Protestors in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, demand the reinstatement of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his United National Party government, in October 2018.
Pro-democracy protestors in Colombo demand the reconvening of Parliament. On 26th October, President Maithripala Sirisena disbanded the cabinet and sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, before appointing former president Mahinda Rajapakse to the PM post. He then prorogued Parliament, and proceeded to pick a new cabinet, plunging the country into a constitutional crisis that remains unresolved almost two weeks later.
A pro-democracy protestor at the Liberty Junction rally in Colombo, on October 30th, 2018. Many placards carried the hashtag #couplk, suggesting that the political crisis in Sri Lanka is in fact an unconstitutional coup.
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