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Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was preparing Sunday to finally give up power after he fled from protesters who stormed his home, forcing him to announce his resignation. The events on Saturday were the culmination of months of anti-government protests fuelled by an unprecedented economic crisis that bankrupted the South Asian island nation, and fury over the ruling Rajapaksa clan’s corruption. The protesters in Sri Lanka stormed the Presidential palace, took control if it, the president flee out of the capital and offered his resignation. pic.twitter.com/8rvoqgbP4Q — Asaad Sam Hanna …