BANGKOK: Sri Lanka’s ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand today, seeking temporary shelter in a second South-East Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said.
Rajapaksa fled to Singapore on July 14, via the Maldives, following unprecedented unrest triggered by Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in seven decades and days after thousands of protesters stormed the president’s official residence and office.
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