After mass protests in the country, the President of Sri Lanka fled abroad with his family. Protesters seized the Prime Minister’s residence. Photo: Internet The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, flew out on a military aircraft An-32 on Wednesday morning (local time) heading to the Maldives. Along with him, his wife and two bodyguards […]
After mass protests in the country, the President of Sri Lanka fled abroad with his family. Protesters seized the Prime Minister’s residence.
Photo: InternetThe President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, flew out on a military aircraft An-32 on Wednesday morning (local time) heading to the Maldives. Along with him, his wife and two bodyguards also left the country.
During the mass protests that took place on July 9 in Colombo, protesters seized the presidential palace.
According to “Reuters,” after the protests, the younger brother of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former head of the country’s Ministry of Finance, Basil Rajapaksa, was unable to depart from Bandaranaike International Airport.
Rajapaksa came to power in 2019. During his presidency, Sri Lanka faced an unprecedented economic crisis and was on the brink of default. The energy crisis pushed the country’s economy to the verge of collapse.