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Sri Lanka crisis: Rajapaksa s announcement to resign came soon after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he would leave office. Pressure on both leaders grew as the economic meltdown set off acute shortages of essential items, leaving people struggling to buy food, fuel and other necessities. ....
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 until recently, prime minister in his brother s government. critics blame them directly for the country s woes. we got here because of sheer incompetence, mismanagement, and greed. and the rajapaksa family embodied that. they embodied three things that have brought sri lanka down the first is authoritarianism, the second is corruption, and the third is ethnic chauvinism. and all of this came to a head when gotabaya rajapa ksa became president. as sri lanka s economic problems mounted and fuel prices rose, protests broke out earlier this year. ordinary people turning their fury on the government. on the 1st of april, a state of emergency was declared, but the protests went on. ....
Soon after Sri Lankan protesters stormed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's house, a video of the youths wrestling on his bed in WWE style went viral. ....