🇱🇰 Altered video of ex-Sri Lankan president in 2017 circulates in posts about him fleeing to Maldives
Facebook post on July 13, 2022. It has been viewed more than 4,000 times.
In the clip, a male voice can be heard berating the former Sri Lankan President in Tamil-language, one of the official languages of Sri Lanka.
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