Fleeing Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa allowed to enter Singapore on 'private visit'
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By Iqbal Athas and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s fleeing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been allowed to enter Singapore on a “private visit” but has not asked for or been granted asylum, Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.
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Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country early July 13 to seek refuge in the Maldives, after violent protestors stormed his residency July 9.
By Iqbal Athas and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lanka’s fleeing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been allowed to enter Singapore on a “private visit” but has not asked for or been granted asylum, Singapore’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday.
By Iqbal Athas and Rhea Mogul, CNN Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Maldives on board a flight for Singapore, a high-ranking security source in Colombo told CNN, as anger grows in his home country over his refusal to formally resign.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s embattled president, left the Maldives on Thursday after fleeing his own country amid an economic collapse and political crisis. Rajapaksa was allowed to enter Singapore…
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