Desk Report
Publish: 11 May 2022, 09:57 am
Photo: Collected
Sri
Lanka's former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family have taken
shelter at a naval base in Trincomalee in the north-east part of the island
nation, sources have told media, as lethal protests continue amid the country's
worst-ever economic crisis.
The
former Prime Minister and his family were flown in a helicopter to the naval
base, people with direct knowledge of the matter told the media. They said protests
have broken out outside the naval base too, some 270 km from the capital
Colombo.
Sri
Lanka deployed thousands of troops and police to enforce a curfew after five
people were killed in the worst violence in weeks of protests over the
unprecedented economic crisis. Nearly 200 were also wounded yesterday as Rajapaksa resigned, but that did little to calm public anger.
He
had to be rescued in a pre-dawn operation by the military after thousands of
anti-government protesters poured into his official residence in Colombo
overnight, with police firing tear gas and warning shots to keep back the
crowd.
The
Rajapaksa clan’s hold on power has been shaken by months of blackouts and
shortages in Sri Lanka, the worst economic crisis since it became independent
in 1948. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa remains in office, however, with
widespread powers and command over the security forces.
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