Sri Lanka's disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
has stepped down from his post, signalling an end to a weeks-long
political crisis that has kept the Indian Ocean nation without a
functional government.
Sri Lanka
has been in crisis since October when the president fired Prime
Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe amid a bitter power struggle, and replaced
him with Rajapaksa, a popular former president who is accused of corruption and wartime atrocities.
Rajapaksa signed a letter of resignation in
front of supporters and journalists at his private residence in the
country's capital, Colombo, on Saturday Dec 15,2018
In a subsequent statement, the 73-year-old said he
was bowing out to allow President Maithripala Sirisena to "form a new
government"
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