Following a wave of outraged protests that started in March, Sri Lanka’s PM Mahinda Rajapaksa has quit his position earlier this week, and is now hiding in a military base. This news comes after protestors have called for Mahinda’s brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the country’s president, to step down, along with other members of Sri Lanka’s powerful political family.
On Monday, after Mahinda resigned, protestors attacked police guarding his villa, and graffitied “Gota Go Home” in red on one of the villa’s walls. The villa was a place where of his villa where Mahinda stayed when visiting family in the south of Sri Lanka. The protestors then smashed Mahinda’s bedroom windows.
Sri Lanka’s protests began in March following the country’s longest power blackout, which lasted for 13 hours, ever recorded. Many state-run hospitals stopped surgeries because they ran out of…
