Sri Lanka crisis timeline

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 11, 2022 12:25 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis, and on Saturday the country's president offered his resignation after being forced to flee his residence in the face of a huge crowd of protesters who eventually stormed the compound.

The island nation of 22 million people has suffered months of lengthy blackouts, acute food and fuel shortages, and galloping inflation in its most painful downturn on record.

BELLIGERENT A Buddhist monk throws back a tear gas canister fired by the police to disperse protesters demanding the resignation of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa gather near the compound of Sri Lanka’s Presidential Palace in Colombo on Saturday, July 9, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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