Tag: Gotabaya
Ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns from exile
A convoy of vehicles likely to carry former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa leaves Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo early on September 3, 2022. ISHARA S. KODIKARA / AFP The…
Sri Lanka in state crisis – Refugee President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigns via email – News
Sri Lanka’s expatriate President Gotabaya Rajapaksa officially resigned on Friday. Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena announced in the capital Colombo that he had received and accepted the formal letter…
after fleeing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in Singapore
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife, Ioma, and two bodyguards were on board a Saudia airline flight, according to an official at Velana International Airport in Male, Maldives. – /AFP The plane…
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa leaves Sri Lanka before resigning
After Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, people visit his official residence in Colombo on July 13, 2022. RAFIQ MAQBOOL / AP Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, whose resignation was expected…
Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees
Sri Lanka, in the grip of a serious economic and political crisis, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday July 13, a few hours after the flight of its president,…
Politics Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country by plane
Spurned by a strong popular movement, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left his country early Wednesday aboard a military plane heading for the Maldives. The 73-year-old leader, who vowed to…
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announces his resignation
Protesters stormed the President’s residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 9. DINUKA LIYANAWATTE / REUTERS Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled his Colombo palace on Saturday (July 9th),…
It gets lonely around Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa remains clinging to power. Two of his brothers have had to leave the big political scene, at least temporarily. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during the February…