Why Is Sri Lanka in Such Turmoil?

Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties met on Sunday to agree on a new government, a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign. The meeting comes after thousands of protesters stormed both leaders’ homes and set fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the economic crisis. Soldiers were deployed around Colombo and Chief of Defense Staff Shavendra Silva called for public support to maintain law and order. Inside Edition Digital’s Stephanie Officer explains.

[mattmgp]

Power to the people, this should be a lesson to all politicians

[zetagundamx]

Proud of this country for doing the impossible. Unity and willpower will always overcome the corruption and evil of many politicians

[vandenriesen]

They Came, they Confronted, they Conquered. They have every right to oust the rulers whom they elected but failed them.

[mandyinseattle]

Turmoil, maybe, but I ADMIRE that they took their government and their future into their own hands. They cared enough to do that (and were desperate enough).

[Warshuk]

" Trust takes years to build, seconds to breaks and forever to repair"
That's an amazing quote right there 🥰.

[maryserrano]

My hats off to the people for having the courage, to stand up to the corruption in their country.

[MrQbenDanny]

RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA 🇱🇰 👏.

[tammy]

I may not be living there anymore but seeing the rest of my family and the entire nation suffering was devastating. Well done Sri Lanka for finally getting rid of that corrupt family!! Proud to be Sri Lankan!

[thehairysnot]

Credit to the people, democracy is political people working for their voters not the other way around

[malcommalik]

I noticed news media did not show the presidents hundreds of luxury and sports cars, did not show his many homes or discussed his secret accounts. Why didn't the media provide accurate coverage?

[lan]

Standing up!! Prayers to the people!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[kishanl]

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty".

[basixbuzz]

Sri Lankans showed to the world what peoples power is! Hats off 👏 🔥

[celebvillage]

Much can be done when the people unite

[sanjeewapeiris]

Proud of my country! After many hardships and protesting for nearly six months, being beaten up by the police, by the army and by the STF, we finally achieved it and managed to send gota out of presidency! However, y’all didn’t show the cars and other lavish luxuries discovered by protestors at gotabhaya’s house. That is what our money and taxes were being used for. Either way, I cannot wait until tomorrow when he officially steps down.

[BabbyCat]

Its only a matter of time before this happens in every other country.

[sandriyasenarathne]

As a srilankan, I'm am so proud of that we were able to do something like this .
Yeah srilankan is a poor country but the efforts of the people of our country is very rich.
We won after many years of war, but the credit went to the RAJAPAKSAS
This is the rudest family i ever seen.
READ MORE ABOUT OUR SORROW FOR OUR COUNTRY.

[sithijathathsara]

This is why i love being a sri lankan the unity and love of the people

[jaxypassionblocks]

you think they'll have a Jan. 6th hearing??

[ChemicalXII]

"U.S. leftist should be calling that 'The darkest day in Sri Lankan history.', LoL.".