Sri Lanka Crisis Live News Updates: Dinesh Gunawardena takes oath as new prime minister hours after protest site raid

Kairi brown July 22, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka Live Today: Dinesh Gunawardena Thursday took Oath as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister a few hours after the police raided the protest camp and arrested nine people. Opposition leader Sajith Premradasa reacts to early morning attacks from the Galle Face Protest Site in Colombo and calls it “useless ego appearance.”

During the daytime, dozens of troops in Riot Gear lined up through the area and the lines of tents -protesting tents that stand on both sides of the main road that passed in front of the President’s Secretariat were completely lost. The media recordings from the site showed armed soldiers with an assault rifle who tried to knock down the camp when dozens of police were watching. At least 50 protesters were injured, said the organizer, including several journalists who were beaten by security forces. Hospital sources said two were hospitalized.

The demonstrators will soon occur under the new President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is seen as an ally of his predecessor, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Wickremesinghe, who vowed on Thursday, was scheduled to appoint his new cabinet on Friday.

Sri Lanka troops make arrests, clear main protest sites

Sri Lanka’s security forces arrested several people on Friday morning and cleaned the protesters of the main camp that had been occupied for more than three months while demanding the leaders of the country to resign over the unprecedented economic collapse.

Army and police personnel arrived at trucks and bus around midnight, removing tents and protested banners at a location near the Presidential Palace in the capital, Colombo, where the demonstrators had gathered for the last 104 days. They block the road to the site and carry a long pole. The security forces were witnessed to beat at least two journalists.

Why does Sri Lanka just need a Tamil leader

There was no call to “neutral referee”. There is no politician who made a big promise. There is no religious leader who spreads communal hatred. Only people. Or even better, people – Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Buddhism, Hinduism. Students, parents and grandparents, professionals – teachers, nurses, lawyers, bankers, doctors, computer engineers.

From 9 April to 9 July, as an economic crisis caused by a shortage of dollars that were suddenly manifested with lack of food, fuel and drugs, Sri Lanka from all hue collected at Galle Face Oceanfront, with only one request: “Gota go home “. They do not have a leader but they are well organized. Carefully, they clean the protest site every morning and evening, as if delivering the cleaning of Sri Lanka itself. Getting out of plastic waste, they created works of art in the pedestrian area.