Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's past is marred by controversy, which includes allegations of war crimes and the harassment of journalists
with the Bodu Bala Sena , an extremist Buddhist group that surfaced in 2012 and has since attacked Muslim stores and homes.
Between 2005 and 2015, he was the powerful Defence Secretary during the reign of his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former president and SLPP’s leader. On Thursday, Gotabaya swore in Mahinda as the new prime minister. “And certainly all conflict zones produce civilian casualties just like it did in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Some estimates suggest that around 40,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the last months of conflict in 2009. Gotabaya has rebuffed criticism of his tactics as western propaganda. And war crime cases inBut the end of the war hasn’t healed Sri Lanka’s deep ethnic schism. The Rajapaksa clan has once again cemented grip on the Sri Lankan government after Gotabaya appointed Mahinda as the new prime minister.
The respected journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of The Sunday Leader, who broke the story, was served a defamation suit by Gotabya’s lawyers.
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