January 6, 2025 – January 19, 2025
This week’s memes
Meme 1:

- Created a crisis and came to power
- Created castles in the air claiming that they will develop the country in a grand way
- Campaigned to bring intellectuals into parliament
- Introduced projects to clean the environment as soon as they came into power
- The ships that came to the country left the way they came
- A crisis returned
- Went home
Meme 2:

Meme 3:

(Left) China then (according to the NPP)
- Ensnared the country in a debt trap
- Constructed useless ports and airports
- Gave commissions
- Helped Mahinda [Rajapaksa] for his election
- Provided low-quality vaccines
- Turned the country into a Chinese colony
(Right) China today (according to the NPP)
- One of Sri Lanka’s oldest friends
- Helped Sri Lanka when it was being threatened by the international community
- Brought in investments
- Established factories
- Contributed greatly towards the country’s development
Meme 4:

We don’t want rice, nor do we want coconuts. But, we beg of you [Anura Kumara Dissanayake], please either learn a little bit of English or make sure that you don’t travel anywhere
Meme 5:

When you go, make sure to wear a helmet too
Meme 6:

(Context: When the previous government was in power, some members of the NPP stated that the rice mafia could be defeated with “just one stroke of the pen” if the president desires to do so https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=590841479993653. This meme uses this statement to ridicule the fact that the country is facing a shortage of rice under the NPP government, allegedly due to the actions of the rice mafia.)

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