Gotabaya Rajapaksa - report

President of Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022

Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a former Sri Lankan politician and military officer, who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 13 July 2022 due to months of public anger. He previously served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during the final phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa

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2022-07-13

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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday, hours before he was expected to resign. Protesters seized his home and office, and appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as acting president. Wickremedhe quickly declared a nationwide state of emergency to counter swelling protests over the country's economic and political collapse. Sri Lanka is in the midst of its worst economic crisis since gaining independence in 1948.

2022-07-09