Sri Lankan military veterans H.M.S Mahindasiri, (C) and Uditha Roshan (R) sit at a protest site near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2022. Picture taken April 25, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Missing both legs and an arm, former special forces soldier Thushara Kumara is an unlikely critic of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a wartime defence chief who became Sri Lanka's president in 2019.
But the 43-year-old army pensioner is one of several dozen veterans now camping out at a protest site near the president's office in Colombo, having lost faith in a leader who stubbornly resisted calls to resign when the economy began to implode and most of his cabinet quit.
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