When democracy stood upon a razor’s edge
January 17, 2015
By all accounts, Asia’s oldest democracy stood at grave risk one week ago. The courage of a few public servants and military chiefs, who decided at the eleventh hour that the time was right to speak truth to power, may have saved the day. Without their determination, Sri Lankans may well have woken up in a very different country on 9 January. From palace intrigue to the high stakes involved in victory and defeat, this was surely one of Sri Lanka’s landmark elections
“They called us terrorists, traitors and thieves; we called ourselves citizens” – CPA statement on the presidential election 2015