A short time after Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in Singapore, he emailed his resignation home to Colombo.
Protesters storm Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office on Wednesday to demand he resign after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country.Rajapaksa, who fled to the Maldives on Wednesday to escape a popular uprising over his family’s role in a crippling economic crisis, headed on to Singapore on a Saudi Arabian airline flight, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Singapore’s foreign ministry said Rajapaksa had entered the country on a private visit, and had not sought or been granted asylum.The parliamentary speaker later confirmed an original version of the resignation letter had been flown back to Sri Lanka. “The fight is not over,” said Terance Rodrigo, a 26-year-old student who said he had been inside the compound since it was taken over by protesters on Saturday.The usual protest sites, however, were calm and organisers handed back the president and prime minister’s residences to the government on Thursday evening.
The government imposed a curfew in Colombo from noon local time on Thursday until early on Friday in a bid to prevent further unrest. Local media showed armoured vehicles with soldiers atop patrolling the city’s streets.Police use tear gas to disperse protesters who stormed the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday.Police said one person was killed and 84 injured in clashes between riot police and protesters on Wednesday.
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