With the stranglehold on polity and economy, characteristic of South Asian politics, the Rajapaksas used a toxic glue of racism and religious enmity to bind the Sinhala majority to their political will, which expectedly misfired.
Demonstrators celebrate after they entered into Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe s office during a protest demanding for his resignation, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, amid th