Gotabaya Rajapaksa

President of Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022

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Sri Lankan ex-president who governed 2019–22 before resigning amid economic collapse and mass protests. Previously shaped the final phase of the country's civil war as defence secretary under his brother's presidency.

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Lieutenant colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a Sri Lankan former politician and retired military officer who served as the eighth president of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his resignation on 14 July 2022. Before his presidency, he served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 during the regime of his brother, president Mahinda Rajapaksa, playing a central role in the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war.

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