8014618424001Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka this Friday (2), nearly two months after he was forced to to resign and flee the country as a result of a wave of demonstrations provoked by a serious economic crisis. Rajapaksa landed at Bandaranaike International Airport, in the capital, Colombo, and was received by Ministers Tiran Alles and Prasanna Ranatunga.8014618424001 The former president was forced to flee the presidential palace in Colombo on July 9 when thousands of people stormed the site in the climax of months of anti-government demonstrations over the economic collapse the country has entered. Four days later, on in July, the former president left the Sri Lanka, traveling to at least three countries. Lastly, I was in Thailand.80146184240018014618424001The current government of Sri Lanka had guaranteed that the former president could return to the country, but “at the right time”.
