Sri Lanka Public Anger On Height Burned Down Rajpakshe Properties Along With A Lamborghini Car
By Shivani Kapoor - May 10, 2022
In Sri Lanka, from 9 April, protesters were demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister and the President.
Sri Lanka Crisis: In the unprecedented violence that took place in Sri Lanka on Monday, 5 people were killed and more than 225 were injured. The anger of the people stricken by the economic crisis reached its peak after being attacked by the supporters of the government. Even after the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, there was no dearth of public anger.
These are the 10 major incidents of anti-government violence in Sri Lanka:
1. The protesters not only set fire to the temple tree, the prime minister’s residence of Mahinda Rajapaksa, but also destroyed the Rajapakse museum. In Meda Mulana village, the ancestral village of the ruling Rajapaksa family, a mob attacked the Rajapakse Museum and razed it. There were also two wax statues of the parents of the Rajapaksa brothers, which were vandalized by the mob, and the ancestral home of the Rajapaksa family was also not abandoned by the mob.
2. The political office of the Rajapaksa family was also set ablaze in the north-western town of Kurunegala.
3. A hotel owned by a close aide of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s children was also set on fire. A parked Lamborghini car was also set on fire in this hotel. Police say that all foreign guests are safe.
4. In the capital Colombo, doctors of the National Hospital intervened to save the government supporters injured in the clashes who were injured in the demonstrations against the Rajapaksa family.
5. A doctor shouted to the crowd blocking the way to the hospital’s emergency unit – “They may be murderers, but for us there are patients who should be treated first.”
6. Only 219 were admitted to the National Hospital in Colombo. Of these, 5 are undergoing treatment in the Intensive Care Unit. Hospital spokesperson Pushpa Soysa told AFP. To take the government employees inside the hospital, the soldiers had to forcefully break the lock set by the crowd outside the hospital.
8. An angry anti-government mob pushed dozens of government supporters into the shallow Beira lake near the prime minister’s residence. A man said, “I came because I had got a job from Mahinda, he had prayed for me to be allowed to come out of this highly polluted lake.” Late on Monday night, the police took out dozens of people along with the man from the lake and got them admitted to the hospital.
9. Six vehicles, including two buses of trusted people of the Rajapaksa family, were drowned in the lake by the protesters. On Monday morning, buses in which supporters of the Rajapaksa family had arrived to attack the protesters were set on fire and dozens of buses were damaged across the country.
10. In Maharajamma town, the mob dragged a leader of a pro-government group out of the bus and put him in a garbage cart, and then bulldozed that garbage cart.
Sri Lanka PM Rajapaksa's sons had Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mclaren etc. See what happened to them yesterday.. pic.twitter.com/aPZr10XNCN
— JSP🏴🇲🇾🏴 (@JsPalani) May 11, 2022
