The president abandoned the country and fled, and the country continued to be in turmoil
Sri Lanka's air force said President Rajapaksa flew in a military plane from the capital, Colombo, to neighboring Maldives in the early hours of Wednesday morning with his wife and two bodyguards. Rajapaksa's exile marked the end of nearly 20 years of rajapaksa family rule over Sri Lanka. Dozens of Sri Lankans working in Malé took to the streets that day, demanding that the Maldives not protect Rajapaksa, a "criminal." ”
Why is the situation in Sri Lanka in such turmoil? The country is facing the worst economic crisis in 70 years, with severe shortages of food, oil, gas, medicine and other materials, food prices rising sharply, and the people suffering. Before Sri Lanka declared bankruptcy in July, the country's economy had been facing a withering away for the past few years, with the government's mismanagement of the economy weakening the country's finances, leading to a nation's subsistence deficit and plummeting in the country's production and service levels. The pandemic has also caused many Sri Lankans working overseas to lose their jobs and dry up remittances. Although Sri Lanka has secured credit lines from neighboring countries such as India, it is still unable to pay regularly for imported fuel and basic foodstuffs.
The Sri Lankan government owes tens of billions of foreign debt, unable to import food, energy and other necessities, and the people's lives are trapped. The people blame Rajapaksa and his political family for the man-made disaster.
