Tag: Sri Lanka politics

Methodist Bishop Asiri Perera said Rajapaksa’s resignation “will be the first step for the recovery of the nation”

The Church leader said the president and his government “have no moral right to continue office anymore under these circumstances”

Every year, on May 18, Sri Lankan Tamils mark Mullaivaikkal Memorial Day commemorating those who died in the civil war that ended in 2009

The prelates said that among the tasks of the interim government is the immediate provision of basic needs for the people

The Central Bank governor said it was critical that a new administration take charge by Friday or the country would suffer a catastrophe

Among those injured in the violent dispersals of the demonstrations were Catholic and Anglican Church leaders

Sri Lanka has suffered months of blackouts and dire shortages of food, fuel and medicines in its worst economic crisis since independence

Months of blackouts and acute shortages of food, fuel and pharmaceuticals have seen widespread suffering across the South Asian island nation

Public anger has sparked sustained protests demanding the government resign over its mismanagement of the economic crisis

Regular blackouts, acute shortages of food and fuel and record inflation have sparked increasing public discontent in the country