Investigation launched into order asking Russians to leave country amid blacklash over ‘whites only policy’

Investigation launched into order asking Russians to leave country amid blacklash over ‘whites only policy’

Sri Lanka has told hundreds of thousands of Russians and some Ukrainians staying in the country to escape the war that they must leave in the next two weeks, immigration officers said.

The immigration controller issued a notice to the tourism ministry asking Russian and Ukrainian people staying on extended tourist visas to leave Sri Lanka within two weeks from 23 February.

Just over 288,000 Russians and nearly 20,000 Ukrainians have traveled to Sri Lanka in the last two years since the war began, according to official data.

  • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
    21·
    4 months ago

    Unfortunately it’s up to them to make a change in their country.

    • dugmeup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I understand what you are saying. The problem is that this typically is made impossible by the regime. The brutality of these systems exist to protect and scare everyone into submission who is under that roof.

      The advantage of an external diaspora is to allow dissent and enable funding for the dissent from outside of that suppressive regime.

      I don’t think any internal alternatives exist or will be allowed to exist let alone be funded and run under the roof of Putin. The support will have to come from people who have had to run away to create the infrastructure needed for dissent to occur.

      • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Russia has already overthrown two brutal, “suppressive” regimes in the past century.