Fury exploded onto the streets of Sri Lanka’s capital on July 13 following the failure of the country’s leadership to honour an agreement for the president and prime minister to relinquish their positions.
The official resignations of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe occurred, but then were backtracked on.
Rajapaksa, his wife, and two bodyguards chose to flee the island nation’s capital city of Colombo for the Maldives early on July 13, leaving Wickremesinghe in charge as the interim president amid an escalating economic and civilian crisis.
Protesters responded en masse to this decision by storming the office of Wickremesinghe, demanding that he also vacate his post….