Commentary / World Jul 27, 2022
by Kaushik Basu
Sri Lanka's ruling Rajapaksa family's ill-advised economic handouts and unsustainable policies eventually ran into a wall.
Asia Pacific Jul 23, 2022
Sri Lanka troops demolish main protest camp
by Sean Gleeson
Troops and police Special Task Force commandos wielding batons and armed with automatic assault rifles charged on people blockading the seafront Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.
Asia Pacific / Politics | ANALYSIS Jul 21, 2022
For Sri Lanka's new leader, a daunting challenge awaits
by Gabriel Dominguez
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has had six stints as prime minister, is taking charge of a nation of 22 million people grappling with myriad issues even aside from the recent political turmoil.
Asia Pacific Jul 15, 2022
Sri Lankan president hands in resignation after fleeing to Singapore
by Uditha Jayasinghe, Alasdair Pal and Chen Lin
The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a citywide curfew.
Asia Pacific Jul 14, 2022
Outgoing Sri Lankan president lands in Singapore after fleeing uprising
Outgoing Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on Thursday, flight tracking data showed.
Commentary / World Jul 14, 2022
The fall of the house of Rajapaksa
by Brahma Chellaney
Through a combination of authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, and hubris, the Rajapaksa family weighed down Sri Lanka’s economy with more debt than it could possibly bear.
Asia Pacific Jul 13, 2022
Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives amid protests as economic crisis spirals
by Uditha Jayasinghe, Devjyot Ghoshal and Waruna Cudah Nimal Karunatilake
The president's flight brings an end to the rule of the powerful Rajapksa clan that has dominated politics in the South Asian nation for the last two decades.
Asia Pacific Jul 13, 2022
Once a civil war leader, now deposed: Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees nation
by Alasdair Pal
An immigration official said Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left the country by a Sri Lankan air force plane in the early hours of the day he was due to resign.
Asia Pacific Jul 12, 2022
Sri Lanka’s fallen dynasty is already planning its next comeback
by Sudhi Ranjan Sen
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's 36-year-old nephew Namal Rajapaksa has already been thinking of how the family can restore its reputation over the long term
World Jul 11, 2022
Embattled leaders in hiding, Sri Lankans ask: What’s next?
by Emily Schmall and Mujib Mashal
It is clear that whoever takes the reins of the Sri Lankan government will be walking into a crisis, inheriting a crashed economy and a public that is exhausted and furious.
World / Politics Jul 10, 2022
How Sri Lanka spiraled into crisis
by Devjyot Ghoshal and Alasdair Pal
A rundown of the major steps that led demonstrators storming the president's residence and setting fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.