The family, however, returned more powerful four years later, when Mahinda's brother was elected president. Gotabaya ...

THE country’s ruling party nominated a scion of the controversial Rajapaksa family to challenge the ... which ended in January 2015. His uncle, Gotabaya, also won the presidency in November ...

Weeratunga is a first cousin of Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa, both former presidents ... Their immediate family members have also been sanctioned. Both men held their offices during Mahinda ...

Colombo, March 18 (Daily Mirror) - The Supreme Court today ruled that a detention order issued by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2020 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA ...

The Rajapaksas in retreat: A look at Sri Lanka’s once powerful political family ... Lanka's Rajapaksa clan - from head of the family, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Wickremesinghe had accepted the prime minister’s office and then the presidency when his predecessor, the much vaunted “military hero” Gotabaya Rajapaksa ... He and his family instead put the nation ...