Demonstrators and artists prepare themselves with body paint for a choreographed march opposite the Presidential Secretariat. Image by Sandesh Bartlett via Groundviews. This photo essay was first published by Sri Lankan photographer Sandesh Bartlett in Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website. An edited version is published here as part of a content-sharing agreement with Global Voices. On July 9, 2022, former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country after a peaceful mass uprising and he eventually resigned. The strange poetic irony of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s fall from …
