Marcos to Rajapaksa: A short guide to leaders fleeing their nations

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is not the first leader to have fled their country in the face of popular unrest. Here is a brief list mentioning some of them

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, hours before he was due to step down after a people's uprising over a devastating economic crisis ended his family's grip on the island nation.

A Reuters report quoting a government source and a person close to Rajapaksa said he was in Male, the capital of the Maldives. Rajapaksa would most likely proceed to another Asian country from there, the government source said.

Rajapaksa is not the first leader to have fled their country in the face of popular unrest. Here is a brief list mentioning some of them.

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