FILE Photo: Visitors at the ruins of a historic fort complex in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on March 8, 2018. The fort was the scene of many battles in the civil war that ended in 2009. Last week in Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa told reporters that he had started the process of renouncing his US citizenship, a requirement for contesting the presidency, which his brother relinquished after losing a 2015 election. The essence of the candidate’s argument, Rambukwella said, would be that human rights campaigners are persecuting leaders who liberated Sri Lanka from civil war. But rights advocates say that the California cases are important because they focus international scrutiny on the Rajapaksa family’s wartime actions.

Source: bd News24 April 20, 2019 03:56 UTC