{"id":46242,"date":"2022-07-10T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T02:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lanka-crisis-timeline-from-galloping-inflation-to-a-presidents-resignation"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:09:15","slug":"sri-lanka-crisis-timeline-from-galloping-inflation-to-a-presidents-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46242","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka crisis timeline: from galloping inflation to a president\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s president offered his resignation via email after months of protests against lengthy blackouts, acute food and fuel shortages<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis and the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has offered his resignation after being forced to flee his residence in the face of a huge crowd of protesters who eventually stormed the compound.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters in the island nation of 22 million people demanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/09\/sri-lanka-protests-thousands-storm-presidents-residence-colombo\">the resignation<\/a> after suffering months of lengthy blackouts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/04\/sri-lanka-limits-fuel-to-essential-services-petrol-station-queues\">acute food and fuel shortages<\/a> and galloping inflation in its most painful downturn on record. Here is a look back at how the crisis has unfolded:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lanka-crisis-timeline-from-galloping-inflation-to-a-presidents-resignation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s president offered his resignation via email after months of protests against lengthy blackouts, acute food and fuel shortagesSri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis and the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has offered his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/46242","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46449,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242\/revisions\/46449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}