Click to expand Image President Ranil Wickremesinghe and former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Navam Perahera festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on February 5, 2023. 2023 Thilina Kaluthotage/NurPhoto via AP On July 13, 2022, many streets in Colombo - Sri Lanka's capital - erupted into celebration after weeks of peaceful protests forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Rajapaksa, long implicated in war crimes when he was defense secretary, had presided over an economic catastrophe amid allegations of widespread corruption and impunity. But a year later, despite some superficial changes, there is no sustained improvement in the country's economic situation that impinges many people's human rights. The acute shortage of fuel that was the most visible feature of the economic crisis has eased. But more than six million people - nearly 30 percent of the population - are food-insecure and require humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. Se