It was their second consecutive day at Galle Face, a stretch in front of the Sea Breezy Colombo, when they frustrated without stopping, asking President Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa to retreat.Young men and women’s scores now live in the day and night, right next to the presidential secretariat, within a distance like city tent resistance. The protesters who are part of the ‘Occupy Galle Face’ movement have a simple message to the most powerful man in the country – “We will not go home unless you do it.”In the midst of the economic crisis Sri Lanka deteriorated, manifests in severe essential shortcomings, skyrocketing prices, and old power cuts, citizens began protesting in bags more than a month ago, in various parts of the country. Gaining momentum for the past few weeks, protests peaked in a massive performances of public opinion in Galle Face last weekend.
Some protesters really stayed in that place since then, sleeping in a temporary tent and under the tree, challenging a big storm, as Colombo experienced on Monday night.”We don’t sleep much, really,” said Mary Suwen, smiling calmly. He cleaned the mud in his tent on the site, now called ‘Gotagogama’, or ‘Goa Go Village’, as a trilingual board stated in Sinhala, Tamil and England. “This country faces a crisis as before and our leaders and governments are not aware of what people do. We want them to all leave,” said the 26-year-old civil engineer.In the beginning of 2020, the President allocated an empty plot adjacent to his office as a “dedicated demonstration site ‘, showing the world that he was a leader who was tolerant of dissent. The few he would imagine that it would, in two years, becoming a resistance site Rigid to him and his family.
There are around 25 tents at the location now, where dozens are seen on Tuesday morning. There are 30 more tents on “Standby”, according to the demonstrators. Residents sympathize in protests have regularly contributed food, water and medicine, in nearby stalls. The cellular toilet has been arranged and the ambulance is parked right in front.Some young men in the venue on Tuesday morning were cleaning up garbage, patiently separating waste to the source, while others aired their tents.Some gathered around the entrance of the presidential secretariat, sitting in high barricades right in front, and chanting slogans using megaphone. “Your children are in America, our children are on the streets”, they shout together in Sinhala, occasionally, repeating their core requests – “Go Home Gota”, persistent calls considered by the President.
Mr. Gotabaya last spoke to citizens on March 16. He told them at the television address that he was “determined to make difficult decisions to find a solution for the inconvenience experienced by people.” But angry residents say their suffering only increased in recent weeks. At least seven people were killed while waiting in a long queue for gasoline. The doctor desperately looks for urgent medical supplies and drugs saving lives for newborns and other patients. Poor families survive with just one meal.In his first address after the crisis increased, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday asked you to protest to be patient, while remembering years in political activism and his government military defeat.
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