Sri Lankans' Fury Forced the Powerful Rajapaksa Clan Out. Now Its Heir is Running for President
The family, however, returned more powerful four years later, when Mahinda's brother was elected president. Gotabaya ...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa's son indicted in legal action in Sri Lanka
Namal Rajapaksa, son of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa ... with the case scheduled for March 27. The Rajapaksa family claims the charges are part of a political witch hunt, as ...
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Heir apparent to Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa family will run in September's presidential election
Mahinda Rajapaksa ruled as president from ... the Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 290 people. But the Rajapaksa family lost power unexpectedly in 2022 when Sri Lanka was engulfed ...
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The Murder of a Journalist
LW’s silence was worth more to the Rajapaksa family in particular, than to anybody else in the country. In fact, LW’s murder was apparently preceded by an unsuccessful attempt, in 2007, by Mahinda ...
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Contentious Rajapaksa scion enters presidential race
THE country’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family to challenge the ... a former sports minister under his father Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency, which ended ...
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Police say Yoshitha Rajapaksa not involved in nightclub brawl
Colombo, March 24 (Daily Mirror) - Initial investigations have revealed that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son, Yoshitha Rajapaksa was not involved in the brawl that took place at the ...
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Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives as protests end clan dominance
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president's elder brother, resigned as prime minister in May after protests against the family turned violent. He remained in hiding at a military base in the east of the ...
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Mahinda Rajapaksa’s contributions far outweigh foreign travel expenses: Cassilingam
Colombo, Feb 28 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Jaffna District Organizer Geethanath Cassilingam has defended former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, stating that his contributions ...
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Rajapaksa Mahinda
Earlier this month, Sri Lanka's entire Cabinet -- aside from President Gotabaya and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa -- resigned from their posts after thousands of people ...
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Separate territory not viable in ‘little’ Lanka, says Mahinda
Presidential hopeful Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse yesterday declared that he was ready to accept the challenge of establishing a unitary and peaceful Sri Lanka while devolving power to the maximum ...
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President’s efforts come a cropper
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's efforts to have the Sri Lanka Freedom Party's Central Committee exert pressure on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse to reverse his decision to do away ...