Sri Lanka’s uprising: UpFront with Sharika Thiranagama
0:08:47 – 0:29:30
Mass protests against the government in Sri Lanka amidst a curfew prompted the resignation of the entire cabinet except for the Prime Minister and President. The protests follow a snowballing crisis of economic issues, the pandemic, and borrowing on foreign reserves to pay national debt. UpFront is joined by Sharika Thiranagama (@thirana1), Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, a Sri Lankan Refugee, and author of In My Mothers’ House: Civil War in Sri Lanka, to explore what Sri Lankans have been going through. Learn more about the episode
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