Rajapaksa urged not to leave city hotel

Rajapaksa urged not to leave city hotel
Rajapaksa: Phuket deemed too risky
Rajapaksa: Phuket considered too risky

Ousted previous Sri Lankan leader, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is definitely staying at a resort in the heart of Bangkok and law enforcement are advising your pet not to leave intended for security reasons, a source said yesterday.

Mr Rajapaksa arrived with three other people on a chartered flight from Singapore at Don Mueang International Airport around 8pm on Thursday.

According to the resource, the group had planned to land in Phuket but concerns in regards to a possible information leak resulted in the trip being redirected to Bangkok.

At the hotel, the location of which was not disclosed, plainclothes officers through the Special Branch Bureau have been deployed to make sure his safety.

Officials have got asked the former innovator to remain within the hotel during his remain in the country, the source informed the Bangkok Post .

Mr Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka on July fourteen for Singapore among massive protests over the country’s worst recession in decades.

He resigned from the presidency after arriving in the city-state, where his visa for australia expired this week.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told reporters on Wednesday that Mr Rajapaksa would be allowed to get into Thailand on humanitarian education grounds but will be advised to keep a minimal profile.

Foreign Minister Wear Pramudwinai said the previous Sri Lankan leader could stay for up to 90 days as he carried a diplomatic passport.

Mr Rajapaksa has made simply no public appearances or even comments since causing Sri Lanka.

An international human rights group last month formally requested that will Singapore indict him for crimes towards humanity allegedly committed during his state’s decades-long civil battle that ended in 2009.

The South Africa-based Global Truth and Proper rights Project said it had urged Singapore to exercise universal jurisdiction to detain Mr Rajapaksa just for grave breaches of international humanitarian legislation. Mr Rajapaksa directed Sri Lanka’s protection ministry while their brother Mahinda has been president when the nation’s brutal Tamil separatist conflict came to a bloody end.

Move Forward Party MP Rangsiman Rome yesterday took to Facebook to attack the government for allowing Mister Rajapaksa to stay in Thailand while “[turning] away Myanmar people fleeing battle in the neighbouring country”.