Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dhammika Prasad on Friday started a 24-hour starvation strike urging the rustic’s leaders to ship justice to the Easter Sunday assault sufferers and other folks of the island-nation who’re affected by the present financial disaster.
Prasad joined the anti-Rajapaksa protesters on the Galle Face esplanade situated close to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s secretariat.
He’s staging the protest to call for justice for the sufferers of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings which killed 269 other folks.
“I need justice for all blameless sufferers of the bombings,” Prasad informed newshounds.
Prasad, 39, performed 25 Assessments and 24 ODIs between 2006 to 2015 taking 75 and 32 wickets respectively within the two codecs.
The Easter Sunday bombings and its investigations have brought about many political headlines with the Catholic church accusing the federal government of a cover-up.
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith the Archbishop of Colombo, is at the leading edge of the marketing campaign to hunt justice for the sufferers.
He has many times accused the federal government of protecting up investigations for political wishes.
Six near-simultaneous suicide blasts at 3 church buildings and 3 vacationer accommodations on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, killed 269 other folks.
A person left the fourth resort with out environment off his bomb however later killed himself via detonating his explosives at a distinct location.
Amongst the ones killed have been worshippers at Easter services and products and vacationers having breakfast at their accommodations.
Two native Muslim teams that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State team have been blamed for the assaults.
In the meantime, the Galle Face protests have entered their 7th day with increasingly adolescence becoming a member of it each and every passing day. They urge the resignation of President Gotabaya for his incompetence in dealing with the island’s worst-ever financial disaster.
The protest marketing campaign has been operating on social media, urging youths to collect at Galle Face. But even so, there were proceeding protests around the island, blaming the federal government for its mishandling of the foreign exchange disaster which resulted in critical shortages of necessities.
The island country is in the middle of one of the vital worst financial crises it’s ever noticed. It has simply defaulted on its international money owed for the primary time since its independence, and the rustic’s 22 million persons are going through crippling 12-hour energy cuts, and an excessive shortage of meals, gas and different crucial pieces similar to drugs.
Protesters celebrated the standard Sinhala and Tamil New 12 months on the web site on Thursday which was once marked via the announcement that world ranking companies Fitch and Usual and Deficient have additional downgraded the Sri Lankan financial system.
The ranking company downgraded got here as Sri Lanka introduced its incapacity to satisfy its debt fee.
The federal government stated it was once postponing all world debt servicing with impact from 12 April, the primary such example within the island’s unbiased historical past of 74 years.