An economic crisis in Sri Lanka is now threatening starvation for the poorest citizens. Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports on a disaster still unfolding
As Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948, the blame has fallen at the feet of one man: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, known to many as Gota.
As the Guardian’s south Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen tells Michael Safi, Rajapaksa was elected in 2019 amid nationalistic fervour and a wave of support from the country’s Sinhalese Buddhist majority. But over the past three years, under his watch – and what many are calling “criminal financial mismanagement” – the economy has gone into freefall.
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