Sri Lankans set up protest camp, vow to stay till Rajapaksa quits
Al JazeeraAs protesters dig in for a long haul, tents come up outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in Colombo. Colombo, Sri Lanka – Angry over a worsening economic crisis, residents of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, have transformed the streets in front of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office into a protest camp. Proud to be Sri Lankan.” “The energy here, I’ve never felt anything like it,” said protester Andy Schubert, as he looked on at the crowds shouting anti-government slogans. ‘People’s uprising’ Most of the protesters are from Colombo’s upper and middle classes – students, teachers, lawyers, architects and software engineers – who say they want nothing less than “total system change”. “Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, and the anger it has generated, have given rise to a protest movement that is so large, so sustained and so widespread that it can be called a non-violent people’s uprising,” said Alan Keenan, senior consultant at the Washington, DC-based International Crisis Group.
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