{"id":43402,"date":"2022-04-09T22:50:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please"},"modified":"2022-04-09T22:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T13:50:02","slug":"were-finished-sri-lankans-pushed-to-the-brink-by-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43402","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re finished\u2019: Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands take to the streets to call for the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa <\/p>\n

As thousands of angry cries and anti-government slogans filled the streets of the Sri Lankan city Colombo on Saturday, Chanda Upul stood quietly nearby, desperately pushing his wares of soft drinks and bottled water on protesters. But in his heart he was chanting along with them.<\/p>\n

As Sri Lanka<\/a> has descended into its worst financial crisis since independence<\/a>, with food, fuel, medicine and electricity becoming increasingly scarce, and calls for the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa \u2013 frequently referred to as Gota \u2013 to step down, 50-year-old Upul, who lives in a poor northern suburb of the city, is among those who have been pushed to the brink of survival.<\/p>\n

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Thousands take to the streets to call for the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa As thousands of angry cries and anti-government slogans filled the streets of the Sri Lankan city Colombo on Saturday, Chanda Upul stood quietly nearby, desperate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[958,80,552,79,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poverty","category-protest","category-social-exclusion","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43408,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43402\/revisions\/43408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}