Following a wave of outraged protests that started in March, Sri Lanka’s PM Mahinda Rajapaksa has quit his position earlier this week, and is now hiding in a military base. This news comes after protestors have called for Mahinda’s brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the country’s president, to step down, along with other members of Sri Lanka’s powerful political family. On Monday, after Mahinda resigned, protestors attacked police guarding his villa, and graffitied “Gota Go Home” in red on one of the villa’s walls. The villa was a place where of his villa where Mahinda stayed when visiting family in the south […]
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