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COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
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COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
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COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand
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COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pardons 16 Tamil Tigers members, with government officials saying it is the start of the process to gradually free all individuals who have been charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pardons 16 Tamil Tigers members, with government officials saying that it is the start of a process to gradually free all individuals who have been charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
2020-08-5
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COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka holds parliamentary elections after the parliament was dissolved by president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in March. Originally scheduled to be held in April, the election was postponed twice due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sri Lankan voters head to the polls to elect a new president. Although 35 candidates are running, the main frontrunners are former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa of the right-wing Sri Lanka People's Front and current Minister of Housing and Construction Sajith Premadasa of the centre-right United National Party.
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President
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The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka reverses President Maithripala Sirisena's decisions to dissolve Parliament and to hold snap elections.
2015-01-28
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President
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The President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena reinstates former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake who had been sacked by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
2014-11-20
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President
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The President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa calls an early election.
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President
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Sri Lankan Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake is removed from office by President Mahinda Rajapaksa after being impeached.
2010-06-28
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President
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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse and other prominent Sri Lankans protest international calls and the appointment of a United Nations panel to investigate war crimes allegedly committed during the country's civil war with the Tamil Tiger separatists.
2010-01-24
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Sri Lankan opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka receives the support of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga in the 2010 presidential election.
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Sri Lanka replaces health minister as COVID outbreak worsens
2021
Wanniarachchi, who publicly endorsed sorcery and magic potions to battle the virus, axed as infections and deaths soar.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa replaces his health minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi with Keheliya Rambukwella, who was also the media minister and government spokesman, with the former becoming the transport minister, amid public criticism over understating COVID-19 infections and her endorsement of sorcery and magic potions to battle the virus.