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Legal dispute with Lasantha Wickrematunge </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Legal_dispute_with_Lasantha_Wickrematunge-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alleged_human_rights_violations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alleged_human_rights_violations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.5 Alleged human rights violations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alleged_human_rights_violations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Relationship_with_the_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relationship_with_the_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.6 Relationship with the media </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relationship_with_the_media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alleged_corruption" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alleged_corruption"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.7 Alleged corruption </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alleged_corruption-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Personal life </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Personal life subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alleged_assassination_plot" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alleged_assassination_plot"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Alleged assassination plot </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alleged_assassination_plot-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2019_presidential_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2019_presidential_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 2019 presidential campaign </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-2019_presidential_campaign-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle 2019 presidential campaign subsection </button> <ul id="toc-2019_presidential_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-United_States_lawsuit" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States_lawsuit"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 United States lawsuit </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States_lawsuit-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citizenship_row" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citizenship_row"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Citizenship row </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citizenship_row-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Presidency_(2019–2022)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Presidency_(2019–2022)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Presidency (2019–2022) </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Presidency_(2019–2022)-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Presidency (2019–2022) subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Presidency_(2019–2022)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-COVID-19_pandemic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#COVID-19_pandemic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 COVID-19 pandemic </div> </a> <ul id="toc-COVID-19_pandemic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Environmental_Policy_and_Deforestation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Environmental_Policy_and_Deforestation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.3 Environmental Policy and Deforestation </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Environmental_Policy_and_Deforestation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Agricultural_catastrophe" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Agricultural_catastrophe"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.4 Agricultural catastrophe </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Agricultural_catastrophe-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economic_crisis_and_downfall" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Economic_crisis_and_downfall"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.5 Economic crisis and downfall </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Economic_crisis_and_downfall-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Resignation_and_exile" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Resignation_and_exile"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.6 Resignation and exile </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Resignation_and_exile-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-presidency" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-presidency"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Post-presidency </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Post-presidency-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Post-presidency subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Post-presidency-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Return_to_Sri_Lanka" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Return_to_Sri_Lanka"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 Return to Sri Lanka </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Return_to_Sri_Lanka-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Conviction_of_economic_mismanagement" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Conviction_of_economic_mismanagement"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 Conviction of economic mismanagement </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Conviction_of_economic_mismanagement-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Honours_and_awards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Honours_and_awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Honours and awards </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Honours_and_awards-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Honours and awards subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Honours_and_awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Decorations_and_medals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Decorations_and_medals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Decorations and medals </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Decorations_and_medals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Honorary_degrees" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Honorary_degrees"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Honorary degrees </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Honorary_degrees-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Environmental_awards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Environmental_awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.3 Environmental awards </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Environmental_awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div 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hreflang="ar" data-title="غوتابايا راجاباكسا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7" title="গোঠাভয় রাজাপক্ষ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="গোঠাভয় রাজাপক্ষ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%8D" title="Гатабая Раджапаксэ – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Гатабая Раджапаксэ" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0" title="Готабая Раджапакса – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Готабая Раджапакса" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaja_Rad%C5%BEapaksa" title="Gotabaja Radžapaksa – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Gotabaja Radžapaksa" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%A1%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BA%CF%83%CE%B5" title="Γκοταμπάγια Ραγιαπάκσε – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Γκοταμπάγια Ραγιαπάκσε" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7" title="گوتابایا راجاپاکسا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گوتابایا راجاپاکسا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%A0%ED%83%80%EB%B0%94%EC%95%BC_%EB%9D%BC%EC%9E%90%ED%8C%8D%EC%82%AC" title="고타바야 라자팍사 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="고타바야 라자팍사" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" 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title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Gotabaya Rajapaksa" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a 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href="/wiki/Excellency" title="Excellency">His Excellency</a></div><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Gotabaya Rajapaksa</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Rana_Wickrama_Padakkama" title="Rana Wickrama Padakkama">RWP</a> <a href="/wiki/Rana_Sura_Padakkama" title="Rana Sura Padakkama">RSP</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%; font-weight:bold;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_November_2019_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_November_2019_crop.jpg/220px-Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_November_2019_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_November_2019_crop.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="301" data-file-height="401" /></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Rajapaksa in 2019</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">8th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">President of Sri Lanka</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 18 November 2019 – 14 July 2022</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a> <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Defence</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 28 November 2019 – 14 July 2022</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Himself</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Technology_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Technology (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Technology</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 26 November 2020 – 14 July 2022</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data">Himself</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Prime Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Susil_Premajayantha" title="Susil Premajayantha">Susil Premajayantha</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)#Secretaries" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none">In office 19 November 2005 – 9 January 2015</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Minister</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Asoka_Jayawardena" title="Asoka Jayawardena">Asoka Jayawardena</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/B._M._U._D._Basnayake" title="B. M. U. D. Basnayake">B. M. U. D. Basnayake</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa</div> (1949-06-20) 20 June 1949 (age 75) <a href="/wiki/Matara_District" title="Matara District">Palatuwa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_Ceylon" title="Dominion of Ceylon">Dominion of Ceylon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data">Sri Lanka (1949–2003, 2005–present)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> United States (2003–2019)<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-peopleWantNonTraditional-5">[5]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Ayoma Rajapaksa</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1980)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. 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1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, <a href="/wiki/Rana_Wickrama_Padakkama" title="Rana Wickrama Padakkama">RWP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rana_Sura_Padakkama" title="Rana Sura Padakkama">RSP</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>: නන්දසේන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ; <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: நந்தசேன கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ; born 20 June 1949) is a former Sri Lankan politician and military officer, who served as the eighth <a href="/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">president of Sri Lanka</a> from 18 November 2019 until his <a href="/wiki/Resignation_of_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" class="mw-redirect" title="Resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa">resignation</a> on 14 July 2022.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> He previously served as <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)#Permanent_Secretaries" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Secretary</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Ministry of Defence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Urban_Development_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Urban Development (Sri Lanka)">Urban Development</a> from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former President <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a>, during the final phase of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Sri Lankan Civil War</a>. Born to a <a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">political family</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Province,_Sri_Lanka" title="Southern Province, Sri Lanka">Southern Province</a>, Rajapaksa was educated at <a href="/wiki/Ananda_College" title="Ananda College">Ananda College, Colombo</a> and joined the <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Army">Ceylon Army</a> in April 1971. Following basic training at the <a href="/wiki/Army_Training_Centre,_Diyatalawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa">Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa</a>, he was commissioned as <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Signals_Corps" title="Sri Lanka Signals Corps">signals officer</a> and later transferred to several <a href="/wiki/Infantry" title="Infantry">infantry</a> regiments.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] He saw active service in the early stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War with the elite <a href="/wiki/Gajaba_Regiment" title="Gajaba Regiment">Gajaba Regiment</a>, taking part in several major offensives such as the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Liberation" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Liberation">Vadamarachi Operation</a>, Operation Strike Hard and <a href="/wiki/Operation_Thrividha_Balaya" title="Operation Thrividha Balaya">Operation Thrividha Balaya</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Counter-insurgency" class="mw-redirect" title="Counter-insurgency">counter-insurgency operations</a> during the <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%931989_JVP_insurrection" title="1987–1989 JVP insurrection">1987–1989 JVP insurrection</a>. Rajapaksa took early retirement from the army and moved into the field of information technology, before migrating to the United States in 1998. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2005, to assist his brother in his presidential campaign and was appointed Defence Secretary in his brother's administration. During his tenure the Sri Lankan Armed Forces successfully concluded the Sri Lankan Civil War defeating the <a href="/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam" title="Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam">LTTE</a> and killing its leader, <a href="/wiki/Velupillai_Prabhakaran" title="Velupillai Prabhakaran">Velupillai Prabhakaran</a> in 2009. He was a target of an assassination attempt in December 2006 by a Tamil Tiger <a href="/wiki/Suicide_bomber" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide bomber">suicide bomber</a>. Following the war, Rajapaksa initiated many urban development projects. He stepped down following the defeat of his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2015 Sri Lankan presidential election">2015 presidential election</a>. Rajapaksa emerged as the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">SLPP</a> candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 presidential election</a>, in which he successfully contested on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and national security platform. He was the first president of Sri Lanka with military background and also the first elected president who had never held an elected office before.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> During his presidency, Rajapaksa increased his presidential powers through the <a href="/wiki/Twentieth_Amendment_to_the_Constitution_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka">20th Amendment</a> and nepotism rose as members of the Rajapaksa family were appointed to several positions of power, and led the country during the onset of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sri_Lanka" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka">COVID-19 pandemic</a>. Economic mismanagement drove the country to bankruptcy, causing Sri Lanka to declare <a href="/wiki/Default_(finance)" title="Default (finance)">default</a> for the first time since gaining independence in 1948. This <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%93present_Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis">economic crisis</a> caused shortages and inflation, leading to the <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan protests</a> and <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_political_crisis" title="2022 Sri Lankan political crisis">political crisis</a>. The Rajapaksa administration responded by declaring a <a href="/wiki/State_of_emergency" title="State of emergency">state of emergency</a>, which allowed the military to arrest civilians, imposing <a href="/wiki/Curfew" title="Curfew">curfews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">restricting social media</a>, assaulting protesters and journalists, and arresting online activists. Rajapaksa refused to step down, even after protests became violent, until 14 July, when <a href="/wiki/Exile_of_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Rajapaksa fled the country</a> via a military aircraft and began a 50-day self-exile,<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> and officially emailed his resignation letter from Singapore the next day. Rajapaksa later returned to Sri Lanka, on 2 September. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>]</div> Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> was born in Palatuwa in the <a href="/wiki/Matara_District" title="Matara District">Matara District</a>,<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> as the fifth of nine siblings, and was brought up in <a href="/wiki/Weeraketiya" title="Weeraketiya">Weeraketiya</a> in the southern rural <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Districts of Sri Lanka">district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hambantota" title="Hambantota">Hambantota</a>. He hails from a well-known political family in Sri Lanka. His father, <a href="/wiki/D._A._Rajapaksa" title="D. A. Rajapaksa">D. A. Rajapaksa</a>, was a prominent politician, independence agitator, Member of Parliament, Deputy Speaker and Cabinet Minister of Agriculture and Land in <a href="/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake" title="Wijeyananda Dahanayake">Wijeyananda Dahanayake</a>'s government. His elder brother, <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> was first elected to parliament as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Freedom_Party" title="Sri Lanka Freedom Party">Sri Lanka Freedom Party</a> at the age of 24 in 1970, who gradually rose through the party ranks becoming the Leader of the Opposition in 2001, Prime Minister in 2004 and the President of Sri Lanka in 2005. Two of his other brothers, <a href="/wiki/Chamal_Rajapaksa" title="Chamal Rajapaksa">Chamal Rajapaksa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basil_Rajapaksa" title="Basil Rajapaksa">Basil Rajapaksa</a>, are also current Members of Parliament. He obtained his primary and secondary education at <a href="/wiki/Ananda_College" title="Ananda College">Ananda College, Colombo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military_career_(1971–1991)">Military career (1971–1991)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Military career (1971–1991)">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early career">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-BLP_sources_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-BLP_sources" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/40px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/60px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/80px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section of a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">biography of a living person</a> needs additional <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">citations</a> for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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Following his basic officer training at the <a href="/wiki/Army_Training_Centre,_Diyatalawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa">Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa</a> in its 4th intake, he was commissioned as a <a href="/wiki/Second_lieutenant" title="Second lieutenant">second lieutenant</a> on 26 May 1972, in the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Signals_Corps" title="Sri Lanka Signals Corps">Sri Lanka Signals Corps</a>. Soon after he was sent for the signal young officers course at the <a href="/wiki/Military_College_of_Signals" title="Military College of Signals">Military College of Signals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rawalpindi" title="Rawalpindi">Rawalpindi</a>. On his return, he was assigned as the signals officer to the <a href="/wiki/Task_Force_Anti_Illicit_Immigration" title="Task Force Anti Illicit Immigration">Task Force Anti Illicit Immigration</a>, based at its headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Palaly_Military_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Palaly Military Base">Palaly</a>, under the command of Colonel <a href="/wiki/Tissa_Weeratunga" title="Tissa Weeratunga">Tissa Weeratunga</a>. In April 1974, he was promoted to Lieutenant and in October he transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Sinha_Regiment" title="Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment">Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment</a> as an infantry officer. In April 1975, he attended the infantry young officers course at the School of Infantry and Tactics, <a href="/wiki/Queta" class="mw-redirect" title="Queta">Queta</a>. Returning in June, he was assigned as the battalion intelligence officer at the <a href="/wiki/Echelon_Barracks" title="Echelon Barracks">Echelon Barracks</a> in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a> and was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Captain_(armed_forces)" title="Captain (armed forces)">captain</a> in April 1977. Following the change of government in the <a href="/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="1977 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">1977 general election</a>, he was transferred to the Army Training Centre, Diyatalawa as an officer instructor in August 1977. In January 1978, he was appointed <a href="/wiki/Staff_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Staff Officer">Grade III Staff Officer</a> of <a href="/wiki/Staff_(military)#British_Army_staff" title="Staff (military)">A branch</a>, handling administration of the <a href="/wiki/Diyatalawa_Garrison" title="Diyatalawa Garrison">Diyatalawa Garrison</a>. During this time he attended the senior staff and tactics course at the <a href="/wiki/Panagoda_Cantonment" title="Panagoda Cantonment">Panagoda Cantonment</a> and took part in preparing a report on encroachment of state lands in the north and eastern provinces for the Defense Ministry. Thereafter in 1980, he joined the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Rajarata_Rifles" title="Rajarata Rifles">Rajarata Rifles</a> as its <a href="/wiki/Adjutant" title="Adjutant">adjutant</a> under its first commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel V. K. Nanayakkara. Rajapaksa played a major role in establishing the regimental headquarters of the newly formed regiment at <a href="/wiki/Saliyapura_Army_Camp" title="Saliyapura Army Camp">Saliyapura</a>. That year he attended the <a href="/wiki/Counter-Insurgency_and_Jungle_Warfare_School_(India)" title="Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (India)">Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School</a>, Assam and in 1982 he was selected to attended the Command and Staff course at <a href="/wiki/Defence_Services_Staff_College" title="Defence Services Staff College">Defence Services Staff College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Cantonment" title="Wellington Cantonment">Wellington</a> in India, gaining the <a href="/wiki/Psc_(military)" title="Psc (military)">psc</a> qualification and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">Master of Science</a> in Defence and Strategic Studies from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Madras" title="University of Madras">University of Madras</a>.<a href="#cite_note-www.defence.lk-13">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gajaba_Regiment">Gajaba Regiment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Gajaba Regiment">edit</a>]</div> While Rajapaksa was at staff college in India, the Rajarata Rifles were amalgamated with the <a href="/wiki/Vijayabahu_Infantry_Regiment" title="Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment">Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Gajaba_Regiment" title="Gajaba Regiment">Gajaba Regiment</a> was formed. Having been transferred to the Gajaba Regiment, on his return to the island, he was appointed second-in-command of the 1st Battalion, Gajaba Regiment (1GR) under the command of Lieutenant Colonel <a href="/wiki/Vijaya_Wimalaratne" title="Vijaya Wimalaratne">Vijaya Wimalaratne</a>, instead of the traditional staff appointment that followed the returning officer from staff college. Following retraining, the 1st Battalion was deployed to the Jaffna peninsula between 1983 and 1984 and again 1985 with the escalation of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Sri Lankan Civil War</a>. During this time he commanded detachments of his battalion based in <a href="/wiki/Jaffna" title="Jaffna">Jaffna</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Elephant_Pass" title="Elephant Pass">Elephant Pass</a>. In 1985 he led an ad hoc unit made up of new recruits that successfully ambushed a LTTE raiding party, for which he was awarded commendation from the President <a href="/wiki/J.R._Jayewardene" class="mw-redirect" title="J.R. Jayewardene">J.R. Jayewardene</a> in the first combat award ceremony. He took part in <a href="/wiki/Operation_Liberation" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Liberation">Operation Liberation</a> commanding the 1GR, the offensive mounted to liberate <a href="/wiki/Vadamarachi" class="mw-redirect" title="Vadamarachi">Vadamarachi</a> from <a href="/wiki/LTTE" class="mw-redirect" title="LTTE">LTTE</a> in 1987. In July 1987, the 1GR was transferred to Colombo and Rajapaksa assisted Colonel Wimalaratne in securing Colombo with the outset of the <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%931989_JVP_insurrection" title="1987–1989 JVP insurrection">second JVP insurrection</a> until his battalion was transferred to Trincomalee in October 1987. In December 1987, Rajapaksa appointed a <a href="/wiki/Staff_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Staff Officer">Grade II Staff Officer</a> at <a href="/wiki/Army_Headquarters_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Army Headquarters (Sri Lanka)">Army Headquarters</a> in the training branch under Colonel <a href="/wiki/C._H._Fernando" title="C. H. Fernando">C. H. Fernando</a>, Director of Training. In 1988, he attended the advanced infantry officers course at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Infantry_School" title="United States Army Infantry School">United States Army Infantry School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Benning" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Benning">Fort Benning</a>. He was promoted to <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel" title="Lieutenant colonel">lieutenant colonel</a> while in course and returned to his staff appointment at Army Headquarters in January 1989. In July 1989, he was appointed commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, Gajaba Regiment. Soon after the 1GR was moved to <a href="/wiki/Matale" title="Matale">Matale</a> and Rajapaksa was appointment as the military coordinating officer of the <a href="/wiki/Matale_District" title="Matale District">Matale District</a> at the height of the <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%931989_JVP_insurrection" title="1987–1989 JVP insurrection">1987–1989 JVP insurrection</a> undertaking counter insurgency operations in the district and remained in that capacity until end of the insurrection in December 1989. During 1990, he commanded 1GR in <a href="/wiki/Weli_Oya" title="Weli Oya">Weli Oya</a>, serving as the military coordinating officer for the Weli Oya sector under the command of <a href="/wiki/Brigadier" title="Brigadier">Brigadier</a> <a href="/wiki/Janaka_Perera" title="Janaka Perera">Janaka Perera</a> and with 1 GR took part in the Operation "Strike Hard" and <a href="/wiki/Operation_Thrividha_Balaya" title="Operation Thrividha Balaya">Operation Thrividha Balaya</a> in Jaffna under the command of <a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">Major General</a> <a href="/wiki/Denzil_Kobbekaduwa" title="Denzil Kobbekaduwa">Denzil Kobbekaduwa</a>. In January 1991, he was appointed Deputy Commandant of the <a href="/wiki/Kotelawala_Defence_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Kotelawala Defence Academy">Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy</a> and held the position until his early retirement from the army on 1 November 1991.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Immigration_to_the_United_States">Immigration to the United States</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Immigration to the United States">edit</a>]</div> Following his return to civilian life, Rajapaksa read for a postgraduate diploma in information technology from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Colombo" title="University of Colombo">University of Colombo</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> and joined Informatics, an IT firm based in Colombo as a Marketing Manager in 1992. He subsequently migrated to the United States in 1998 and worked at <a href="/wiki/Loyola_Law_School" title="Loyola Law School">Loyola Law School</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> in Los Angeles, U.S., as a Systems Integrator and <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a> <a href="/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solaris (operating system)">Solaris</a> Administrator.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Secretary_to_the_Ministry_of_Defence_and_Urban_Development_(2005–2015)">Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development (2005–2015)</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development (2005–2015)">edit</a>]</div> In order to assist his brother's presidential election campaign, Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka from the United States in 2005. He re obtained citizenship of Sri Lanka but kept his US citizenship. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was appointed to the post of <a href="/wiki/Permanent_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Permanent Secretary">Permanent Secretary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Ministry of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Ministry of Defence</a> in November 2005 by newly elected President Mahinda Rajapaksa. In this capacity, he oversaw the military operation which eventually defeated the LTTE in May 2009. With his position, Rajapaksa also pursued projects like the Colombo Beautification Project, which revitalised public centers and parks in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>,<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> as well as many other development projects focused on places such as <a href="/wiki/Battaramulla" title="Battaramulla">Battaramulla</a> <a href="/wiki/Diyatha_Uyana" title="Diyatha Uyana">Diyatha Uyana</a>, Ape Gama Park, Wetland Park, <a href="/wiki/Nugegoda" title="Nugegoda">Nugegoda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arcade_Independence_Square" title="Arcade Independence Square">Arcade Independence Square</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weras_Ganga_Park" title="Weras Ganga Park">Weras Ganga Park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Defence_Headquarters_Complex,_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Defence Headquarters Complex, Sri Lanka">Defence Headquarters Complex</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-def2-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> In 2011, the Ministry of Defense was renamed to the Ministry of Defense and Urban Development, having absorbed responsibilities related to urban development.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> Results of his work were remarkable as Colombo became to the top of the list of fast developing cities in the world in 2015 by an annual travel study by MasterCard.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assassination_attempt">Assassination attempt</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Assassination attempt">edit</a>]</div> On 1 December 2006, at approximately 10:35 an assassin attempted to drive an explosive-laden <a href="/wiki/Auto_rickshaw" title="Auto rickshaw">auto-rikshaw</a> into Rajapaksa's motorcade as it traveled through <a href="/wiki/Kollupitiya" title="Kollupitiya">Kollupitiya</a>, Colombo. The <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Army_Commando_Regiment" title="Sri Lanka Army Commando Regiment">Sri Lanka Army Commandos</a> guarding him obstructed the vehicle carrying the explosives before it reached Rajapakse's vehicle and two commandos were instantly killed. Rajapaksa escaped unhurt.<a href="#cite_note-reuters.com-25">[25]</a> The LTTE were blamed for the attack.<a href="#cite_note-reuters.com-25">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Karuna_defection">Karuna defection</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Karuna defection">edit</a>]</div> Gotabaya is credited with using the <a href="/wiki/Karuna_faction" class="mw-redirect" title="Karuna faction">Karuna faction</a> effectively during the war to defeat the LTTE.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The former <a href="/wiki/LTTE" class="mw-redirect" title="LTTE">LTTE</a> commander Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, better known as <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Karuna" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonel Karuna">Colonel Karuna</a>, told British authorities that Rajapaksa was instrumental in arranging for him to be issued with a false diplomatic passport so that he could flee to Britain in September 2007. These allegations were denied by the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Rohitha_Bogollagama" title="Rohitha Bogollagama">Rohitha Bogollagama</a> at the time,<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> and later by Rajapaksa. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Criticism_of_the_United_Nations_and_western_countries">Criticism of the United Nations and western countries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Criticism of the United Nations and western countries">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka,_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._(11969098865).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka%2C_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._%2811969098865%29.jpg/220px-Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka%2C_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._%2811969098865%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka%2C_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._%2811969098865%29.jpg/330px-Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka%2C_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._%2811969098865%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka%2C_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._%2811969098865%29.jpg/440px-Honras_militares_ao_secret%C3%A1rio_de_Defesa_e_Desenvolvimento_Urbano_do_Sri_Lanka%2C_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa._%2811969098865%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2784" data-file-height="1848" /></a><figcaption>Gotabaya Rajapaksa during an official tour of Brazil</figcaption></figure> In June 2007, Rajapaksa was severely critical of the United Nations (UN) and of western governments. He accused the UN of having been infiltrated by terrorists "for 30 years or so", and as a result the UN was fed incorrect information. He also alleged that Britain and the EU were bullying Sri Lanka, and concluded that Sri Lanka "does not need them", and that they don't provide any significant amount of aid to the country.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> Critics pointed out that in 1990 his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa was caught attempting to bring evidence of human rights violations in Sri Lanka to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the evidence was confiscated by the government during which Rajapaksa justified foreign intervention in Sri Lankan affairs. Mahinda Rajapaksa had also demanded western nations to limit and put conditions on foreign aid to Sri Lanka.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legal_dispute_with_Lasantha_Wickrematunge">Legal dispute with Lasantha Wickrematunge</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legal dispute with Lasantha Wickrematunge">edit</a>]</div> In August 2007, <a href="/wiki/Lasantha_Wickrematunge" title="Lasantha Wickrematunge">Lasantha Wickrematunge</a> published an exposé on a military contract for <a href="/wiki/MiG" class="mw-redirect" title="MiG">MiG</a> aircraft.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> involving the "duplicitous" purchase of the <a href="/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-27" title="Mikoyan MiG-27">Mikoyan MiG-27</a> <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukrainian</a> <a href="/wiki/Fighter_Aircraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Fighter Aircraft">Fighter Aircraft</a> between Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his cousin <a href="/wiki/Udayanga_Weeratunga" title="Udayanga Weeratunga">Udayanga Weeratunga</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Air_Force" title="Sri Lanka Air Force">Sri Lanka Air Force</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> On 18 October 2007, attorney-at-law <a href="/wiki/Ali_Sabry_(Sri_Lankan_politician)" title="Ali Sabry (Sri Lankan politician)">Ali Sabry (Sri Lankan politician)</a> and lawyers representing Rajapaksa wrote to Wickrematunge threatening to sue him for defamation for Rs. 2 billion (€14 million) in damages.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> On 22 February 2008, Rajapaksa filed a lawsuit for defamation against Wickrematunge <a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leader_Publications" title="Leader Publications">Leader Publications</a>, charging that the allegations made by Wickrematunge against Rajapaksa were defamatory. Rajapaksa asserted that his role of <a href="/wiki/Defence_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Defence Secretary">Defence Secretary</a> "had been adversely affected due to Wickrematunge, creating adverse consequences to the war against the rebels in the battlefield."<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> On 5 December 2008, a judge ordered Leader Publications not to publish any reports about Gotabaya Rajapaksa, for two weeks.<a href="#cite_note-rsf121208-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-tamilnet.com-36">[36]</a> Several weeks later, Wickrematunge was assassinated days before he was to testify and give evidence in court regarding the MiG deal.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Wickrematunge's daughter has publicly held Rajapaksa responsible for the assassination.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alleged_human_rights_violations">Alleged human rights violations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Alleged human rights violations">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_(November_28-30,_2019).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_%28November_28-30%2C_2019%29.jpg/220px-State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_%28November_28-30%2C_2019%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_%28November_28-30%2C_2019%29.jpg/330px-State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_%28November_28-30%2C_2019%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_%28November_28-30%2C_2019%29.jpg/440px-State_visit_of_President_HE_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_to_India_%28November_28-30%2C_2019%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2357" data-file-height="1892" /></a><figcaption>President Rajapaksa meets with Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> during a state visit to India</figcaption></figure> On 3 February 2009, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa stated to the international media (in reference to the only hospital in the war front being shelled), that everything was a legitimate target if they were not within the government designated No Fire Zone and that all persons subject to attack by the armed forces were legitimate LTTE targets as there were no independent observers, only LTTE sympathisers.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> General <a href="/wiki/Sarath_Fonseka" title="Sarath Fonseka">Sarath Fonseka</a> who led the war against LTTE had accused Rajapaksa of ordering at the end of the war the shooting of any LTTE leaders who might try to surrender under flags of truce.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] Rajapaksa is alleged to have threatened to execute Fonseka if he revealed any war secrets.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> In an interview on the Sri Lanka TV channel Ada Derana on 16 March 2015, Rajapaksa stated that he was a citizen of the United States but couldn't travel to the United States because of alleged war crimes charges against him.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> Rajapaksa however visited the United States in 2016 and two Tamil groups urged the United States government to arrest and prosecute him.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Sri Lankan government rejected the call to arrest Rajapaksa by Tamil groups.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> As reported by <a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Leader" title="The Sunday Leader">The Sunday Leader</a>, Major General Prasad Samarasinghe, the former military spokesman and director of the Directorate of Media in the army, has been passing highly sensitive information to the US Embassy in Colombo on abductions. Many of those abducted were believed to have been individuals who had fallen foul of the Rajapaksa trio, Mahinda, Basil and Gotabaya. During her visit to the country, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Navanetham_Pillay" class="mw-redirect" title="Navanetham Pillay">Navanetham Pillay</a> expressed her disappointment over "white van" related disappearances reported in Colombo and other parts of the country, which were not covered by the Commission of Inquiry on Disappearances set up by the government.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> Investigations on the 2008 abduction of journalist <a href="/wiki/Keith_Noyahr" title="Keith Noyahr">Keith Noyahr</a> resulted in a White Van being discovered in 2017 March from a house at Piliyandala with connections to an Army Major that was believed to have been used for the abduction. Police believes that the van may have been used for other crimes as well as being part of the operation to murder Lasantha Wickrematunge.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> A few weeks after the Noyahr abduction in 2008, Namal Perera, a course coordinator at the Sri Lanka College of Journalism, was violently attacked by a gang that came in the same White Van with a fake number plate and attempted to abduct him after attacking his car but was foiled by residents and heavy traffic. Namal Perera identified two of his would-be-killers Duminda Weeraratne and Hemachandra Perera in April 2017.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Bandara Bulathwatte, a key suspect in the murder of Lasantha, was given a diplomatic post in Thailand at the request of Gotabaya Rajapaksa near the 2010 presidential election. The letter sent by Gotabaya was prepared in haste and even the biodata of Bulathwatte was not attached despite it being a requirement for him to get his visa and have the appointment regularised by the Foreign Ministry. But after the elections, Rajapaska requested his departure to be postponed, claiming an urgent matter regarding national security. Technical evidence and telephone records have placed Bulathwatte at the location where Lasantha was killed and in the places where other journalists were attacked.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> Investigations on assassinations, abductions and assaults on journalist after the fall of the Rajapaksa government revealed that Gotabaya directed a <a href="/wiki/Death_squad" title="Death squad">death squad</a> to attack journalists that was outside the Army command structure. During this time 17 journalists and media workers were killed and others were either assaulted or abducted.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> <a href="/wiki/Nadarajah_Raviraj" title="Nadarajah Raviraj">Nadarajah Raviraj</a>, a well-known human rights lawyer and a parliamentarian, was shot and killed in <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a> on 10 November 2006. At a magisterial hearing in Colombo on 26 February 2016, Liyanarachchi Abeyrathna, a former police officer attached to the State Intelligence Agency, stated that Gotabaya Rajapaksa paid Rs.50 million to an organisation led by <a href="/wiki/Karuna_Amman" title="Karuna Amman">Karuna Amman</a> to murder Raviraj.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> On 10 January 2023, Gotabaya and his brother and former president <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> were sanctioned by <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> for "gross and systematic violations of human rights" during the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war" title="Sri Lankan civil war">Sri Lankan civil war</a>. In an exceedingly rare move, the former heads of state have been barred from entering the western country.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationship_with_the_media">Relationship with the media</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Relationship with the media">edit</a>]</div> Rajapaksa has been accused of threatening journalists on several occasions, including telling two journalists attached to the state-owned Lake House Publications that unless they stop criticising the armed forces "what will happen to you is beyond my control". When asked by the two journalists if he was threatening them, he replied "I am definitely not threatening your lives. Our services are appreciated by 99 per cent of the people. They love the Army Commander (General <a href="/wiki/Sarath_Fonseka" title="Sarath Fonseka">Sarath Fonseka</a>) and the Army. There are Sri Lankan patriots who love us do and will do what is required if necessary."<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> In April 2007 he was accused of allegedly calling the editor of the <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Mirror_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)">Daily Mirror</a> Champika Liyanaarachchi and threatening her, saying that she would escape reprisals only if she resigned.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> He was also accused of threatening to "exterminate" the Daily Mirror journalist Uditha Jayasinghe for writing articles about the plight of civilian war casualties.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> A 5 December 2008 story from <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> quoted his news reporting position as "he insists that journalists should not be allowed to report anything that demoralises the war effort".<a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-66">[66]</a> In an editorial titled "A brother out of control" (16 August 2011), <a href="/wiki/The_Hindu" title="The Hindu">The Hindu</a> raised the observation, "President Rajapaksa would be well advised to distance himself swiftly from his brother's stream-of-consciousness on sensitive issues that are not his business. This includes an outrageous comment that because a Tamil woman, an "LTTE cadre" who was a British national, interviewed in the Channel 4 documentary was "so attractive" but had been neither raped nor killed by Sri Lankan soldiers, the allegation of sexual assault by soldiers could not be true. For this statement alone, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa must be taken to task."<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> In May 2015, The Sunday Leader tendered an unconditional apology to Gotabaya Rajapaksa for a series of articles regarding the purchase of MIG 27 airplanes for the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Air_Force" title="Sri Lanka Air Force">Sri Lanka Air Force</a>.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alleged_corruption">Alleged corruption</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Alleged corruption">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Sripathi_Sooriyarachchi" title="Sripathi Sooriyarachchi">Sripathi Sooriyarachchi</a>, assassinated journalist <a href="/wiki/Lasantha_Wickrematunge" title="Lasantha Wickrematunge">Lasantha Wickrematunge</a> and others had accused Rajapaksa of corruption since 2006.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> In 2015 <a href="/wiki/Interpol" title="Interpol">Interpol</a> provided further evidence to the Sri Lankan government on corrupt military procurements.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> In March 2015, a Sri Lankan court imposed a travel ban on Rajapaksa over allegations he used a commercial <a href="/wiki/Floating_armory" class="mw-redirect" title="Floating armory">floating armory</a> as a private arsenal.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> The travel ban was lifted by the court in December 2016.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera claimed that Gotabaya's son illegally occupied a house rented for a consulate in Los Angeles and caused millions of rupees in losses to the state.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> Rajapaksa rejected the allegations regarding occupying a house rented for a consulate in LA.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is married to Ioma and has one son. Rajapaksa had dual Sri Lankan and US citizenship but had to renounce his US citizenship prior to running for president in 2019. His wife and son retain their US citizenship.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a><a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alleged_assassination_plot">Alleged assassination plot</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Alleged assassination plot">edit</a>]</div> In September 2018 Director of the Anti Corruption Movement revealed a conspiracy to assassinate President <a href="/wiki/Maithripala_Sirisena" title="Maithripala Sirisena">Maithripala Sirisena</a> and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa because the duo are against the drug trade. <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Investigation_Department_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Criminal Investigation Department (Sri Lanka)">CID of Sri Lanka Police</a> investigated the issue.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2019_presidential_campaign">2019 presidential campaign</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 2019 presidential campaign">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 Sri Lankan presidential election</a></div> It was widely speculated and even claimed by several politicians that Gotabaya Rajapaksa would be contesting the 2020 elections. However, this was denied by Rajapaksa but claimed that he will accept if he was offered the candidacy.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> Fuelling speculation even more, Rajapaksa appointed a communications strategist and activist, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Milinda_Rajapaksha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milinda Rajapaksha (page does not exist)">Milinda Rajapaksha</a>, as his official media spokesperson in August 2018.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States_lawsuit">United States lawsuit</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: United States lawsuit">edit</a>]</div> In April 2019, <a href="/wiki/Lasantha_Wickrematunge" title="Lasantha Wickrematunge">Lasantha Wickrematunge</a>'s daughter Ahimsa Wickrematunge filed a civil lawsuit against Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the state of California. Wickrematunge's daughter's lawsuit alleged that Rajapaksa was behind his death.<a href="#cite_note-cja.org-88">[88]</a> Rajapaksa, who was visiting the U.S. to renounce his citizenship, was served legal documents outside a <a href="/wiki/Trader_Joe%27s" title="Trader Joe's">Trader Joe's</a> parking lot in <a href="/wiki/Pasadena" class="mw-redirect" title="Pasadena">Pasadena</a>.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> Rajapaksa arrived back to Sri Lanka from the United States<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> and was greeted by his supporters and members of the Buddhist Clergy who came to the <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_International_Airport" title="Bandaranaike International Airport">Bandaranaike International Airport</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> to stand in solidarity with Rajapaksa. Due to the case filed against him, Rajapaksa's ability to renounce his citizenship was stalled. Rajapaksa alleged that the case filed against him by Wickrematunge's daughter was "politically motivated"<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> by the <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> to stop him from contesting the presidential election that year. On 21 October 2019, the United States District Court for the <a href="/wiki/Central_District_of_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Central District of California">Central District of California</a> granted Gotabaya Rajapaksa's motion to dismiss, finding that he was entitled to foreign official immunity for acts undertaken while serving as Secretary of Defense.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> On 27 February 2020, the <a href="/wiki/Ninth_Circuit_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="Ninth Circuit Court">Ninth Circuit Court</a> of Appeals granted Wickrematunge's daughter's request to vacate the District Court's ruling that Rajapaksa is entitled to foreign official immunity for acts committed while he was Secretary of Defense of Sri Lanka. The Ninth Circuit granted the request to dismiss the case without prejudice.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> On 11 August 2019, <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a> led by former president <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> announced that Rajapaksa will be their candidate for the <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 presidential election</a>.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> Rajapaksa campaigned on a pro-nationalistic, economic development and national security platform in which he gained 6,924,255 votes, which was 52.25% of the total cased votes and 1,360,016 votes majority over <a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Front_(Sri_Lanka)" title="New Democratic Front (Sri Lanka)">New Democratic Front</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Sajith_Premadasa" title="Sajith Premadasa">Sajith Premadasa</a>. Rajapaksa won a majority in the predominant <a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_people" title="Sinhalese people">Sinhalese</a> areas of the island which included the districts of Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Monaragala, Ratnapura, Badulla, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Gampaha, Kandy, Matale, Polonnaruwa Colombo, Kegalle and Anuradhapura, while Premadasa gained a majority in areas dominated by <a href="/wiki/Tamils" title="Tamils">Tamil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a> minorities, which had been effected by the civil war. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citizenship_row">Citizenship row</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Citizenship row">edit</a>]</div> During the campaign, several political parties including then ruling <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party</a> accused him of having American citizenship and claimed that he stayed and lived in America for more than ten years and revealed that he was not a Sri Lankan citizen. Gotabaya was also pressured to not to contest at the presidential elections because of holding dual citizenship. Further he was alleged to have carried a duplicate Sri Lankan passport with him and court cases were pending against him over the citizenship issue and the issue regarding his passport.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> Former President and the elder brother of Gotabaya, <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> was also accused of using his executive powers to grant his brother, the Sri Lankan citizenship after commencing his first term as president in November 2005. The judge of the Court of Appeal gave verdict on the former's pending court cases on 4 October 2019, dismissed the petition challenging Gotabaya's citizenship.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> He was also allowed to contest at the elections but did not take part in the debate among presidential candidates which was held on 5 October 2019, was also historically Sri Lanka's first-ever debate to have been conducted among presidential candidates for an upcoming election.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> Rajapaksa's name was included in the <a href="/wiki/Quarterly_Publication_of_Individuals_Who_Have_Chosen_to_Expatriate" title="Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate">Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate</a> for Q2 2020.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidency_(2019–2022)">Presidency (2019–2022)</h2>[<a 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title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bribery_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bribery in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)">Bribery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Censorship in Sri Lanka">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Corruption in Sri Lanka">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cronyism_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cronyism in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)"> Cronyism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enforced_disappearances_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Enforced disappearances in Sri Lanka">Enforced disappearances</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Extrajudicial_killings_in_Sri_Lanka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Extrajudicial killings in Sri Lanka (page does not exist)">Extrajudicial killings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fake_news" title="Fake news">Fake news</a></li> <li><a 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title="2019 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka">2019</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Sri_Lankan_constitutional_crisis" title="2018 Sri Lankan constitutional crisis">2018 constitutional crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">2019 Easter bombings</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2019 Sri Lankan presidential election">2019 presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2020 parliamentary election</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/16th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="16th Parliament of Sri Lanka">16th parliament</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93present)" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)">Economic crisis (2019–present)</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Causes</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sri_Lanka" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka">COVID-19 pandemic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93present)#Tax_cuts_and_money_creation" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)">Tax cuts and money creation</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Agricultural_catastrophe">Agricultural catastrophe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sri_Lankan_foreign_exchange_crisis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sri Lankan foreign exchange crisis (page does not exist)">Foreign exchange crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a></li> <li><a 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class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Opponents & demands</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Opponents</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rajapaksa_family" title="Rajapaksa family">Rajapaksa family</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">SLPP</a> politicians</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a> & <a href="/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">UNP</a> politicians</li></ul> <ul><li>Demands</li></ul> 1. Resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa 2. Accountability for corruption 3. Economic reforms 4. Access to essential services 5. Political reforms 6. Youth participation </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Protests</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Occupy_Galle_Face" class="mw-redirect" title="Occupy Galle Face">Occupy Galle Face</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gotagogama" class="mw-redirect" title="Gotagogama">Gotagogama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Mynagogama" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Mynagogama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Black_Monday_attacks_on_protesters" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Black Monday attacks on protesters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Resignation_of_Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#9_July:_Storming_of_President's_House" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Storming of President's House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exile_of_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Flight & Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests#Departures_to_foreign_states" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">Flight of Rajapaksa family and associates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#Crackdown_on_anti-government_protests" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Crackdown on protests</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Government overthrow</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/16th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="16th Parliament of Sri Lanka">16th Parliament</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Presidency_(2019–2022)">Rajapaksa Administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="First Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">Rajapaksa cabinet I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Second Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Third Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="Fourth Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">IV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2022 Sri Lankan presidential election">2022 Presidential election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#Presidency_(2022–2024)" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Wickremesinghe Administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wickremesinghe_cabinet" title="Wickremesinghe cabinet">Wickremesinghe cabinet</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Elections of 2024</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_presidential_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan presidential election">2024 Presidential</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Dissanayake_cabinet" title="First Dissanayake cabinet">Dissanayake cabinet</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2024 parliamentary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/17th_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="17th Parliament of Sri Lanka">17th Parliament</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Elpitiya_Pradeshiya_Sabha_election" title="2024 Elpitiya Pradeshiya Sabha election">2024 Elpitiya</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Legacy</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Legacy</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content plainlist" style="text-align:mid"><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_of_the_Aragalaya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art of the Aragalaya (page does not exist)">Art of the Aragalaya</a></li></ul> </div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below hlist" style="border-top:#aaa 1px solid; 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It is the first elected office Rajapaksa has held and he is the first non-career politician and former military officer to serve as president. Following the assumption of the office of president, he announced intentions to form a new government and taking over the portfolio of defence.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> On 19 November 2019, following taking over assumed duties at the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Secretariat_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Presidential Secretariat (Sri Lanka)">Presidential Secretariat</a>, he appointed <a href="/wiki/P._B._Jayasundera" title="P. B. Jayasundera">P. B. Jayasundera</a> as Secretary to the President and <a href="/wiki/Major_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Major General">Major General</a> <a href="/wiki/Kamal_Gunaratne" title="Kamal Gunaratne">Kamal Gunaratne</a> as Secretary of Defence, as well as a new Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> On 20 November, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a> had agreed to resign for Rajapaksa to form a caretaker government until fresh parliamentary elections can be held after the President can constitutionally dissolve parliament in March 2020. On the same day, the presidential secretariat called for all <a href="/wiki/Provincial_Governors_of_Sri_Lanka" class="mw-redirect" title="Provincial Governors of Sri Lanka">provincial governors</a> to tender their resignations.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> On 21 November, he appointed his brother <a href="/wiki/Mahinda_Rajapaksa" title="Mahinda Rajapaksa">Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> as Prime Minister following the resignation of <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a> and the day after appointed a <a href="/wiki/First_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa_cabinet" title="First Gotabaya Rajapaksa cabinet">15-member cabinet</a>.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> Thus, Sri Lanka became only the second nation in the world after <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> to have a combination of brothers taking charge as president and Prime Minister of a country at the same occasion.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> Following the protests calling for his resignation, Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed a new Cabinet to pacify the protests. He took away the power from three of his relatives, ousting two of his brothers and his nephew from the Cabinet. Mahinda Rajapaksa was still the Prime Minister.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="COVID-19_pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: COVID-19 pandemic">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sri_Lanka" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka">COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka</a> started in March 2020. Rajapakse at first refused to <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_lockdowns" title="COVID-19 lockdowns">lock down</a> the country but later decided to impose a <a href="/wiki/Curfew" title="Curfew">curfew</a> when the number of cases began to rise.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a><a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> Rajapaksa dissolved parliament on 2 March. The election was initially put on by Rajapakse on 25 April 2020, was then postponed by the election commission to 20 June 2020.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> His administration is said to have caused the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93Present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–Present)">Sri Lankan economic and food crisis</a> following his policies of tax reduction, money printing, and organic farming. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election">2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" title="2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election">2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election</a></div> General Election was held on 5 August 2020. <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Podujana_Peramuna" title="Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna">Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna</a> (SLPP) was able to secure a landslide victory in the election claiming the majority winning 145 seats out of 225 seats. The main opposition party <a href="/wiki/Samagi_Jana_Balawegaya" title="Samagi Jana Balawegaya">Samagi Jana Balawegaya</a> won just 54 seats. SLPP victory is mainly owing to the predominant success in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic and due to the negative publicity about the UNP-led government, which was accused of a major intelligence failure triggered by the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">2019 Easter attacks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environmental_Policy_and_Deforestation">Environmental Policy and Deforestation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Environmental Policy and Deforestation">edit</a>]</div> The Sri Lankan government under President Gotabaya transferred the administration of non-protected forests, known as "other state forests" (OSF), to regional authorities, in a controversial circular,<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> with a view to releasing them for agriculture and development. The move was claimed to be a part of government efforts to boost domestic food production, but has been criticized by environmental activists as government-backed deforestation and implied permission-granting for unregulated logging concessions in high biodiversity areas.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agricultural_catastrophe">Agricultural catastrophe</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Agricultural catastrophe">edit</a>]</div> In April 2021, Rajapaksa "declared that the entire country would immediately switch to organic farming", yet as of February 2022, still "a majority of farmers say they received no training in organic techniques".<a href="#cite_note-Globe22-122">[122]</a> The 2021 rice harvest failed, leading to a $1.2 billion emergency food aid program, a $200 million income-support program, and "huge sums to import hundreds of thousands of tons of rice".<a href="#cite_note-Globe22-122">[122]</a> Rajapaksa's "sudden and disastrous turn toward organic farming" was panned in international media and the policies were scaled back before the year was over.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> By April 2022, the government had reversed its decision and was seeking a US$700 million loan from the World Bank to revive the agricultural sector by providing it with imported agrochemicals following a massive drop production in the "Maha" season.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Economic_crisis_and_downfall">Economic crisis and downfall</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Economic crisis and downfall">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93present)" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)">Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present)</a> and <a href="/wiki/2022_Sri_Lankan_protests" title="2022 Sri Lankan protests">2022 Sri Lankan protests</a></div> Rajapaksa administration introduced massive tax cuts in late 2019,<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> which lead to a drop in government revenue that was soon compounded with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the island nation losing its lucrative US$3 billion tourism industry that put 200,000 out of work in 2020 and most of 2021. Although the export sector picked up by 2021 and tourism started picking up, it appeared that Sri Lanka was facing its most severe <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_economic_crisis_(2019%E2%80%93Present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–Present)">economic crisis</a> since its independence in 1948 due to the loss of revenue from tax cuts, rampant money printing and unsustainable borrowings. By end of 2021, Sri Lanka was facing a <a href="/wiki/Debt_crisis" title="Debt crisis">debt crisis</a> with a possibility of <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_default" title="Sovereign default">sovereign default</a>. In early 2022, the Rajapaksa administration avoided debt restructuring opposing an <a href="/wiki/IMF" class="mw-redirect" title="IMF">IMF</a> bailout in favour of a homegrown solution for the debt crisis. This strategy depleted foreign currency reserves and gold reserves in an effort to bolster the Sri Lankan Rupee and repayment of sovereign bonds, the central bank free floated of the currency in early March which saw a 30% depreciation of the Rupee against the dollar in days following major shortages of fuel, food and medicine.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a><a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> According to a poll conducted by <a href="/wiki/Verit%C3%A9_Research" title="Verité Research">Verité Research</a> in March 2022 the government's approval rating had fallen to just 10% as a result of the crisis.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> The Rajapaksa administration reached out the IMF in March as public protests increased in the face of shortages of electricity, fuel, cooking gas, medicine and food, with an IMF report published in late March reported that Sri Lanka was facing an solvency problem with unsustainable debt.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> The administration has been heavily leaning on friendly countries such as China and India for cash swaps, credit lines and loans to import essentials and debt service, in turn facing accusations of making strategic concessions to these countries.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> Following severe shortages of fuel, the state owned <a href="/wiki/Ceylon_Electricity_Board" title="Ceylon Electricity Board">Ceylon Electricity Board</a> was forced to implement 10–13 hour power cuts across the island in late March. This triggered popular protests in parts of the island and on the night of 31 March, protesters charged at Rajapaksa's private residence in Mirihana which turned violent, resulting in the police dispersing the crowds and declaring a curfew until dawn.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> On 3 April, the entire cabinet of ministers resigned and Rajapaksa offered to form a national government with the other political parties in parliament, which was turned down. On 18 April, Rajapaksa appointed 17 new cabinet members, selected among his party members. This move was seen as a sign of Rajapaksa's lack of willingness to listen and adhere to the protesters' demands.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resignation_and_exile">Resignation and exile</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Resignation and exile">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Exile_of_Gotabaya_Rajapaksa" title="Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa">Exile of Gotabaya Rajapaksa</a></div> On 9 July 2022, Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo prior to protesters breaking through police barricades and entering the premises.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> Protesters were seen occupying the mansion, even swimming in the president's pool.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> Later that evening the <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka">Speaker of the Parliament</a> confirmed that the president would resign his office on 13 July 2022.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> On 11 July, the Prime Minister's Office also reconfirmed it.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> On 9 and 10 July, Rajapaksa's whereabouts were unknown to the public until Sri Lankan military sources told the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> on 11 July that the President was on a Navy vessel in Sri Lankan waters.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> Later that day, the Speaker of the Parliament announced that the President was still in the country.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> It was later revealed that Rajapaksa and his wife were evacuated from the President's House on the morning of 9 July by the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Navy" title="Sri Lanka Navy">Sri Lanka Navy</a> and had boarded <a href="/wiki/SLNS_Gajabahu" title="SLNS Gajabahu">SLNS Gajabahu</a> which then departed <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Colombo" title="Port of Colombo">Colombo harbour</a> and sailed within Sri Lankan territorial waters allowing Rajapaksa to maintain communications while being safely out of reach of the protesters.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> On 12 July, it was reported that Rajapaksa was blocked from leaving the country by immigration staff at <a href="/wiki/Bandaranaike_International_Airport" title="Bandaranaike International Airport">Bandaranaike International Airport</a><a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> and his visa request for United States was rejected.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> In the morning of 13 July, Rajapaksa left Sri Lanka via an <a href="/wiki/Antonov_An-32" title="Antonov An-32">Antonov An-32</a> military transport aircraft of the <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Air_Force" title="Sri Lanka Air Force">Sri Lanka Air Force</a> to <a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a>.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> There were protests in Maldives upon his arrival.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> While in Maldives, he issued a gazette stating that he is "unable to exercise, perform and discharge the powers, duties and functions of the Office of the President" by reason of his absence from Sri Lanka and appointed <a href="/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe" title="Ranil Wickremesinghe">Ranil Wickremesinghe</a> as acting president under Article 37 (1) of the constitution of Sri Lanka.<a href="#cite_note-ActPrez-150">[150]</a> However, Rajapaksa was yet to officially resign from presidency on 13 July as he had previously announced on 9 July. On 14 July, Rajapaksa left Maldives for <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> via a <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Airlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Saudi Airlines">Saudi Airlines</a> flight.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a><a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> Singapore's <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Singapore)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore)">Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a> said in a statement that Rajapaksa had been allowed entry into Singapore on a private visit, and that he had neither asked for nor been granted any asylum.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a><a href="#cite_note-Auto_2022-155">[155]</a> Later that day, President Rajapaksa sent his resignation letter to the Speaker of the Parliament through email, formally announcing his resignation.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> Rajapaksa would be the first Sri Lankan president to resign in the middle of his term. In his resignation letter which was formally read out at the parliament on 16 July, he had stated: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">"It is my personal belief that I took all possible steps to address this crisis, including inviting parliamentarians to form an all-party or unity government."<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Gotabaya Rajapaksa<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a></cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-presidency">Post-presidency</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Post-presidency">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_Sri_Lanka">Return to Sri Lanka</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Return to Sri Lanka">edit</a>]</div> On 2 September 2022, Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka, ending his 52-day self-imposed exile.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> On his return he was provided with a new official residence and security granted to a former president.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conviction_of_economic_mismanagement">Conviction of economic mismanagement</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Conviction of economic mismanagement">edit</a>]</div> On 14 November 2023, following a case filed by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) and other four activists, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Supreme Court of Sri Lanka">Supreme Court of Sri Lanka</a> found Rajapaksa, his brothers Mahinda and Basil and several other officials guilty of economic mismanagement between 2019 and 2022, stating that the respondents breached the fundamental rights to equal protection of the law in terms of Article 12(1) of the Constitution. While no claim was made for compensation by the petitioners, the court ordered that each petitioner was entitled to a legal cost of Rs.150,000 (USD450) by the respondents.<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Honours and awards">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Decorations_and_medals">Decorations and medals</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Decorations and medals">edit</a>]</div> During his 20 years of military service, Rajapaksa has received medals from three Presidents of Sri Lanka, <a href="/wiki/J.R._Jayewardene" class="mw-redirect" title="J.R. Jayewardene">J.R. Jayewardene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ranasinghe_Premadasa" title="Ranasinghe Premadasa">Ranasinghe Premadasa</a> and <a href="/wiki/D.B._Wijetunga" class="mw-redirect" title="D.B. Wijetunga">D.B. Wijetunga</a>. These include the gallantry medals, <a href="/wiki/Rana_Wickrama_Padakkama" title="Rana Wickrama Padakkama">Rana Wickrama Padakkama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rana_Sura_Padakkama" title="Rana Sura Padakkama">Rana Sura Padakkama</a>, service medals and campaign medals. He received the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal" title="Eastern Humanitarian Operations Medal">Eastern Humanitarian Operations Medal</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal" title="Northern Humanitarian Operations Medal">Northern Humanitarian Operations Medal</a> during his tenure as Defense Secretary.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/File:Rana_wickrama_medal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Rana_wickrama_medal.svg/110px-Rana_wickrama_medal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Rana_wickrama_medal.svg/165px-Rana_wickrama_medal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Rana_wickrama_medal.svg/220px-Rana_wickrama_medal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Rana_sura_medal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Rana_sura_medal.svg/110px-Rana_sura_medal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Rana_sura_medal.svg/165px-Rana_sura_medal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Rana_sura_medal.svg/220px-Rana_sura_medal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg/110px-Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg/165px-Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/File:Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/110px-Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/165px-Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/220px-Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg/110px-Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg/165px-Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg/220px-Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/110px-North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/165px-North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/220px-North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/110px-Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/165px-Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/220px-Vadamarachchi_Operation_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/110px-Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/165px-Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/220px-Sri_Lanka_Armed_Services_Long_Service_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> <a href="/wiki/File:President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg/110px-President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg/165px-President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg/220px-President%27s_Inauguration_Medal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a> </div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Ribbon</th> <th>Name</th> <th>Date awarded </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Rana_wickrama_medal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Rana_wickrama_medal.svg/70px-Rana_wickrama_medal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Rana_wickrama_medal.svg/105px-Rana_wickrama_medal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Rana_wickrama_medal.svg/140px-Rana_wickrama_medal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rana_Wickrama_Padakkama" title="Rana Wickrama Padakkama">Rana Wickrama Padakkama</a> (RWP)</td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF/70px-Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF" decoding="async" width="70" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF/105px-Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF/140px-Rana_Sura_Padakkama_bar.GIF 2x" data-file-width="162" data-file-height="49" /></a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rana_Sura_Padakkama" title="Rana Sura Padakkama">Rana Sura Padakkama</a> (RSP)</td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg/70px-Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg/105px-Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg/140px-Desha_Putra_Sammanaya_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Desha_Putra_Sammanaya" title="Desha Putra Sammanaya">Desha Putra Sammanaya</a></td> <td>1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/70px-Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/105px-Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/140px-Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal" title="Eastern Humanitarian Operations Medal">Eastern Humanitarian Operations Medal</a> (with clasp)</td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/70px-Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/105px-Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/140px-Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northern_Humanitarian_Operations_Medal" title="Northern Humanitarian Operations Medal">Northern Humanitarian Operations Medal</a> (with clasp)</td> <td>2010 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg/70px-Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg/105px-Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg/140px-Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama_ribbon_bar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="279" /></a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Purna_Bhumi_Padakkama" title="Purna Bhumi Padakkama">Purna Bhumi Padakkama</a></td> <td>1984 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/File:North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/70px-North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="70" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg/105px-North_and_East_Operations_Medal_ribbon_bar.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environmental_awards">Environmental awards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Environmental awards">edit</a>]</div> In July 2020, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Zero_carbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Zero carbon">Zero carbon</a> certificate for conducting his election campaign representing SLPP in eco-friendly manner.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> His election campaign became the first zero carbon election campaign in the world.<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eelam_War_IV" title="Eelam War IV">Eelam War IV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_attacks_attributed_to_the_LTTE" title="List of attacks attributed to the LTTE">List of attacks attributed to the LTTE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_attacks_on_civilians_attributed_to_Sri_Lankan_government_forces" title="List of attacks on civilians attributed to Sri Lankan government forces">List of attacks on civilians attributed to the Sri Lankan government forces</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_families_in_Sri_Lanka" title="List of political families in Sri Lanka">List of political families in Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lankan_non-career_Permanent_Secretaries" title="List of Sri Lankan non-career Permanent Secretaries">List of Sri Lankan non-career Permanent Secretaries</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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Sri Lanka Army: 50 Years On, 1949–1999, Colombo: <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Army" title="Sri Lanka Army">Sri Lanka Army</a>. 932 p., <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/955-8089-02-8" title="Special:BookSources/955-8089-02-8">955-8089-02-8</a></li> <li>The Broken Palmyra – The Tamil Crisis in Sri Lanka: An Inside Account. The Sri Lanka Studies Institute, <a href="/wiki/Claremont,_CA" class="mw-redirect" title="Claremont, CA">Claremont, CA</a>, 1990. By <a href="/wiki/Rajan_Hoole" title="Rajan Hoole">Hoole, R.</a>, Somasundaram, D., Sritharan K., and <a href="/wiki/Rajini_Thiranagama" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajini Thiranagama">Rajini Thiranagama</a>. (Also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uthr.org/BP/Content.htm">available online</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tamilnation.co/books/Eelam/hoole.htm">Note from the publishers & book review</a>)</li> <li>War and Peace in Sri Lanka: With a Post-Accord Report From Jaffna. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/955-26-0001-4" title="Special:BookSources/955-26-0001-4">955-26-0001-4</a>/<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-955-26-0001-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-955-26-0001-2">978-955-26-0001-2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Fundamental_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Institute of Fundamental Studies">Institute of Fundamental Studies</a>, Sri Lanka; 1 edition (1 October 1987), By <a href="/wiki/Rohan_Gunaratna" title="Rohan Gunaratna">Rohan Gunaratna</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Gotabaya_Rajapaksa&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/40px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="33" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/60px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg/80px-Wikiversity_logo_2017.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="626" data-file-height="512" /></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiversity has learning resources about <a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Gota_Go_Home!_The_Downfall_of_Sri_Lanka%27s_War_Hero" class="extiw" title="v:Gota Go Home! 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