Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that much of the contents in his private residence here were not salvageable after a group of irate anti-government protesters torched it on July 9.
While the widespread public unrest in Sri Lanka has been caused by economic turmoil, the democratic values in the country have also been declining for some time.
Sri Lanka Crisis: Thousands of protesters broke through police barricades in Colombo and stormed the president's official residence, the latest in the deeply escalating crisis in Sri Lanka.
Skirting questions on Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation under mounting protests, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here "we have noted the latest developments in Sri Lanka".