Sri Lanka President Reaches Singapore After Fleeing Protests
- The leader has yet to formally resign his post as president
- Rajapaksa has arrived in Singapore from the Maldives
Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Photographer: Andy Buchanan/Pool/Getty Images
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in Singapore Thursday after fleeing months of anti-government protests that forced him to pledge to resign.
Rajapaksa flew to Singapore’s Changi Airport from the Maldives, where he had made a brief stop after leaving Sri Lanka Wednesday aboard a military aircraft. The island nation’s Security Council agreed to his request for safe passage out.