 "People stand holding a national flag at the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office on the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Photo: AP/PTI)")
On July 13, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was expected to resign. But, Lankan citizens woke up to the news that their president fled the nation in the wee hours of Wednesday in a military aircraft and landed in the Maldives. Soon after the news was announced, the government declared an emergency.
Amid an economic crisis that triggered severe shortages of food and
