The Fall of the House of Rajapaksa: How Unbridled Nepotism Let Sri Lanka Down
May 10, 2022 7:45 pmIn the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, Sri Lanka elected a new president, Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa. He had been introduced to parliamentary politics way back in 1970 at the age of 24, by the legendary Sirima Bandaranaike, to replace his deceased father, D. A. Rajapaksa. The young lawyer was exuberant and a mass mobiliser. After […]