A brief history of the rise, fall of Sri Lanka's president
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Before he fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the last of six members of the country’s most influential family still clinging to power. For decades, the powerful
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Before he fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the last of six members of the country’s most influential family still clinging to power. For decades, the powerful
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa vowed to bring back the muscular nationalism that had made his family popular with the Buddhist majority, but instead, he made a series of fatal mistakes that ushered in an unprecedented crisis.
The fleeing of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the dramatic fall from grace marks a remarkable reversal of fortunes for a political family that has dominated Sri Lankan politics for almost two decades.
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