A top-level conference of senior Army officers, held around 9.30 p.m. on May 9, 2022, when Temple Trees came under siege from protestors, is relevant. Then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered Gen.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa released a statement on March 6th that his book will be launched on March 7th 2024. He also posted on X as follows – My book “The Conspiracy to oust me from the Presidency” will be ...

Gotabaya Rajapaksa contacted Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena by mobile phone and informed the Speaker -without revealing his whereabouts - that he would return to Colombo by July 13.

Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been accused of tampering with police records to hamper investigations into mass graves discovered in an area where he was a military officer at ...

The primary demand of the 2022 protests – the removal of Gotabaya Rajapaksa from his role as president – has been achieved, but the secondary demand of “system change” has not.

To track the Rajapaksa family tree is to track the most important positions in the Sri Lankan government. With the recent appointment of Basil Rajapaksa, the youngest of the Rajapaksa brothers, as ...

LTTE’s Abortive Attempt to Assassinate Gotabaya Rajapaksa at “Pithala Handhiya” on December 1st 2006. ... Gota Malli” tightly and hugged him speechlessly for more than a minute when Gotabaya arrived ...

We know that on May 9, [former] prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa brought people such as his confidantes, thieves, and thugs to a conference [at his office, Temple Trees]. At this conference, they had ...

He blames the Rajapaksa family: ... most recently, until May. His brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa was president from 2019 until last month. ... who normally spends his time meditating under trees.

People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence for the second day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, July 11, 2022. AP Photo by Rafiq Maqbool.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 73, is set to resign on Wednesday (July 13) after months of street protests over surging prices and shortages of basic goods such as food or petrol.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, who fled his country early Wednesday after months of fervent protests blaming him for the country’s economic collapse and ...