Why Sri Lanka needs a People’s Council
The legal community, most of them, accepted the Aragalaya and stood by it when the police began the current suppression.
The legal community, most of them, accepted the Aragalaya and stood by it when the police began the current suppression.
"Gotabaya should return to the country and people will welcome him but he would not continue in politics as he is not suitable," Weeratunga, who was critical of the role of Gotabaya as a President, told media.
The ousted President holds a diplomatic passport that allows him entry into Thailand for 90 days.
It is essential that it does or else the hope of political stability and getting out of the economic pit will prove to be elusive.
The legal complaint states that Gotabaya Rajapaksa committed violations of international humanitarian law and international criminal law during the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Downside risks about which the IMF had previously warned have now materialized” Ms Georgiva said this to a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank Governors in Indonesia.
The winner will take charge of a bankrupt nation that is in talks with the IMF for a bailout, with its 22 million people enduring severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
It certainly provided for filling the vacuum left by a departing President during his term but didn’t foresee the eccentricities of such a President who would appoint as PM a person rejected by the people.
Sri Lanka is facing an economic and political crisis with inflation and severe shortage of fuel and other essential supplies.
Thousands of miles away from the theatre of war, Sri Lanka felt the heat. Food, fuel, fertilizers and everything else needed for decent living are getting too expensive for the common man.
