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Ranil Wickremesingh
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa sworn in as Sri Lankan PM

Rajapaksa’s presidency saw the brutal suppression of the armed group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), massive human rights violations against the Tamil community, a huge rise in Sinhala ethnic chauvinism and a crackdown on media.