Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his family members who clung to power for decades in Sri Lanka were held responsible for the economic crisis it is facing by the Supreme Court.
The bench, in a majority 4-1 ruling, said that the respondents, including the Rajapaksa brothers- former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa- were responsible for economic mismanagement in the island country between 2019-2022.
Sri Lanka s president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has announced the appointment of a committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the country s intelligence was involved in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. The committee will be chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge. The decision comes after pressure from opposition lawmakers, religious leaders, activists, and victims relatives who claim previous probes failed to reveal the truth.