Tear gas was fired on demonstrators protesting against dire food, fuel and power shortages.
Sri Lankan police imposed curfew and fired tear gas after a demonstration outside the president's house to protest dire food, fuel and power shortages turned violent.
The protest outside the President's house began peacefully, but participants say things turned violent after police fired tear gas, water cannons and also beat people present. A number have also been detained.The demonstrations mark a massive turnaround in popularity for Mr Rajapaksa who swept into power with a majority win in 2019, promising stability and a "strong hand" to rule the country.
The government has been blaming the crisis on the pandemic's impact on tourism - one of the island nation's main sources of foreign revenue - along with a series of attacks on churches on Easter Sunday 2019 which led to a marked drop in tourists."This is an implosion, an accumulated outcome of what has been building up for a couple of decades and as usual there is no one to take responsibility for it.
Accordingly, foreign reserves which stood at $7.6bn at the end of 2019 have now fallen to a level of $2.3 bn; of those reserves, usable reserves have fallen to some $300mn.
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