Crowds jeer Sri Lankan PM on rare outing

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Boos and Heckles welcomed Prime Minister Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday about his first public sightseeing since the national protest erupted demanding that the family in power resigned over the determination of the economic crisis.

The month of extinguishing and lack of acute food, fuel, and medicines has caused extensive suffering throughout the island of South Asia in the worst decline

On Sunday, the Prime Minister visited one of the most holy Buddhist temples-accommodating 2,300 years old trees that were said to be Anuradhapura.

But dozens of people carrying handwritten plaques and shouting slogans that demand that “thieves” be prohibited from the holy city, 200 kilometers (125 miles) in northern Colombo.

The Special Armed Task Force Command (STF) was deployed while the police moved to clean the road for a convoy of six Rajapaksa vehicles.

Some of the main roads in the country are blocked by people who protest the lack of cooking gas, gasoline and diesel.

In the capital, a truck carrying cooking gas was looted on Sunday by many people who had been waiting in the queue last night for supplies.

The number of police watched without power when people climbed into trucks and passed with 84 gas cylinders, officials said.

The government imposed an emergency that gave a great military power to arrest and arrest people on Friday, after the union made the country virtually jammed in an effort to suppress President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign.

The Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Sunday that anti-government demonstrators behaved in provocative and threatening ways” and disrupted important services.

The union said they would hold protests every day from Monday to pressure the government to revoke an emergency.

Union leader Ravi Kumudesh said they would mobilize state and private sector workers to invade national parliament when opening the next session on May 17.

We also want the government to raise an emergency because it is not a solution,” said Mr. Kumudesh in a statement. “What we want is the president and his family left.”