Severe shortages of fuel, food and medicine appear to have unified Sri Lankans against the ruling Rajapaksa family, says Charu Lata Hogg of the Asia Pacific programme at Chatham House
for its population of 22 million. A reliance on expensive food and energy imports is the last thing the cash-strapped nation needed against the backdrop of war in Europe.
These are signs of hope, and offer the battered country a real chance to rebuild its republic and its destiny 50 years after it was formed. The pathways to building a pluralistic and economically stable society are still unclear, but Sri Lankans are demanding change at a pace not seen in previous years.of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009, and chances of peace, reconciliation and equitable development vanished quickly afterwards.
ethnic divide, militarised the Tamil-dominated north and east, and took disastrous financial decisions.
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