Gotabaya Rajapaksa elected president of Sri Lanka
Victory for nationalist ex-army general raises fears over rights and religious harmony
Sri Lanka’s former wartime defence minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa, part of the country’s most powerful political dynasty, has been elected president, raising fears about the future of human rights and religious harmony in the region.
Rajapaksa, the candidate for the SLPP, the Sinhalese-Buddhist nationalist party, claimed an easy victory in the election held on Saturday, which took place against a backdrop of some of the worst political instability and violence the country has seen since the end of the civil war a decade ago.
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