Civilian outrage in Sri Lanka has been simmering since 2021 over the effects of commodity shortages, inflation, and economic policy failures that erupted in widespread protests beginning in March this year.
Thousands of demonstrators in the nation’s capital Colombo stormed the president’s official residence and burned the prime minister’s home on July 9, after which house speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena released a video statement saying President Gotabaya Rajapaksa would step down from office on July 13.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also agreed to resign on the same day.
In the meantime, protest leaders say they’ll continue to occupy the official residences of the president and prime minister until they leave office….
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