Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to the island nation next week after fleeing in July amid mass protests, according to a former ambassador, according to local broadcaster Newsfirst.
According to Newsfirst, Udayanga Weeratunga, a former Sri Lankan envoy to Russia who is related to Rajapaksa, said that the former President would arrive in Sri Lanka on August 24.
Rajapaksa, the only Sri Lankan president to resign in the middle of his term, is currently in Thailand after leaving Sri Lanka on a military jet to the Maldives and spending weeks in Singapore. He resigned from office shortly after landing in Singapore, citing popular outrage at his government's handling of Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since the country's independence from Britain in 1948.
Rajapaksa has made no public appearances or comments since leaving Sri Lanka.
According to Newsfirst, Udayanga Weeratunga, a former Sri Lankan envoy to Russia who is related to Rajapaksa, said that the former President would arrive in Sri Lanka on August 24.
Rajapaksa, the only Sri Lankan president to resign in the middle of his term, is currently in Thailand after leaving Sri Lanka on a military jet to the Maldives and spending weeks in Singapore. He resigned from office shortly after landing in Singapore, citing popular outrage at his government's handling of Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since the country's independence from Britain in 1948.
Rajapaksa has made no public appearances or comments since leaving Sri Lanka.
