prime
Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, completely engulfed in flames. Rajapaksa
announced his resignation before his house was set on first on Monday.
Sri Lanka has been experiencing months of protests – most of them
peaceful prior to Monday – in response to the worst economic crisis in
its history. The country, a democratic socialist republic, is facing
all-consuming shortages of gasoline, good, medicine, and nearly every
basic good. Government policies
under Rajapaksa, who was president from 2005 to 2015, and his brother,
current President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, resulted in a major debt default that
handed over its key Hambantota port to China and over-reliance on
importing food and that caused major shortages triggered in part by the
war between Russia and Ukraine. Gotabaya Rajapaksa exacerbated shortages by banning chemical fertilizers for farmers, limiting the domestic food supply.
“Following the attacks on the two main protest sites, SLPP Polonnaruwa
District MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala’s vehicle was mobbed by a group when
it reached Nittambuwa on Monday (9) afternoon. Following an
altercation, shots were fired, and the MP died,” Sri Lanka’s News First
reported." Breitbart
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