What is the relation between Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa?

What is the relation between Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa?

In 2018, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of Mahinda Rajapaksa emerged as a possible candidate for the 2019 Presidential election, which he successfully contested on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and national security platform gaining a majority, from the predominant Sinhalese areas of the island.

What happened to Sri Lankan Tamils?

A United Nations panel found that as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have been killed in the final months of the civil war. In January 2020, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the estimated 20,000+ disappeared Sri Lankan Tamils were dead. One-third of Sri Lankan Tamils now live outside Sri Lanka.

What is the rank of Gotabaya Rajapaksa?

Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Who betrayed Prabhakaran LTTE?

In 1987 he became the deputy leader of the LTTE, and in 1989 he became the head of the short-lived People’s Front of Liberation Tigers, a political party founded by the LTTE. Mahattaya was the person who was leading most of the attacks done by LTTE when Prabhakaran was in India until 1986.

Do the Tamil Tigers still exist?

Over a decade after the civil war ended, the country is still dealing with its consequences. More than a decade ago they wore the banded tropical fatigues of the Tamil Tigers, more formally known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Who is the famous leader in Sri Lanka?

Mahinda Rajapaksa