The July 9 Sri Lankan protest was the result of the country's economic meltdown that has triggered rampant inflation and acute shortages of fuel, food and medicine. DW's Aparnaramm spoke to a few protesters about how the crisis impacts their lives:
"It is a situation of life and death here. No jobs, no money to buy food nor a way out from the country," said Shanthi, a 50-year-old single mother who lives just outside the Sri Lankan capital Colombo. , the same day the nation's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to step down after tens of thousands stormed the presidential palace in Colombo demanding his resignation.
"I wanted my son to go abroad and work," she said."But we could not even get a passport. The government system is not working. My son has studied motor mechanics. But he has no job. We tried every which way to get him one. But no one is ready to provide jobs. My daughter luckily got work. But she is paid a low salary."
Jafreen added that they used to cook food with gas, then were forced to get a kerosene stove, and now his family of seven have no option but to cook food with firewood. "We do not have any reserves left and this is because of the pure mismanagement of the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa," added Krishnaswamy Harendran, a local journalist in Colombo."People walked miles together to make the protests happen. The resignation of the officials is the temporary victory."The last Rajapaksa resigns
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