Colombo/Singapore – Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, a spokesperson for the parliament speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic meltdown. The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital of Colombo, where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a city-wide curfew. Crowds set off firecrackers, shouted slogans, and danced ecstatically at the Gota Go Gama protest site, …
Protests against Sri Lanka’s economic crisis erupted this week, as they blamed the president and his family for runaway inflation, shortages of basic goods, and corruption.
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