Tag: Lankans
Sri Lankans await justice, 5 years after Easter bombings
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube More stories on the Sri Lanka bombings: https://sc.mp/4ib96 April 21, 2024, marks five years since the deadliest suicide bombings in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka. Islamist suicide bombers carried out attacks at several luxury hotels and churches in the capital Colombo, resulting in the deaths of 279 people. Saman and Sriyani Sirimanna lost both…
Desperate Sri Lankans seek to escape their country’s worst-ever economic crisis
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Amid Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis, many of its people have been trying to escape the island nation. Many have sought to flee to Australia, where some have been detained and deported back to Sri Lanka, where they face prosecution. Among them is Neenu Mekala, whose husband has been jailed accused of smuggling his family and…
Millions of Sri Lankans go hungry as food prices soar
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Sri Lanka has endured a months-long economic crisis that has seen rampant inflation and civil unrest. The country defaulted on its foreign debts for the first time in its history and its people have faced shortages of fuel, medicine and other essentials. According to the World Food Programme, nearly five million people, or 22 per cent…
Sri Lankans demand president resigns amid nation’s worst economic crisis in 70 years
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Protests continue in Sri Lanka with many demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa amid a deepening economic crisis that has seen inflation reach an all-time high. The nationwide inflation rate was 45.3 per cent in May 2022 according to the most recent data, as Sri Lanka struggles with its worst economic situation since its independence…