Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees country amid economic crisis

[Kamaji]

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees country amid economic crisis

By David Propper
July 12, 2022

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country his family ruled for years early Wednesday mere hours before he was officially going to step down.

Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards departed the country on a Sri Lankan Air Force plane, an immigration official told Reuters with a government source telling the outlet he’d left for the capital of Maldives before going to another Asian country.

The ouster comes after thousands of angry protesters stormed his home and office over months-long economic devastation that has led to a severe food and fuel shortages.

The Rajapaksa family, including the president’s brother, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, dominated the country’s politics for years, but were largely blamed for the desperate conditions they found themselves in.

Rajapaksa’s promised departure hasn’t solved much with protesters vowing to occupy government buildings until all top leaders are ousted.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also said he would step down once a new government is in place. The prime minister is supposed to assume the presidency until a replacement is selected.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/sri-lankan-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-flees-country/

[Kamaji]

Lucky them.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Are the Chi-coms hoping to exploit this uncertainty to create a Chi-com puppet state to use as a military base in the Indian Ocean?

[PeteS in CA]

"Organic" agriculture is less productive, and would change Sri Lanka from a food exporter into a food importer? And this might be compounded by shrinking oils supply?

Who'd athunk it?