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Sri Lanka Gives Up on Democracy

Rajapaksas create their own Hindutva

Oct 30, 2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh

Over the past year, Sri Lanka has undergone a swift shift towards an authoritarian system of governance and power, with the Rajapaksa regime ramrodding through a constitutional amendment that almost certainly will be used to browbeat the country’s ethnic and religious minorities and the political opposition into submission.

As fore…

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