Sri Lanka is in a major economic crisis. The President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a notice prohibiting anyone from being on any public road, park, trains and seashore without any written permission. Amid curfew the Government has blocked social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
The curfew began at dusk on Sunday. Whatsapp is also down in Sri Lanka. In fact mobile users received a message saying this was “as directed by the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission“.
The island country is in the middle of a major economic crisis. This has caused due to the lack of foreign currency which is used to pay for foreign imports.
During this crisis the country has faced not only curfew, along with it power cuts lasting half day or more, lack of fuel, food, medicines. This has also raised public anger. At least two dozen of police personnel were reportedly injured during the clashes.