Sri Lanka Crisis

• Human rights group requests immediate arrest of ex-Sri Lankan president in Singapore

  Gotabaya Rajapaksa is believed to be living in Singapore after fleeing from Sri Lanka due to months of massive protests against him over the country's economic meltdown.

  World

  Jul 24, 2022
  
• Sri Lanka risks new turmoil as unpopular prime minister elected president

  Sri Lankans have taken to the street for months to demand their president and his prime minister step down as the country spiraled into economic chaos.

  World

  Jul 20, 2022
  
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• Sri Lanka crisis: President flees Maldives, protesters leave offices

  The country’s rapid decline was all the more shocking because, before the recent crisis, the economy had been expanding, with a growing, comfortable middle class.

  World

  Jul 14, 2022
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• Sri Lankan president flees country amid political collapse and economic crisis

  Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane bound for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives.

  World

  Jul 12, 2022
• Sri Lankan Canadians say president, PM resignations ‘long overdue’

  President of the Sri Lanka Canada Association of Brampton said leaders' resignations are "long overdue," but it's unfortunate that it took violence for the leaders to step down.

  Canada

  Jul 12, 2022
• Sri Lanka, in ‘total chaos,’ will get new president amid economic meltdown

  Leaders of the protest movement have said crowds will occupy the residences of the president and prime minister in Colombo until they finally quit office.

  World

  Jul 11, 2022
• Massive brawl breaks out in Sri Lanka’s parliament as political crisis deepens

  More than 50 lawmakers brawled in Sri Lanka's Parliament after MPs passed a vote of no confidence against new Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's government.

  Politics

  Nov 15, 2018
• Sri Lanka’s president replaces prime minister with former strongman

  Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena sacked the country’s prime minister and his Cabinet and replaced him with a former strongman.

  World

  Oct 26, 2018