DNA: Why is the Rajapaksa family responsible for Sri Lanka's economic crisis?
Gotabaya Rajapaksa was Sri Lanka's President as well as the Defense Minister. But today, the people of Sri Lanka have forced him to leave the country and run away. This shows that in a democratic country nothing is greater than the power of the people. Before the economic crisis, the Rajapaksa family had major control over most of the constitutional posts in Sri Lankan government.
Jul 14, 2022, 00:14 AM IST
Sri Lanka says investigating military links to Jaffna violence
Sri Lankan government today said it has launched a probe into the alleged involvement of army with a terror gang that has unleashed violence in Tamil-dominated Jaffna, the epicentre of the civil war which ended in 2009.
Nov 15, 2016, 15:52 PM IST
Sri Lanka's ex-defence minister slams UN rights chief's visit
Stepping up opposition to a UN-backed probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, former defence minister Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Monday denounced the UN human rights chief's visit to the country as a "big joke" and accused him of trying to please the pro-LTTE diaspora.
Feb 08, 2016, 15:55 PM IST
