researcher and attorney at law with the center for policy. alternatives from bangkok were joined by allan cut gama, who's a political economist and senior lecturer at the university of jeff enough. and also in colombo, jan pereira, executive director of the national peace counsel of sure anchor warble. come to you all a body from sector. if we can start with you social like as economy as we heard, has gone into free fall, it's the worst financial crisis since independence in 1948 and the people seem to be putting the blame squarely at the feet of one man, president roger parks or go to buyer. how on earth to chill anchor, get into this mess? a thank you again for having me on the show. it's a very timely discussion because we, i, and border political and economic crisis. now we've seen the warning signs, so some time there's been several policy issues that were disastrous, the tax, the fertilizer ban. and there was a lot of good byes given to the government over the last one and a half to 2 years. that the decisions being made and the mismanage was going to lead to some kind of crisis. but only a