🇱🇰
#SriLanka
The protesters – who enjoy widespread support – do not simply want the president to step down; they are calling for accountability and justice for his mismanagement, corruption and human rights abuses that have persisted for decades. 1/
@Madame_Ennui
I am a Palestinian solidarity activist who is also pro Ukraine. See my profile. Welcome to our world of misfits. Proudly idealistic.
#SlavaUkraini
I took a Twitter break for 10 days and returned...to find out that literally every country in the Western world except Portugal is following
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
and mass infecting everyone calling this "a cold". Is there a country that is not following GBD?
Visit 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
!
Dear world, Sri Lanka's peaceful protesters have opened up all the places they breached for public display & tourism. This is a unique form of tourism. Bring your bicycle 🚴♂️ & come on holiday. The streets are empty as we have no fuel. You can take trains.
1/
This plate contains some hot 🌶green chillies called "kochchi" in 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
.
A Sri Lankam student of year 5 (around 10 y/o) gave these chillies to the canteen staff of the school asking if she can get some food in return. 1/
🇫🇷French president
@EmmanuelMacron
actually wrote a congratulatory message about Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sinhala.
What a diplomatic move!
#SriLankaElections2024
He is the brightest amongst us. Struggled in life to get to where he was thanks to free education which he continues to defend to date for all of us. Today the Ranil-Rajapaksa Government has framed him as a terrorist.
This will come to bite all of us if we don't speak up now. 1/
After 3 years I flew recently to my motherland 🇱🇰Sri Lanka.
#Maskmandates
are normal and everyone respects it. I felt safe. No one whines. What happened to us in the West? Are we so selfish that a face covering is disturbing us more than a loss of some one else's life? 4/6
Dear solo female travellers to
#SriLanka
,
The recent
@TimeOutLondon
article &
@theworldindex
gives a false sense of security to travellers that
#SriLanka
is safe for solo females.This is absolutely not true.
As a Sri Lankan female & as an experienced traveller, some tips here.⤵️
My ideal care taker govt: Sajith & Sumanthiran as President & PM or vice versa, Harsha as Finance Minister & Anura as Justice Minister. Harini should be there as well.
Any thoughts?
I live in 🇧🇪Belgium. Me and my family wear
#FFP2masks
indoors at work or at school.We don't eat in indoor restaurants & don't socialise indoors with friends. We have been super careful. We have managed not to get Covid so far. But this weekend last of two friends got Covid. 1/6
Picture Of Student Leader Wasantha Mudalige Sitting At Shangri-La Hotel Sends Shock Waves Amongst Colombo Elite Who Honestly Thought "Socialists" Cannot Enter A 5 Star Hotel. How Dare they? It's Only Meant For Namal Baba And Co.
#LKA
#Satire
@NewsCurrySL
Look at how the president of France speaks to his team that lost the Finals. He said I am proud of you guys. Compare this with the president of
#SriLanka
who recently dismissed someone who was about to give a presentation on his topic of expertise. This is real leadership!
Dear
@Davud_Akh
,
Today you tweeted about a tourist taking a selfie at Nine Arch Bridge wearing a fish net bikini. You asked locals to call the police if someone is shirtless.Some of us responded.A few hours later I noted that you deleted your tweet. Here's a glimpse of it. 1/
@Davud_Akh
With all due respect,we Sri Lankans don't police others even though some people are uptight about what others wear.That's why a lady who had a Buddha tattoo got arrested once & another lady with the dress print of the steering wheel of a ship (confused as ☸️ in Buddhism). 1/
Ninewells hospital in
#SriLanka
wants prepubescent kids to "awaken the women in them" on International Women's day by getting pregnant.
Ninewells Hospital, this is why you shouldn't use AI for marketing. At least check them before publishing, will you?
I talk to friends who are not on Twitter. They know nothing of
#childhospitalisations
in the 🇺🇸US, 🇬🇧UK, 🇫🇷France, 🇧🇪Belgium & 🇿🇦South Africa etc.
#omicron
is mild, they hear. Kids hardly get sick.Are we in a
#Twitterbubble
? Why do we act like
#NorthKorea
? 1/2
@yohanimusic
How nice that you collect money. Who are the people who are behind
#ForSriLanka
Foundation registered in Los Angeles? Can you be transparent? After all, this is a lot of money you want to collect? To whom will you give this money? What is the plan?
Images have come out "thugs" who entered Colombo university yesterday to attack student protesters together with riot police. They all seem to carry a long wooden stick with sharp edge (මුගුර). Is this how
#SriLanka
respects
#democracy
#HumanRights
#humandignity
#RuleOfLaw
? 1/
I try to understand why I witnessed so much resistance to
#maskmandates
in the West & why most of the East accept
#MaskMandates
as the norm? Which part of the world will have
#repercussions
on these
#massinfections
in the future? Do we care about our kids at all?
5/6
This week, I heard of so many cases amongst friends. I am the only one who wears a
#mask
in the shops. I know we are
#Covidfatigued
. But this is endangering kids. And this is endangering the
#Elderly
& the
#vulnerable
. Why are we so UNempathetic? 3/6
I couldn't stop crying 😭, when I heard the unequivocal words of "Yanis"
@yanisvaroufakis
🇬🇷Greek economist & politician about 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
. A former academic, he served as the 🇬🇷Greek Minister of Finance from January to July 2015 under PM Alexis Tsipras. An extract here. 👇🏾1/
These pics show families with children commemorating lost lives for
#Aragalaya
. Does this look like a violent protest?
#SriLanka
's
#policebrutality
yesterday cannot be justified by asking why they brought children. If you do, tell the tourists not to come too.
@fernandoharin
Dear
@rickygervais
,Don't break my 💔.
We are a
#LandLikeNoOther
.Come experience the splendour of our political wisdom,abundance of guidance,our religious tolerance,our democracy,all enshrined & ordained in our living, breathing,225 sages in the
#WonderofAsia
#visitsrilanka2023
1/
@MASumanthiran
From the South with 💚love. I am deeply sorry for your pain as well as ours. I am ashamed & traumatised by the last stages of war at
#Mullivaikkal
. I pray the perpetrators will be brought to justice. Please forgive us for our silence in the past.
@ShanakiyanR
9 April 2022 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
- On this day last year
#Aragalaya
began at the Galle Face Green in Colombo. This was the start of what was to become
#gotagogama
or Go Home Gota Village. (Gota+Go+Gama). 1/
Happy Birthday to
@VraieB
one of the most inspiring educated politicians of Sri Lanka.
Last year Vraie was supposed to be the Mayor of Colombo. But the Municipal council elections were never held.
#SriLanka
"My son went to the temple for work after hearing the president and politicians saying that there is no ban on worshiping at the
#Vedukkunarimalai
temple, but now the police have arrested him."
Even children wear
#maskmandates
outdoors in Sri Lanka. This was during peaceful protests in
#SriLanka
for a system change.
Despite all the hardships see how people respect mask mandates and care for each other.💚
🇮🇷Iranians have turned a
@selenagomez
song into a protest movement after five girls were detained for posting a video dancing to it on
#IWD
.
#Dance4Iran
global movement is joined with love, respect & solidarity from 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
.
This was in Colombo yesterday.
#dance4democracy
I come from 🇱🇰Sri Lanka,formerly Ceilão for the 🇵🇹Portuguese, Zeylan/Seylan for the 🇳🇱Dutch & Ceylon got the 🇬🇧British. I grew up learning that English language is the key to conquering the world. We didn't learn about the atrocities done by the colonial powers at school. 1/
She chose her life over competing against someone who has been banned by the International Boxing Association. She chose her life over the Olympics, for which she must have made so many sacrifices, & for which she worked so hard 😟
10 months later I can't believe that Gaza is being left to die.
Can the Western "civilizations" ever recover from this guilt?
We have watched a televised genocide.
If I were an EU leader, I would resign en masse.
@JosepBorrellF
@vonderleyen
@CharlesMichel
@FranceskAlbs
🇧🇪Brussels- Yesterday my 10 y/o child got off the school bus in tears. One student asked why she wore a mask when "Covid was over". She answered Covid was not over. The student sang "masker af"(mask off) in her ear throughout the ride. Note 59 cases in school this week. 1/3
So the latest saviour of
#SriLanka
advising people not to leave the country is a Trumpist who is anti immigrant spreading Far Right rhetoric. Have a look at her timeline. I never thought I would say this. But even Gotabhaya Rajapaksa looks normal now.😂😂😂
#ThisIsMyIsland
Can you see this post?
I am a good governance activist for 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
& 🇵🇸Palestine Solidarity activist.
I have been informed that some have reported my account & my reach is limited.
Please respond to this post with a comment or a share to change algorithm.
Thanks.💚
Bankrupt Sri Lanka allocated 200 million to the Independence Day celebrations on February 4. This is the real situation.
Do the 225 MP's care?
#RanilsParty
#SriLanka
#presidentialpride
Credit to the photographer.
My mother passed away recently & it was a shock for me.
I am still trying to grasp this massive vaccum in my life.
She was a Botany teacher & loved Orchids. This is my mother with my son sometime back.
I am grateful to everything she has taught me about life.
#Amma
Prachi Nigam, a teen from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh,India secured the top rank in the state's Class 10 board exams w/ an exceptional score of 98.5 per cent. Shameful SM comments are telling her to be presentable for having facial hair.
Dear X family,
My account is being impersonated by someone using my name & image without my authorisation. This is
#cyberbullying
.
I guess I have been effective that some found the time to resort to this tactic. Could you please report
@ShanikaDSilva
.🙏🏾💚
Follow Steps.⬇️
This is a complete lie. Belgium is one of the most generous & fair countries in the world w/taxation. All legal & illegal persons are given assistance from the state. The picture is of the tunnel corridor from subway to the Central train station which has some trans-migrants.1/
Yesterday was my last day in Brussels before the move to Sri Lanka. This is what I saw in the center of the city. Poverty and suffering is going up every day. Wealth is for a few Uber rich which the rest goes to hell.
#Brussels
@thiwa
@NewsWireLK
"Foreigners can visit Sri Lanka and even take part in the demonstrations" - Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe speaks to SkyNews.
May 20, 2022.
@francesharris0n
I owe you an apology. As a teen I thought you wrote LTTE propaganda. Now I know better and I want to thank you for not forgetting. And apologies.
@KarimEwaida
I am so sorry.
I translated your plea to Sinhala my mother tongue & to all the languages I can speak. I am so sorry that the world has failed you. We are all with you.
🌶Imagine how many children of 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
are malnourished now? 🌶Imagine how desperate this child was for some food?
🌶Imagine how many children skip school because of hunger?
Dear 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
,
Do you still support these politicians who stole from you and are stealing? 2/
One of 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
's FB social media enhancers that I follow is Heshan. I have followed him since 2021 when he had 30 000 followers till recently when he had 254 000 followers. I liked his sense of humour & his keen perception on social issues that affect many Sri Lankans. 1/
"My disorderly conduct was that I stood there.
I stood on my campus.
To prevent somebody from being beaten to death."
- Professor Noëlle McAfee, after her release from police custody. Atlanta, Georgia.
Professor Noelle McAfee speaks out after being arrested for standing up against police assaulting a pro-Palestinian protester: "When I saw that young person being pummeled. It was horrific. It felt like it went on forever. Punching, rolling, knocking, and punching."
Portugal has a 90% vax rate, and hardly anyone is anti-mask. Why?
"We know that freedom is something else. We have lived in a dictatorship until '74. So, we know that removal of 'freedom' is something else" says infectious disease expert
@MariaMMota2
@MargSchinas
@Israel_katz
Dear commissioner
@MargSchinas
,
Here are recent extreme dehumanising statements by minister Israel Katz that were cited by South African lawyers as examples of genocidal intent at
@CIJ_ICJ
.👇
How can you hold a high-level seminar on ***combating hatred*** with this man?
Motherhood is a struggle. For every mother, her child is a king ♥️
This is our mothers who are engaged in a continuous struggle for the children of a bankrupt country, a country betrayed & destroyed by its rulers.
#CitizensDayJuly09
#CitizensDay
#IWasThereJuly09
I come from a privileged middle class family & I support the
#Aragalaya
or
#SystemChange
in
#SriLanka
because I don't agree with those who loot my country. It's a matter of being principled. I don't have to be labelled "Commie" for criticising corrupt politicians.
I spoke to a Sri Lankan friend who visited Sri Lanka recently after 1 year. He said that all the way from the airport to home all he noted were really thin people (වැහැරිලා) who looked boney. He said it looks like people are not eating even 2 meals a day. Is this true?
@adhil221
@NewsWireLK
Why did Ranil uncle invite tourists to hold placards & protest then? Let alone make awareness...
"Foreigners can visit Sri Lanka and even take part in the demonstrations" - Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe speaks to SkyNews.
May 20, 2022.
When will the media break the Omerta? Why are only the frontline medics/academics speaking out? What is the role of media? Who controls the media? Why do we accept passively this
#LetItRip
hypnosis? For God's sake
#ProtectOurChildren
!!! Everyone has
#Therighttoknow
2/2
Recently 🇱🇰Sri Lankans living in 🇦🇺Australia launched a petition requesting Minister of Immigration
@andrewjgiles
to prohibit the performance of singer Iraj in Australia.
In 48 hours the petition has gathered 3000+ signatures.
@SenatorWong
1/
Seen in Galle,
#SriLanka
.
Translation: All of Galle stands with Manusha
-The Israel Youth Union
Why would a Sri Lankan politician be backed by an authority called "The 🇮🇱Israel Youth Union'?
What say do they have and why are they involved in
#Elections2024
?
I don't cease to be surprised by Sri Lankan men who have an actual Twitter profile using racist, misogynistic language simply to support a corrupt system.
What does
@shafne
achieve by calling a whistle blower all these names?
How will RW benefit from this PR stunt?🫣
#SriLanka
@RajapaksaNamal
Aw Namal baby. I was waiting for you to open your mouth. Aren't you cute waiting for this opportunity to speak of reform & good governance.
#gohomerajapaksas
Thank you for taking the time to respond to me
@DanQayyum
. I think you have just cleared the "joke" for many 🇱🇰 Sri Lankans. So you actually never had *Stringhoppers", but it was recommended, you googled the picture & you wrote "How can anyone be excited about this". Oh wow! 1/
@nomadic_sanjee
@Tripadvisor
@lonelyplanet
@BradtGuides
@Airbnb
Thanks Sanjee for taking the time to write. I never said I had plain string hoppers. I said they were highly recommended. The picture is from Google as I didn't know what they were about. In any case, I didn't see them on the menu in the last couple of days I was there or I
Anders Tegnell at
@WHO
?
@DrTedros
what on earth are you doing? The guy who claimed that Sweden reached herd immunity 4 times, refused Oxygen to the elderly and refused to vaccinate 5-11 year olds? Now responsible for global vaccine equity? Seriously?🙈
One of the architects of Sweden's disastrous pandemic response, Anders Tegnell, has resigned.
He is to become a "senior expert" with WHO, UNICEF and Gavi on addressing vaccine equity. A worthy cause.
These 4 screenshots give you
#SriLanka
in a nutshell. 🙈
Why can't we call spade a spade.
Seriously? Galle Face full of Ranil's army with guns!!!😳
#AiyoRanil
Here's 🇱🇰Sri Lankan young Jackfruit curry...Polos curry.
It is a rage in the Vegan world in the West to eat young Jackfruit. But most people have no clue how to cook it and they try putting it in sandwiches, making salads or baking it. 😂😂😂1/
#polos
#jackfruit
#veganfood
@RW_UNP
Dear Ranil, the attacks on MP's houses are the most important item today? Wow. Just wow. What about the events that caused 9/5 attacks? Former PM
@PresRajapaksa
inciting supporters at his residence and violence by his supporters and officials at
#gotagogama
?
Thank you to everyone in Sri 🇱🇰 Lanka who didn't join the bandwagon of
#Islamaphobia
&
#HateSpeech
in 2019.
I was one & proud of everyone who stood with me. Truth always wins.
#DrShafi
#SriLanka
1/
There was an activist in 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
's
#Aragalaya
who took his own life yesterday. Many are shaken on Facebook. As per his last wish I don't mention his name.
#Mentalhealth
is an important topic & everyone needs to seek help & we all know that resources are limited in
#LKA
.1/
Lahiru S Priyankara, a student of Peradeniya University of 🇱🇰
#SriLanka
was reprimanded by a university Disciplinary Officer for hugging his girl friend infront of the "Senate building" as farewell.He was asked to surrender ID.
Here is the FB post. 👇🏾
1/
How many on Twitter
#LKA
believe that Kulanthi was never supporting Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as she tells
@TassyDahlan
here?
Most tweets have been deleted now. Anyone has screenshots?
#SriLanka
#SystemChange
If the majority in
#SriLanka
cannot speak up for a MP who gets called "kotiya" meaning Tiger (Terrorist) by a Minister in the
@ParliamentLK
& the speaker of the House cannot say a word to intervene, can we really blame the Tamil minority for wanting a Federal State? 1/
Today I spoke to a friend who has given her resignation to the Ministry of Health in
#SriLanka
. She had studied Medicine abroad, had returned to serve her country & has worked for over 2 decades. She is leaving because she had enough. Never planned to migrate. 1/
@Chanch_SL
@RajapaksaNamal
@ShehanKaru
It's also thanks to you Namal. All those ghosts & all the excitement are legacies from your family & Kolpetty muththa. Now the entire world is reading it. Well done! He even mentioned Richard de Soyza on stage. Aragalaya Jaya!
@Welikumbura
@GotabayaR
Stealing large sums is not the same as spending it. There are some "new rich" who can never spend money. I know some.
What if he left this shirt in their Sri Lankan house for holidays?
Gota's family has always acted humble compared to the likes of Namal.
Sri Lanka's Tourism Minister Harin Fernando Said That Former President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa Tours The Middle East Malls In The Footsteps Of Lawrence Of Arabia Despite His Islamaphobic Past To Thank Muslim Countries For Being Always The Standby Friend With A Visa.
@NewsCurrySL
Have you noted the incredible similarities of Pastor Jerome Fernando to Siri Samanthabhadra Arhat Maha Thero? I'll start.
1.Prosperity Gospel
2.Megalomania
3.Speak derogative of others
4. Love luxury
5. Encourage expensive gifts to themselves
6. Boasts of foreign converts 1/
2/ HELLO WORLD🌍
Our 🇳🇱Dutch Minister of Health explains why vulnerable people <60 do NOT receive an extra booster: they were already vulnerable before the pandemic, which cannot be removed with medication or the vaccine.🤯
𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑏𝑦
@anatwitje
Omg. Look at how people just sleep through this. Why can't we stand up against bullshit? This politician is smiling in all confidence without answering this guy who asked questions.
#SriLanka
#criticalthinkingskills
#OrganizePeople
- The whole community watches this brave citizen. Not one speaks or stands up for him. This is our culture. People are still sleeping & apathetic. Just imagine if 25 people stood up & asked this MP to answer questions asked!?
@whatsnextlk
@chamath