Awakening the Protests in Shilanka

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People have been finding it harder and harder to afford food. And that's really where you see these protests attracting in more people. Police say the violence led to several deaths, including an m p who shot two people when a mob swarmed his car, before killing himself. For the drug shortage meant that surgeries were unable to be performed.

Sri Lanka’s “Go home, Gota!” protesters want to throw President Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of office. Reveal’s Ike Sriskandarajah explains what could happen if Gota "goes home" to the serene suburbs of Southern California.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Haleema Shah with help from Victoria Dominguez, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.

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