Sri Lanka; Who Is The President Maithripala Sirisena?
| by Sujeewa Amaranath and W.A. Sunil
Views expressed in this article are authors’ own
( January 17, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Maithripala Sirisena, the new president of Sri Lanka, is being showered with praises by his political proponents as a “common man,” the “son of a peasant,” “compassionate” and a political hero who defied all to end the corrupt, nepotistic and dictatorial rule of former President Mahinda Rajapakse. Tributes are being authored about him by the same Colombo media that was sycophantically lauding Rajapakse just weeks ago.
