“Saturday, July 9, 2022 will go down in history as the day the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka saw its darkest hour usher in a new dawn”Write the The Morning in its Sunday July 10 editorial. The day before, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign on Wednesday July 13, after being forced to flee his residence invaded by demonstrators demanding his departure.
“That Sri Lanka was at a breaking point was a world known fact and it was only a matter of time before the people of this country would draw the line and say ‘enough is enough’”continues the Sri Lankan daily.
Forced to skip meals
“That line was drawn around noon yesterday when the largest gathering of people this country has ever seen marched through the heavily guarded gates of the President’s residence and minutes later the equally guarded gates