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Yet another example:
‘The family took over’: how a feuding ruling dynasty drove Sri Lanka to ruin
Excerpt:
"What came less than six months later was the worst economic crisis that Sri Lanka has experienced since independence in 1948. The suffering it has caused, as the treasury ran dry and the country became unable to import fuel, food and medicine, has left barely anyone on the island of 22 million people unscathed. According to the UN, Sri Lanka is facing a “dire humanitarian crisis”; many struggle for one meal a day, surgeries and cancer treatments are being halted, schools have shut and petrol sales have stopped as fuel has run out. “Our economy has completely collapsed,” the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, recently told parliament."...