Global Exclusive: Sri Lankan crisis fully discussed with Senior Sri Lankan Journalist.
In the past few months, the island nation is going through a tough time. News Tap Global’s Founder and Editor Sai Ram B spoke to Dasun Edirisinghe, Senior Journalist with The Island Newspaper, one of the main English Dailies in Sri Lanka.
Question: How is Sri Lanka being affected by the violence happening?
Answer: Not just because of violence prevailed for several days, but people are suffering as there was a severe shortage of medicine, fuel, gas and most essential items due to the foreign exchange crisis.Â
Question: What will convince the anger of the people of Sri Lanka to stop violence?
Answer: People are urging the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. They were demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier and got success. A new PM was appointed a few hours ago. Now the situation has returned back to normal but still protesting against the President.Â
Question: What was the contribution of the Leadership of Sri Lanka, for the Nation to come to this stage?
Answer: The current economic crisis did not happen overnight. It is a result of corruption and mismanagement of the Governments since independence. Most politicians have corruption charges against them. But the people did not oppose the way they are opposing now. The reason why things are a bit heated up here is the severe foreign exchange crisis and its effects on imports.
Question: As is being speculated by the overseas media, stating the role of the Rajyapaksa family in the current crisis of the nation, how true is it?
Answer: Not really. But for some extent. Not everything that is being circulated in the international arena is true. But to some extent, they should take the responsibility for the current mess. It is really difficult to explain the reasons behind the current economic crisis. But they hid the truth. The fake control of the dollar rate had a negative impact on the country’s economy. Â
Question: As also speculated by some Media, the role of a foreign country is being reported as responsible for Sri Lanka’s situation today, how true is it?
Answer: To say so, we should have evidence. Therefore, we can’t directly say that this is occurred because of any foreign involvement.Â
Question: How is the situation on ground in the country?
Answer: At the moment, the situation is under control and a new Prime Minister appointed. But people’s protests continue demanding the resignation of the President.
The situation in Sri Lanka is very bad. Very well explained .Dasun is a person who always talks about criticizing problems well. The only thing left is to enjoy the resources, especially the oil and food collaboration.
The situation in Sri Lanka is very bad. Very well explained .Dasun is a person who always talks about criticizing problems well. The only thing left is to enjoy the resources, especially the oil and food collaboration.
Forex crisis is due to decisions of one person who implemented projects which are unsustainable for the fat commissions he received.But our educational and health indices arecomparatively very high,unfortunately ourfirst prime minister died at a comparatively youngage if not economic situation would have been different .He managed to sustain racial and religious amity Lee Kuang Yews success is that he managed this factor well and his zero tolerance to corruption .You managed theInterview wellMy comments is not a reflection on you.