For every gesture of unity, there has been a contrary, sectarian one
long civil war was drawing to a close in 2009, the army surrounded 100,000 civilians on a tiny sliver of beach, barely three square kilometres in size. Mixed in among them were a small number of separatist guerrillas, the remnants of a once-formidable force that had been battling for an independent state for the country’s Tamil minority for 26 years. The insurgents had no compunction about using innocent villagers as human shields.
It may be that Mr Rajapaksa proves a good economic manager, although the record of his brother, Mahinda, who was president from 2005 to 2015 and whom Gotabaya intends to appoint as prime minister, was mixed. Sri Lanka certainly needs to get on with post-war reconstruction, which has proceeded distressingly slowly and would benefit from a more efficient, driven government.
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