Protesters surrounded the Sri Lankan PM’s office, demanding he and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign amid the economic meltdown. “We want everything that was taken away from us. Need our money back,” one protester said.
Sri Lanka Crisis: The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka has instructed the Military and the Police in a televised address "to do whatever necessary to restore order" in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka’s opposition parties were meeting Sunday to agree on new government after the president and premier offered to resign following political turmoil.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament on Wednesday that the South Asian country is “facing a far more serious situation beyond the mere shortages of fuel, gas, electricity and food. Our economy has completely collapsed.”