Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 70, likely the next President of Sri Lanka, is best known as the man who crushed the Tamil Tigers. Gotabaya has been accused of human rights violations in Sri Lanka, Europe and the United States. Gotabaya has a barely disguised obsession with national security and probably sees himself more as a national security tsar than a conventional president. AdvertisingEarly in the first term of the Narendra Modi government in India, when Gotabaya was in charge of Sri Lanka’s defence ministry, New Delhi had protested against a Chinese submarine docking in Sri Lanka. Colombo had at the time said this was “nothing unusual” and military vessels of many countries have over the years come to Sri Lanka on “goodwill visits and for refuelling and crew refreshment”.

Source: Indian Express November 17, 2019 08:03 UTC