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"There are no medicines in the Ayurvedic Hospital only problems. Most of the time they give the best closest medicine to the person due to lack of medicine in the hospital." - Protestors from Ayurveda Junction
#SLNews #LKA #ProtestLK
#SLNews #LKA #ProtestLK
".@IMFNews says the number of state workers is high. Chairman of IMF thinks these people get paid in dollars? If we take in the entire Asian region we are getting a very poor salary." - Protestor
#SLNews #LKA #ProtestLK
#SLNews #LKA #ProtestLK
"There is not enough staff, there should be 700 but only around 200 are there. We should have 100 nurses but only around 40 are there. No new recruitments have been made for the past 10 years." - Protestor
#SLNews #LKA #ProtestLK
#SLNews #LKA #ProtestLK
Protestors “illegally” occupying Sri Lanka’s Galle Face green and adjacent premises have been given time till 5pm Friday August 05 to vacate the area, police said.
#SriLanka #Aragalaya #SLNews #LKA
economynext.com/sri-lankas-gal…
#SriLanka #Aragalaya #SLNews #LKA
economynext.com/sri-lankas-gal…
Sri Lanka’s new President @RW_UNP and others in the government say the protest movement, which was organic at the start, has now been hijacked by subversive or anarchic elements looking to destabilise the country. #ProtestLK #SLNews
.@nuzlyMN, one of the more prominent faces of the Galle Face protests, commenting on Wednesday’s police announcement said the protestors will seek legal recourse. #SLNews #Aragalaya #ProtestLK
ℹ️ This is not a FALSE letter
Here is why 👇 ( Thread )
#SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaprotest #ProtestLK #lka #SriLankaEconomicCrisis
Here is why 👇 ( Thread )
#SriLankaCrisis #SriLankaprotest #ProtestLK #lka #SriLankaEconomicCrisis
මෙම ලිපිය ශ්‍රී ලංකා විදුලි සංදේශ නියාමන කොමිෂන් සභාව විසින් දුරකතන සමාගම් වෙත යැවූ බවට Citizen Fact Check අපට තහවුරු කළ හැක .
කෙසේ වෙතත් එම ලිපිය නිල නොවන ආකාරයට ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත්වූ පසු එම ලිපියේ සඳහන් පරිදි හෙට දිනයේ අන්තර්ජාලය අවහිර කිරීමක් සිදු නොකරන බවට ලංකා විදුලි සංදේශ නියාමන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සභාපති ජයන්ත ද සිල්වා ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට හේතුව කුමක්ද යන්න ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට ප්‍රමාණවත් සාක්ෂි අප සතුව තවමත් නොමැත.
Sri Lanka: Authorities must immediately rescind the emergency regulations and shooting orders that provide excessive powers to the police and military,
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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and take immediate steps to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of peaceful protestors, @amnesty said today.
#SriLanka #protestLK #SriLankaCrisis #lka
#SriLanka #protestLK #SriLankaCrisis #lka
“Authorities in Sri Lanka should carry out a prompt, thorough, impartial, independent, effective and transparent investigation into the reports of violent attacks on peaceful protesters. Authorities should bring to justice those suspected to be responsible and ensure
In my field, there is a concept called "agile", which basically says: "don't plan or attempt grand projects; instead break them down into small goals; focus all energy on achieving the first goal before going to the second". Something, perhaps, to be applied to #ProtestLK
Economic recovery plans, software systems, education -- all those are necessary future steps. However, none of that matters if we don't have a functioning cabinet right now. For that, people (and opposition) are calling for #GoHomeRajapaksas.
For *that*, we need to pressure MPs to abolish the executive presidency (because impeachment will fail). And for that, last month is proof that the best strategy is massive protest. Protests achieved in weeks, what "plans" couldn't achieve for decades in #SriLanka
What's happening in Rambukkana, and anything else that follows, is catastrophic. We can't forget the criminal economic policies that led to this or allow those who advocated for those to be the good guys.
#ProtestLK #SriLanka
(1/21)
#ProtestLK #SriLanka
(1/21)
Even in 2018, Sri Lanka was facing a long term debt issue. It was tough, it was going to be damn difficult to get through. Realistically, the only option we had to pay our debt and keep our reserves, was more debt.
So we started that.
(2/21)
So we started that.
(2/21)
Why not hope for investment? In addition to the varied issues behind import substitution - a big factor is its difficult to convince huge investment in a country under debt distress. That means shady deals more often than not.
(3/21)
(3/21)
Let me go through how remittances work and make a plea, please send money to Sri Lanka.
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka #ProtestLK #EconomicCrisisLK (also #GoHomeGota #GoHomeGota2022 #GotaGoGama for reach)
(1/11)
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka #ProtestLK #EconomicCrisisLK (also #GoHomeGota #GoHomeGota2022 #GotaGoGama for reach)
(1/11)
Think of remittances as when money from outside SL comes into SL on a personal basis.
This can either be
A. From a foreign account to your own local account
or
B. From your foreign account to someone's local account.
(2/11)
This can either be
A. From a foreign account to your own local account
or
B. From your foreign account to someone's local account.
(2/11)
Let's take A first.
In this case, your dollars are sent to a bank account held by a local bank. Now, as long as those dollars are there, the bank can allocate those dollars for other purposes, ie for an outflow of dollars.
No Rajapaksas involved.
(3/11)
In this case, your dollars are sent to a bank account held by a local bank. Now, as long as those dollars are there, the bank can allocate those dollars for other purposes, ie for an outflow of dollars.
No Rajapaksas involved.
(3/11)
Going to quickly explain what reserves are and how corruption can/cannot play into it.
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka #ProtestLK #EconomicCrisisLK
(1/9)
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka #ProtestLK #EconomicCrisisLK
(1/9)
Think of reserves as a "portfolio of assets" owned by the Central Bank. It'll have cash, some bonds, some gold, some other assets with the IMF, etc.
Often denominated in USD or another global currency. Ours is USD.
(2/9)
Often denominated in USD or another global currency. Ours is USD.
(2/9)
So reserves are used for 3 broad purposes.
1. To bridge any dollar income/expenses gap the country has - release money from reserves
2. To intervene in foreign exchange market to affect the currency
3. To show confidence internationally that the country has backup money
(3/9)
1. To bridge any dollar income/expenses gap the country has - release money from reserves
2. To intervene in foreign exchange market to affect the currency
3. To show confidence internationally that the country has backup money
(3/9)
Let's go into the story about why focusing on "growing the economy", building factories, "industrialization" etc is just a story of corruption and theft - and won't help us out of this mess.
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka #ProtestLK #EconomicCrisisLK
(1/25)
#SriLankaEconomicCrisis #SriLanka #ProtestLK #EconomicCrisisLK
(1/25)
The obvious reason is that we tried it over the last 2-3 years in different ways, and look where it got us. Yes, covid affects the whole world, but we're the only one this bad. This is the mistake of policy. No one can argue we're doing great.
(2/25)
(2/25)
But let's go beyond the costs and explore why it wouldn't work either.
What policies are proposed?
1. Give low interest loans and other support to "industries" and other "good businesses" (who decides? Lol)
3. Protect local businesses, prevent competition
(3/25)
What policies are proposed?
1. Give low interest loans and other support to "industries" and other "good businesses" (who decides? Lol)
3. Protect local businesses, prevent competition
(3/25)
A weird thing happened near Liberty protest. It was peaceful until a bunch of guys walked out of nowhere and started pushing and shoving the police. They were aggressive. The same ones you see below👇🏽
They were calling other protesters to join in.
#ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests
They were calling other protesters to join in.
#ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests
Eventually, when they saw people weren’t joining in they stopped. And went to the corner and started speaking to this woman. One of the them was hurt. They were calling her ‘Madam’. I saw this Madam earlier as well.
#ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests
#ProtestLK #SriLankaProtests
Here she instructs them not to attack the police. Then she says ´වැඩේ හරිනේ. හරිනේ වැඩේ. එච්චරයි ඔනේ. අපි කරන්න ගිය/ආපු, වැඩේ හරිගියා'
A supporter says: 'අපේ රාඡකාරිය අපි කරනවනේ'
She leaves. Supporters cheer ´ඡය වේවා'.
#SriLankaProtests
A supporter says: 'අපේ රාඡකාරිය අපි කරනවනේ'
She leaves. Supporters cheer ´ඡය වේවා'.
#SriLankaProtests
