COLOMBO, April 24 — Thousands of Sri Lankan university students mobbed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s home today demanding his resignation over the island nation’s worsening economic crisis.
“You can block the road, but can’t stop our struggle until the entire government goes home,” one unidentified student leader said while standing on top of the walls. Police said Mahinda Rajapaksa, the head of Sri Lanka’s ruling clan, was not on the premises at the time and the crowd left peacefully. This week a man was shot dead when police fired on a road blockade in the central town of Rambukkana—the first fatality since protests last month.
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