Law enforcement advise Gotabaya Rajapaksa not to leave resort for security reasons
Ousted former Sri Lankan leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa is definitely staying at a hotel in the heart associated with Bangkok, where police are advising him not to leave meant for security reasons, a source said on Friday.
Mr Rajapaksa arrived with three other people on a chartered flight from Singapore at Wing 6 of the army airport adjacent to Add Mueang International Airport close to 8pm on Thursday.
Based on the source, the group had planned to land within Phuket but issues about a possible details leak resulted in the particular flight being rerouted to the military airport in Bangkok.
At the resort, the location of which was not disclosed, plainclothes police officers from the Special Branch Bureau have been deployed to ensure safety. Officials have asked the former leader to remain within the hotel during their stay in the country.
Mr Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka upon July 14 regarding Singapore amid huge protests over the country’s most severe economic crisis in decades. This individual resigned from the obama administration after arriving in the city-state, where his visa expired immediately.
Primary Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told reporters upon Wednesday that Mr Rajapaksa would be allowed to enter Asia on humanitarian grounds yet would be advised to help keep a low profile throughout his stay.
Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said the former Sri Lankan president could remain for up to 90 days when he carried a diplomatic passport.
Mr Rajapaksa made no public appearances or comment considering that leaving Sri Lanka.
An international individual rights group last month formally questioned Singapore to indict the former president just for crimes against mankind during his country’s decades-long civil battle that ended last year.
The particular South Africa-based Global Truth and Proper rights Project said this had urged Singapore to exercise universal jurisdiction to police arrest the former president intended for grave breaches of international humanitarian legislation.
It is not known whether the same request has been made in order to Thailand now that Mr Rajapaksa has left Singapore.
Mister Rajapaksa led Sri Lanka’s defence ministry while his brother Mahinda was chief executive when the country’s raw Tamil separatist turmoil came to a weakling end.