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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 .
Protests and food riots have occurred in more severely affected countries such as Iran, [1] Sri Lanka, [2] Sudan, [3] and Iraq. [32] There have also been riots and other forms of unrest due to food prices rising in Albania , [ 15 ] Kenya , [ 16 ] Indonesia , [ 33 ] Peru , [ 17 ] Ecuador , [ 34 ] Panama , [ 35 ] Argentina , [ 36 ] Tunisia , and ...
H.J.M Seneviratne, 63, slices through yellowed paddy stems dried out by a drought that has destroyed over 95% of his crop and is threatening crisis-hit Sri Lanka's summer rice harvest. Helped by a ...
Sri Lankan police blocked more than a thousand protesters who were attempting to march to the capital's main railroad station on Wednesday to demand the release of two detained protest leaders and ...
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 ...
The Sri Lankan economic crisis [8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities. [10]
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). ...