SRI LANKA ANNOUNCES A STATE OF EMERGENCY AMID PROTESTS OVER THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC DIFFICULTES

  • 02/04/2022

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has imposed a state of emergency in the face of the country's greatest economic crisis. On Friday, Rajapaksa submitted a special gazette proclamation declaring a state of emergency in Sri Lanka, effective April 1. 


Secretary to the President Gamini Senarath issued the Extraordinary Gazette Notification at the President's request.

The move occurred after a violent protest outside Rajapaksa's mansion on Thursday, when hundreds of people gathered and demanded his resignation for what they called his failure to solve the island nation's worst economic crisis. 

As the anger escalated, several people were hurt and vehicles were set on fire. After pulling down a steel barricade near the president's mansion, police fired tear gas and water cannons at the protesters. Several persons were arrested as a result of the incident, and a curfew was briefly imposed in most districts of Colombo.

A currency crisis in Sri Lanka has resulted in a scarcity of vital products such as fuel and cooking gas. Power outages that can last up to 13 hours per day.

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