After three months of unrest, Sri Lanka President's Office Resumes
HY News
25 July, 2022 12:05 pm IST
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Sri Lanka's besieged presidential office resumes on Monday after more than three months of unrest and anti-government demonstrators that were flushed out in a military crackdown that triggered international condemnation.
Widespread public anger over the country's unprecedented economic crisis saw protesters barge in and occupy the colonial-era building earlier this month.
Soldiers rescued then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa from his nearby residence before it was overrun by an angry crowd the same day, with the leader eventually fleeing to Singapore and resigning. Troops armed with batons and automatic weapons cleared the presidential secretariat shortly after midnight Friday on the orders of Rajapaksa's successor, Ranil Wickremesinghe.
It is reported that security forces have already opened Galle Road for traffic in front of the Secretariat.
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