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Sri Lanka’s ousted president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is expected to arrive in Thailand on Thursday, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former defence secretary and brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks to the members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 27, 2017.Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's former defence secretary and brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks to the members of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka March 27, 2017.

The former president is expected to leave Singapore and go to Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Thursday, two sources said, asking not to be named. During his time as defence secretary government forces finally defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009 to end the Sri Lankan civil war.

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Where will PhalaPhalaFarmGatePresident go? Not only is he a crook with a long list of criminal activities - he is Directly responsible for inviting the AÑelected, equally criminal WHO on to S A soil ~ Willingly & Knowingly, against the Will of the Men & Woman. TREASON

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