The family, however, returned more powerful four years later, when Mahinda’s brother was elected president. Gotabaya Rajapaksa whipped up majority Buddhist Sinhalese sentiments after the 2019 ...

The family, however, returned more powerful four years later, when Mahinda's brother was elected president. Gotabaya ...

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 ...

Its all-powerful Rajapaksa family were hounded out of power. President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa fled the country while PM Mahinda ...

Then, in 1998, Mr Rajapaska and his family moved to the US - returning in 2005, the year his brother Mahinda became president. Under his brother's presidency, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed the ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is following former Presidents – Ranil Wickremesinghe and Mahinda Rajapaksa – when it ...

The federal government insists that the Murugappan family do not meet the refugee criteria and can be safely returned to Sri Lanka. Janet Parker takes a look at the adverse security situation for ...