How A Family Allegedly “Ruined” Sri Lanka’s Economy | The Big Steal

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Sri Lanka is bankrupt and protestors blame the current economic crisis on just one family.

For the past 20 years the Rajapaksas have been in power, they’ve been accused of financial mismanagement at best and siphoning millions of public funds at worst. But they have never been convicted of any crimes.

At the time of publishing, Ranil Wickremesinghe has been appointed the president of Sri Lanka. former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had fled to Singapore. The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has imposed an overseas travel ban on his brothers, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa.

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50 COMMENTS

  1. The irony is that 1000 years there was a king in Sri lanka called Mahinda. He was described in Tamil and Singhalese records as a incompetent king. He was defeated by Raja Chola of the Chola empire. 1000 years later the next Mahinda Rajapaksa was the next incompetent leader. 😂

  2. Karma karma 🔥☠️

    Fake History written by Sri Lankan poets in A bunch of worthless books 📚 called the Mahāvaṃsa. Mahāvaṃsa Is just Glorified fake history n propaganda. The same reason the idiots of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 introduced the Sinhala Only Act n killed over 150000 innocent people, Black July 1983 and today so called Sinhala Buddhist Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 is bankrupt n begging for food n petrol ⛽️. Asoka did not build 84000 temples. Fake propaganda. Sri Lankans 🇱🇰 fell for this nonsense n lost $200 Billion dollars 💵 in wars with Tamils .

    These fake propaganda destroyed Buddhism ☸️ n Sri Lanka 🇱🇰.

  3. Such a disgusting family in srilanka..they mess with srilanken people.they want make namal rajapaksha to President of srilanka.people are going cazy and fedeup with this carzy family

  4. This beautiful place srilanka is beautiful now because 3 more lakh tamil eena people murdered in this historical place only, not only murdered females are raped, kids killed brutally, 3more lakh people blood brutally drunken by your beautiful place

  5. Dhrogathin ucham, tamil eena makkal padukolai, vellupillai prabhakaran sir killed by this pakshe government only, people not only killed by indian government and srilanka army, they r raped tourchored muredered, so many childrens killed by this government only, then for u people also the same he has doing

  6. රාජපක්ෂවරුන් කෙරෙහි තිබු සහජ අනුකම්පාව තවදුරටත් ලංකාවාසීන් අතර නැත, ජනතාවගේ කෝපය ඉක්මනින්ම පිටාර ගලන්නේ කෙසේදැයි සිතාගත නොහැකි තරම්ය.

  7. It is Sinhala Buddhist supremacist ideology that led to the rise of Elam as well corrupt leaders like Rajapakshas coming to power in the guise of saving the nation. Even though it is called a buddhist country vast majority of people do not understand or follow Lord Buddha's concept of equity for all living beings.

  8. Entire Western media is nothing but a propaganda tool to put pressure on non-Western countries.

    Western media is FAR from what we can call free media organizations.

    It's a new form of Western colonization that includes giant media propaganda tools like CNN, BBC, ABC, The guardian, Vice, Washington post, NY Times, fraud indexes like democracy rankings, happiness index, press freedom rankings, 100s of fraud NGOs which take money from western deep states.

  9. I think corruption and war made the country down. Wherever there is a war , the country can not get back to normal for ever.
    So ,we should not encourage for a war in any country. To avoid war ,all citizens should be treated as same with all rights.
    People also responsible for this situation

  10. Appointing members of your own family or near relatives in important positions in assembly , government or executive positions is the first step towards doom of a nation .

    Meritocracy is the only way forward .

  11. Very good document you did best research, whatever they did for Tamils now time for experience entire people of Ealam. Tamils haven' this experience since independence nothing surprises.

  12. As a tamil, I'm happy to see Sri lanka going into a deeper hole. I hope tamils will get a their right full land from the Chinese when the take over

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