For all the fine trappings he enjoyed in office as Sri Lanka’s president, Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s flight to safety was a bumpy one.
The Soviet-era Antonov AN-32 that ferried him, his wife and a bodyguard to safety to the Maldives is a sturdy and purely functional machine built for military transportation.
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