<p>The ousted president of Sri Lanka Gobataya Rajapaksa will reportedly return to his home country on Wednesday 24 August. If so, his temporary stay in Thailand will amount to only two weeks although the Thai government gave permission of 90 days.</p>

<p>Giving Sri Lanka&rsquo;s former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa temporary permission to stay in Thailand could lead to pressures from civil society to prosecute him for war crimes and to questions about how the Thai government has treated refugees who are much more in need of help, such as Rohingyas, Uyghurs and ethnic minorities crossing the Myanmar border, according to a former National Human Rights Commissioner.</p>