Namal Rajapaksa claims an “outside hand” was involved in the fall of the Rajapaksa government during the Sri Lankan Aragalaya protests, calling for a probe into United States Agency for International Development funding and NGO activities in Sri Lanka.

#SriLanka #Aragalaya #Rajapaksa #USAID

During 2022 #Aragalaya, 11 people were #killed. Majoriy were ordinary citizens. Forget any convictions; system was unable to find anyone responsible for them. Among the dead; was a politician & his bodyguard shot at the crowd. For that, system managed to sentense 12 people for death.

#lka #SriLanka

Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah | Left Feminism in and after the Aragalaya Chulani Kodikara is a director of the Social Scientists’ Association and an editor of Polity. Amalini de Sayrah is a writer, photo-journalist, and activist.

The efforts of women in and around the 2022 #Aragalaya to give meaning and substance to the demand for "system change" from a left feminist perspective, are retraced by Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah.

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Soulèvements de la jeunesse en Asie du Sud : trois pays, trois ans, une crise Trois soulèvements en trois ans ont ébranlé l'Asie du Sud jusqu'en son cœur. L'Aragalaya au Sri Lanka en 2022, la révolution menée par les étudiants au Bangladesh en juillet 2024, et la révolte de la génération Z au Népal en septembre 2025 ont renversé des gouvernements et mis à nu les échecs (…) -- Asie du Sud

🕸glané sur le net🕸 Soulèvements de la jeunesse en Asie du Sud : trois pays, trois ans, une crise: Trois soulèvements en trois ans ont ébranlé l'Asie du Sud jusqu'en son cœur. L'Aragalaya au Sri Lanka en 2022, la révolution menée par les étudiants au… #Jeunesse #AsieDuSud #Révolution #Aragalaya

අලුතින් පත්වූ ආගමික කටයුතු නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති, අරගලය සමයේ ක්‍රියාකාරී වූ අයුරු දැක්වෙන වීඩියෝවක් ද ? - Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka | The leading fact-checking website දිනපතා සත්‍ය කරුණු දැන ගැනීමට අපගේ WhatsApp චැනලයට මෙතනින් එකතුවන්න. ඉස්ලාම් භක්තිකයෙකු වන නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය එම්.එම්. මොහොමඩ් මුනීර් මහතා අභිනව නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ධුරයේ දිවුරුම් දීම සමග ජාතිවාදය ඇවිස්සීම පෙරදැරිකරගෙන අසත්‍ය තොරතුරු සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ඔස්සේ පැතිරවීම මේ දිනවල දක්නට ලැබෙනවා. එවැනි වීඩියෝවක සත්‍ය සොයා අප සිදු කළ කරුණු විමර්ශන වාර්තාවයි මේ. සමාජ මාධ්‍ය සටහන් (Social Media Posts) […]

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අලුතින් පත්වූ ආගමික කටයුතු නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති, අරගලය සමයේ ක්‍රියාකාරී වූ අයුරු දැක්වෙන වීඩියෝවක් ද ? #lka #Aragalaya #FactCheck 👇
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Southasia's Youthquakes in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka- with Himal Southasian #Nepal #Bangladesh #SriLanka: Three uprisings in three years. Where did they come from? Where are they going? What lessons do that have for each other?A pane...

“The [#SriLankan] government does not want to anger its main constituency, which they consider to be the southern public… they are listening to the bureaucracy which is still the same," says @ambikasat about minimal change in #lka since #Aragalaya

Southasia's Youthquakes - with Himal Southasian ♦️Himal Southasian is Southasia’s first and only regional news and analysis magazine. Stretching from Afghanistan to Burma, from Tibet to the Maldives, this ...

“The [#SriLankan] government does not want to anger its main constituency, which they consider to be the southern public… they are listening to the bureaucracy which is still the same," says Ambika Satkunanathan about minimal change in #lka since #Aragalaya

To Straw Hat Pirates’ Jolly Roger Flag Holders of Nepal Nepali youth have successfully navigated the immediate post-change challenges despite global speculation. Gen Z deserves

#Nepal saw the third popular youth-led uprising in #SouthAsian region after 2022’s #Aragalaya in #SriLanka & #JulyRevolution (2024) in #Bangladesh.

Click to read our exclusive take:
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Explained: Gen Z Protest and Future of Nepal Many believe anger in Nepal had been building up for several months. Tech-savvy students shared stories about the lifestyles of 'Nepo Kids'

It is 3rd popular uprising in South Asian region in recent years.Mass protests 2022 ( #Aragalaya The Struggle) in #SriLanka & #JulyRevolution in #Bangladesh also culminated in ousters of regimes in both countries. 

Read about #GenZProtests in #Nepal 👇🏽

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B. Skanthakumar | Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History B.Skanthakumar is co-editor of Pathways of the Left in Sri Lanka (2014, Colombo: Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue)

#PolityArchive Today is the anniversary of the 1953 ‘Great Hartal’, when the collective action of the masses changed the course of Sri Lanka. Skanthakumar writing in 2023 on its 70th anniversary dissects the causes and reach of the Hartal, with the 2022 #Aragalaya in mind.
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Check out my new article in Anthropological Quarterly: The Language Politics of Aragalaya: A Multilingual Protest Movement in Postwar Sri Lanka #anthro #protestmovements #aragalaya #srilanka #linganth

Résister à la menace de la finance mondiale, construire la souveraineté alimentaire Le 3e Forum Global Nyéléni doit se tenir au Sri Lanka au mois de septembre. Le Sri Lanka n'a pas été choisi au hasard : en 2022, un soulèvement populaire, connu sous le nom d'Aragalaya, a renversé le régime néolibéral qui avait plongé le pays dans une grave crise de la dette et sociétale. Sur (…) -- nyeleni_newsletter_num_60_fr.pdf, Français, Mouvements sociaux, focus-haut-fr, Dette illégitime , Agriculture et souveraineté alimentaire

🕸glané sur le net🕸 Résister à la menace de la finance mondiale, construire la souveraineté alimentaire: Le 3e Forum Global Nyéléni doit se tenir au Sri Lanka au mois de septembre. Le Sri Lanka n'a pas été choisi au hasard… #SouverainetéAlimentaire #FinanceMondiale #ForumNyéléni #SriLanka #Aragalaya

Pradeep Peiris | System Stability not Change: The NPP abandons populism for liberal democracy Pradeep Peiris (PhD., Colombo) is senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Colombo. He is the author of Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in ...

Whatever happened to the populism of the #NPP? Pradeep Peiris asks whether, in politics as well as economics, #SriLanka's progressive political movement is more committed to stabilising than changing what the #Aragalaya rejected.

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Notes on the Sri Lankan struggle The black, red and yellow sign written in bold letters across the white walls of Temple Trees, the official residence of Sri Lanka's prime minister, stated 'mah

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In March 2022, a wave of citizen-led protests began in #SriLanka against government mismanagement that led to an economic crisis. In July,
@marlona.bsky.social made notes on growing public consciousness & police brutality during the #Aragalaya

Notes on the Sri Lankan struggle The black, red and yellow sign written in bold letters across the white walls of Temple Trees, the official residence of Sri Lanka's prime minister, stated 'mah

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In March 2022, a wave of citizen-led protests began in #SriLanka against government mismanagement that led to an economic crisis. In July,
@marlona.bsky.social made notes on growing public consciousness & police brutality during the #Aragalaya

Three years after the #Aragalaya, social media has usurped the traditional media’s influence in #SriLanka's politics. By Amantha Perera in Dec 2024: www.himalmag.com/politics/sri...

Notes on the Sri Lankan struggle The black, red and yellow sign written in bold letters across the white walls of Temple Trees, the official residence of Sri Lanka's prime minister, stated 'mah

FROM THE ARCHIVES: In March 2022, a wave of citizen-led protests began in #SriLanka against government mismanagement that led to an economic crisis. In July,
@marlona.bsky.social made notes on growing public consciousness & police brutality during the #Aragalaya

Pasan Jayasinghe and Amali Wedagedara | Reading the General Election 2024 Pasan Jayasinghe is a PhD candidate in political science at University College London. Amali Wedagedara (PhD, Hawai‘i) is a feminist political economist and a senior researcher at the Bandaranaike Cen...

A fantastic analysis of Sri Lanka's landslide election which carried the mandate of the #Aragalaya movement.

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