The Youth Uprising Movements in Sri Lanka in 2022
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Sri Lanka, Youth Uprising Movements, Political and economic crisis, Protest, Youth Political ParticipationAbstract
Today Sri Lanka is facing a huge economic crisis and political crisis due to intemperate corruption. Ordinary people are not in a position to face this crisis. Therefore, to find a solution to this crisis, the youth population of Sri Lanka came forward. Still, they are playing a considerable role in Sri Lanka’s political sphere. On the 1st of April 2022, the protest started at the president’s residence in Mirihana. The protestors demanded the resignation of the president and Prime Minister from the government. They use slogans such as ‘Go Home Gota, Government without Rajapakshas, and Give us our stolen money.’ In this situation, three months ago, the youth population of Sri Lanka started a protest that is called ‘Aadaraye Aragalaya.’ This article enunciates the youth uprising movements in Sri Lanka and the objective of writing this article is to share the value of doing a democratic revolution to change world politics, especially in an undemocratic system. Sri Lanka used this democratic revolution to change the ruling system in 2022. The important fact is that for doing this protest, the population of youth is giving their support for a positive purpose. Therefore, this article intends to explore the definitions of youth and youth political participation, the youth uprising movements in world history, the History of the youth uprising movement in Sri Lanka, and finally cogitated the nature of the youth uprising movement against the Rajapaksa’s regime in 2022.
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