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The fucking orcs were setting up whites only bars. Good for Sri Lanka for kicking them out.
They didn't kick out that minority who ran racist businesses, they kicked out all the 288k people who reneged on their "duty" to go kill ukrainians and die for putin's aspirations.
The fact that unregistered illegal Russian businesses had become an actual problem there indicates that Sri Lanka - a very poor nation that almost went bankrupt last year - is not equipped to deal with an influx of that size.
If you want someone to take on 288 thousand refugees I agree with you, but it shouldn't be Sri Lanka.
Tourism minister Harin Fernando told Daily Mirror that the ministry has been receiving complaints of some Russian tourists running unregistered and illegal businesses in the southern part of the country.
That's a wrong amount. Real figure is unknown, though surely much lower. Check the article.
The fucking orcs
were setting up whites only bars
This is so confusing, are we for or against racism?
Importantly we do not judge all by the actions of few.
I've had this talk so many times, it's a simple lesson but it needs repeating.
It may be a conversation worth having in a 1 to 1, but internet denizens crave hate and hate as much as they can when they can.
Usually I get downvoted for "let's come together" comments that say things like all Israelis and Russians shouldn't die in a fire, because they are not all bad, when people are calling for culling them. The internet is weird.
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It's not "few" orcs that have crossed the border to Ukraine. It's not "few" orcs celebrating the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine. It's the collaborative efforts of a nation
Against.
Seriously? “Thanks for letting us escape to your country, now stay the fuck out of our bar.” Major dick move.
I was going to say that I preferred them to stay in Sri Lanka, at least they would not become more soldiers for Putin... But moving there and then creating "whites only bars" 🤦, yeah, Sri Lanka is right in kicking them.
I visited Sri Lanka a few months ago, I remember visiting Hikkaduwa (a beach town in the south-west) and there were tons of Russian tourists there. All the local businesses had signs in Russran, and some hotels rooms even had Russian flags hanging from the balconies.
I remeber talking to a Belarussian woman who has escaped Belarus when the war on Ukraine started because she was a political dissident and it was dangerous for her to stay. She's been working there as a waitress ever since she arrived.
How did she feel about serving Russian tourists? I mean, not every Russian is pro Putin, let alone pro war. But if you feel the need to hang a freaking flag other than the one of the opposition from your hotel's balcony you probably belong to the ribbon wearing scum.
She described being enraged by them and wanting to strangle them, but then she takes a deep breath and reminds herself that that kind of violent impulse is what wrought this war in the first place, so she tries to avoid that type of thinking
An Israeli bloke was telling me the other day how loads of russian Jewish people had gone to Israel to avoid the war. Actually lol'd
Well if they're gonna have to participate in fighting, perhaps they're smart to choose the better equipped army who are "fighting" unarmed and malnourished children in an open-air prison.
The moral thing would be to not participate in either, ofc.
I'm just pointing out I can see the logic they used.
Yeah it's not ironic at all, they won't be conscripted in Israel
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
The president’s office said that the notice had been issued without prior cabinet approval and the government had not officially decided to revoke the visa extensions, reported the Sri Lankan newspaper Daily Mirror.
However, concerns have been raised over thousands of Russians and a smaller number of Ukrainians staying in the country for an extended period of time and even setting up their own restaurants and nightclubs.
Tourism minister Harin Fernando told Daily Mirror that the ministry has been receiving complaints of some Russian tourists running unregistered and illegal businesses in the southern part of the country.
In a bid to boost tourism and recover from its worst economic crisis since 2022, Sri Lanka began granting 30-days visas on arrival and extensions for up to six months.
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After all Sri Lanka does have previous experience with committing genocide and getting away with it.
War crimes in a civil war and immigration issues involving Russian tourists. They seem a tad bit unrelated :P
Yeah I understand. I got upset with few comments that were praising Sri Lanka. I just wanted to remind people that Sri Lanka has its skeletons too. Hidden away in mass graves.