A defense official Sri Lanka said former President Sri Lanka Rajapaksa could return from Thailand to the island nation on the morning of September 3.

He was at a hotel in Thailand, no different from a prisoner and wanted to return, an anonymous Sri Lanka defense official said on September 2, referring to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Mr. Rajapaksa came to Thailand on August 12, who could stay for 90 days but decided to return to his wife, a bodyguard and an assistant.

The Sri Lanka Constitution stipulates that former presidents will be granted bodyguards, a means of transportation and housing.

Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, England in November 2021.

Mr. Rajapaksa enters Singapore as an ordinary people on July 14, one day after fleeing Sri Lanka due to protests.

Singapore officials granted Rajapaksa visa for two weeks, then extended two weeks, until August 11.

Former President Rajapaksa became the focus of criticism of Sri Lanka protesters.

The opposition parties at Sri Lanka said on July 28, which would filed a corruption alleged against the former president if he returned home.

Former Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in Thailand to temporarily temporarily stay after his visa in Singapore expired.

The new President Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the former leader of Gotabaya Rajapaksa could continue to continue to increase tensions.