evidence: On the foreign hand allegedly behind his ouster, Gotabaya says in a chapter entitled: Destabilisation by Fifth Columnists: "It would be extremely naïve for anyone to claim that there was no foreign hand in the moves made to oust me from power." [...] Gotabaya says that his Government, formed in November 2019, was "unfairly prejudged from the beginning by certain external parties." [...] About the street protests over the shortage of food, fuel and other necessities, called Aragalaya (Struggle), Gotabaya says that he allowed them in front of the Presidential Secretariat without any hindrance. Tents, mobile toilets and an "inexhaustible supply of food and drink began to arrive at the site to encourage the protesters," he recalls, hinting that the Struggle was well-planned and funded by various local and foreign sources.