Ex-Lanka cricketer Dhammika Prasad begins 24-hour starvation strike demanding justice for Easter terror assault victims

Former Sri Lanka cricketer Dhammika Prasad on Friday started a 24-hour starvation strike urging the nation’s leaders to ship justice to the Easter Sunday assault victims and folks of the island-nation who’re affected by the present financial disaster.

Prasad joined the anti-Rajapaksa protesters on the Galle Face esplanade positioned close to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s secretariat.

He is staging the protest to demand justice for the victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings which killed 269 folks.

“I want justice for all innocent victims of the bombings,” Prasad informed reporters.

Prasad, 39, performed 25 Tests and 24 ODIs between 2006 to 2015 taking 75 and 32 wickets respectively within the two codecs.

The Easter Sunday bombings and its investigations have prompted many political headlines with the Catholic church accusing the federal government of a cover-up.

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith the Archbishop of Colombo, is on the forefront of the marketing campaign to hunt justice for the victims.

He has repeatedly accused the federal government of protecting up investigations for political wants.

Six near-simultaneous suicide blasts at three church buildings and three vacationer inns on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, killed 269 folks.

A person left the fourth lodge with out setting off his bomb however later killed himself by detonating his explosives at a special location.

Among these killed had been worshippers at Easter companies and vacationers having breakfast at their inns.

Two native Muslim teams that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group had been blamed for the assaults.

Meanwhile, the Galle Face protests have entered their seventh day with an increasing number of youth becoming a member of it each passing day. They urge the resignation of President Gotabaya for his incompetence in dealing with the island’s worst-ever financial disaster.

The protest marketing campaign has been operating on social media, urging youths to collect at Galle Face. Besides, there have been persevering with protests throughout the island, blaming the federal government for its mishandling of the foreign exchange disaster which led to extreme shortages of necessities.

The island nation is within the midst of one of many worst financial crises it’s ever seen. It has simply defaulted on its international money owed for the primary time since its independence, and the nation’s 22 million individuals are dealing with crippling 12-hour energy cuts, and an excessive shortage of meals, gas and different important gadgets comparable to medicines.

Protesters celebrated the normal Sinhala and Tamil New Year on the web site on Thursday which was marked by the announcement that worldwide score businesses Fitch and Standard and Poor have additional downgraded the Sri Lankan economic system.

The score company downgraded got here as Sri Lanka introduced its incapacity to fulfill its debt cost.

The authorities stated it was suspending all worldwide debt servicing with impact from 12 April, the primary such occasion within the island’s unbiased historical past of 74 years.