Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled to Maldives on Wednesday followed by an uprising triggered due to the economic collapse of the island nation, is now waiting to travel further to Singapore.
queue for passports. a chance to leave their troubled homeland, in search of something better. many trying to make it to the middle east. like this woman who is hoping to find work as a cleaner to support her six year old. how do you feel about wanting to leave sri lanka? your heart is in sri lanka? she says she is going because she is struggling to even get food and that is one of the reasons why she is trying to find work in kuwait. i’m trying to find work in kuwait. i m ”lannin trying to find work in kuwait. i m planning to trying to find work in kuwait. in planning to go to the uk, we don t see any future so we want to move out of this country for our kids, not for us. a, out of this country for our kids, not for na not for us. a lot of pressure for gotabaya not for us. a lot of pressure for gotabaya rajapaksa to - not for us. a lot of pressure for gotabaya rajapaksa to step - not for us. a lot of pressure for. gotabaya rajapaksa to step down, not for us. a lot of pressure
you vote for him? yes, but we did not expect this. you vote for him? yes, but we did not expect this. and you vote for him? yes, but we did not expect this. and it you vote for him? yes, but we did not expect this. and it is - you vote for him? yes, but we did not expect this. and it is not just l not expect this. and it is notjust not expect this. and it is not ust these crowds fl not expect this. and it is not ust these crowds who are i not expect this. and it is not ust these crowds who are trying h not expect this. and it is notjust these crowds who are trying to l not expect this. and it is not just - these crowds who are trying to leave these crowds who are trying to leave the country, the very people who are blamed for creating this economic crisis, president gotabaya rajapaksa and his family members, are also trying to flee the island. this video is believed to have been recorded at the airport as former finance minister basil rajapaksa was stopped at immigration. ton
and these protesters, they want a new beginning for sri lanka, a new political culture, so they will not face the similar economic crisis in this country. anbarasan ethirajan, bbc news, colombo. sri lanka has run out of foreign currency and has imposed a ban on petrol and diesel sales for private vehicles. so why is the country experiencing such turmoil? caroline hawley explains. sri lanka s best known perhaps to the world as a place of beautiful beaches. a country of 22 million people that was recovering from a vicious civil war. like everywhere else, it was hit hard by covid but the roots of this latest crisis are far deeper than that. these are the rajapaksa brothers, who have dominated politics in sri lanka for years. gotabaya, on the right, president now for a few more days. mahinda, on the left, a former president