Crowds Jeer Sri Lankan PM: "We Will Worship You- If You Leave"
NDTV
Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Months of blackouts and acute shortages of food, fuel and medicines have caused widespread suffering across Sri Lanka, which is enduring its worst-ever economic downturn.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was booed and heckled Sunday on his first public outing since protests erupted across the country demanding his ruling family resign over the worsening economic crisis.
Months of blackouts and acute shortages of food, fuel and medicines have caused widespread suffering across the South Asian island, which is enduring its worst-ever economic downturn.
Sunday saw the premier, brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, visited one of the holiest Buddhist temples -- housing a reputedly 23-century-old tree -- in Anuradhapura.
But dozens of men and women carried hand-written placards and chanted slogans demanding that "thieves" be banned from the sacred city, which lies 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Colombo.
