REPORT: 2017 WAS A PERIOD OF DISILLUSIONMENT AMIDST SOME PROGRESS IN SRI LANKA

2017 was a decisive year for Sri Lanka, showing what progress had – and hadn’t – been made in the past few years.

15/07/2018


In January 2015, a new government was elected with a massive intervention on the part of the people. For 10 years, their premiere, Mahinda Rajapaksa, ran an authoritarian regime. During this regime, one of the most visible signs of its authoritarian behaviour was the use of overt forms of violence on the people. The Ministry of Defense, which was the most powerful ministry during this time, was run by Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was the president’s younger brother. The basic internal control mechanism in the country came under the control this ministry. The Defense Secretary developed ways to control all activities of the armed forces and the police. In this way, he became the most powerful man within the state apparatus.

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