{"id":43417,"date":"2022-04-11T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/10\/protesters-sri-lanka-colombo-president-economic-crisis-video"},"modified":"2022-04-11T00:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:00:41","slug":"thousands-of-protesters-in-sri-lanka-call-for-president-to-resign-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43417","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka call for president to resign \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators flooded the streets of Colombo on Saturday as pressure mounted on the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is frequently referred to as Gota. Anger in Sri Lanka has intensified over a crippling economic crisis, which is the worst the country has seen since independence, with food, fuel, medicine and electricity increasingly scarce<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/09\/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please\">\u2018We\u2019re finished\u2019: Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/sri-lanka-facing-imminent-threat-of-starvation-senior-politician-warns\">Sri Lanka facing imminent threat of starvation, senior politician warns<br \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/why-are-people-protesting-in-sri-lanka\">Why are people protesting in Sri Lanka?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/10\/protesters-sri-lanka-colombo-president-economic-crisis-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demonstrators flooded the streets of Colombo on Saturday as pressure mounted on the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is frequently referred to as Gota. Anger in Sri Lanka has intensified over a crippling economic crisis, which is the worst the countr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[41,80,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-protest","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\/43417","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43417\/revisions\/43418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}