Namal Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, is running for president in Sri Lanka. Despite his efforts to present himself as an agent of change, many see his candidacy as a bid for ...

The group was crushed in a 2009 government offensive headed by Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa to end the separatist civil war that broke out in 1983 and left at least 100,000 on both sides, ...