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Tag: Tamils

Rajapaksas seek Sinhalese supremacy in Sri Lanka

by Salman Rafi Sheikh December 3, 2020December 7, 2020

With Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa clan back in power, the island nation is by any measure firmly back on a path to elected authoritarianism. But the Rajapaksas aspire not just to the concentration of power in the office of the president, currently occupied by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, but rather a new and potentially destabilizing form of absolute […]

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