Ranil Wickremesinghe
9th President of Sri Lanka from July 2022 to September 2024 · Sri Lanka · On the map · Politicians · Born 1949 · age 77
Ranil Wickremesinghe is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the ninth president of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024. He has also served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 1993-1994, 2001-2004, 2015-2018, 2018-2019 and in 2022.
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It was not clear how many of them were killed by the (Lankan) army or whether the LTTE had moved the people to the war zones which led to the death of some of them.
Interviewer: Prime Minister, it's 6 years, since the war, and there is still no investigation.
Ranil Wickremesinghe: We are putting together the mechanisms of accountability and reconciliation. By me or so, when we had to..
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Wickremesinghe has held several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National Party (UNP) since 1994. He is also the eighth executive president of Sri Lanka, a role established by the 1977 constitutional amendment that expanded presidential powers.
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