Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has issued a special statement to mark the 16th year anniversary since the defeat of LTTE ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday said he is ready to make "any sacrifice" for the people amidst reports that the Sri Lankan Prime Minister may offer to stand down, as pressure mounts on the embattled ...

His cabinet resigned on Monday — including prime minister Mahinda. In an attempt ... critics hope this is the last stand of the once-mighty Rajapaksa family. “[Their] base has diminished ...

In 2009, Mr. Rajapaksa and his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, then Sri Lanka’s president, ended that conflict, but they stand accused of crimes against humanity, including directing the bombings of ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as Sri Lanka's Prime Minister ... His Cabinet will also stand dissolved, Abeywardena was quoted as saying by the Colombo Gazette. The apex court's Friday ruling came ...

Their biggest victory came when they forced the Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to stand down. Mr Rajapaksa may have hoped the crisis would end with him. It didn't. While he went into hiding ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is not the first member of the family to have been president. His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, who like Gotabaya was widely considered a “war hero” among the majority ...

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa emphasized that Sri Lanka's civil war was waged to secure peace and preserve national ...

With the launch in the south last week, the Ekwa Nagitimu or stand up in unity gets under way in the hill ... protestors in retaliatory attacks and later repaired. Party leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said, ...

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's son Yoshitha Rajapaksa was arrested by police on Saturday on corruption charges in a property purchase case. Ex-navy officer Yoshitha was ...

They were once seen as heroes of the nation, the almost mythical warrior-king leaders who defeated the separatists in a bloody civil war.