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Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins Sri Lankan presidency, minorities rattled

Sri Lanka’s former civil wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa was declared the winner in the presidential election yesterday, after promising to secure the country against militant threats following Easter bombings this year. Rajapaksa, who will be sworn into office in

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Polarising presidential candidate reaching out minorities amid suspicions

BERUWALA: Sri Lanka presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been a polarizing figure for much of his political life. It is an image he is trying to change. When he was defense chief in his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government he crushed

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