‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests
Aljazeera says A MAINLY youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days.
During the period, the protesters forced a president and a prime minister – both brothers from the powerful but now-unpopular Rajapaksa clan – to resign, with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa even fleeing the country last week to escape the uprising.
It was the first time in Sri Lanka’s history that a serving head of state had resigned.
Gotabaya’s elder brother and patriarch of the clan, Mahinda Rajapaksa, was forced to quit as prime minister in May after an attack on the main protest site in the capital Colombo by his supporters led to violence throughout the island.
