After thousands of enraged protestors on Saturday barged into his residence in Colombo, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa reportedly fled his home, according to local media.
Dramatic visuals from outside Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapakse s residence on Saturday showed a sea of demonstrators storming into the compound, tearing down security cordons placed by police, taking a dip in the swimming pool and romping through his kitchen and home.
cabinet, and so it would have been a bit of an outside choice, let“s cabinet, and so it would have been a bit of an outside choice, let s put it that way, but as you say, earlier today, he ruled himself out of the running, saying that was a very difficult decision to have made. all eyes will be on who he throws his weight behind, will it be one of the candidates who have already declared, orsome candidates who have already declared, or some of the others who we are expecting to be seriously considering it, foreign secretary, will this trust, for example. liz truss. thousands of protesters have stormed the official residence of sri lanka“s president in colombo demanding his resignation over the country s economic crisis. huge crowds enraged by gotabaya rajapaksa“s handling of sri lanka“s worst economic crisis in decades overwhelmed the security forces. reports say the president has been moved to a safer location. the prime minister says he is willing to resign to make a
to the world as a place of beautiful beaches. a country of 22 million people that was recovering from a vicious civil war. like everywhere else, it was hit hard by covid but the roots of this latest crisis are far deeper than that. these are the rajapaksa brothers, who have dominated politics in sri lanka for years. gotabaya, on the right, president now for a few more days. mahinda on the left a former president, until recently, prime minister in his brother s government. critics blame them directly for the woes of the country. of the country. we got here because of sheer incompetence, mismanagement, and greed. and the rajapaksa family embodied that. they embodied three things that have brought sri lanka down the first is authoritarianism, the second is corruption, and the third is ethnic chauvinism. and all of this came to a head when gotabaya rajapa ksa became president. as sri lanka s economic