Tag: Rajapaksa
How have Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa and his family ruled the country for 20 years?
“Doesn’t anyone in your country have a surname other than Rajapaksa?” This sentence, which we quoted from a famous anecdote in Sri Lanka, seems to summarize how the Rajapaksa family…
Sri Lanka: why President Rajapaksa had to flee his official residence
Sri Lanka is sinking further into chaos. The president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled his palace in Colombo on Saturday July 9. A few minutes later, it was stormed by hundreds of…
Sri Lanka crisis: Why are the Rajapaksa brothers, popularized by suppressing the Tamil Tigers’ revolt, now the ‘bad guys’?
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing an economic crisis that has turned the lives of its 22 million people upside down. The Rajapaksa brothers, who were proclaimed heroes 13 years ago…