{"id":103882,"date":"2013-09-05T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=103882"},"modified":"2013-09-09T04:25:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T22:55:51","slug":"rajapaksa-calls-bull-shit-on-global-mail-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/rajapaksa-calls-bull-shit-on-global-mail-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajapaksa Calls \u201cBull Shit\u201d On Global Mail Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Eric Ellis<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eric Ellis<\/p><\/div>\n

Last weekend, as a courtesy,\u00a0The Global Mail<\/em>\u00a0emailed Sri Lanka\u2019s unelected Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa a link to our story on the nepotism among Sri Lanka\u2019s powerful elite.<\/p>\n

Gota, as Sri Lankans know him, is the country\u2019s enforcer-in-chief. The former soldier is credited with having masterminded his presidential brother Mahinda\u2019s 2009 victory over Tamil separatists and ending a 26-year civil war that killed more than 100,000 people \u2013 as many as 75,000 in its brutal last weeks.<\/p>\n

He had chosen not to co-operate in our research, but we sent on\u00a0this piece<\/a><\/span>\u00a0anyway, the third in a three-part series\u00a0How Not To Win A War<\/a><\/em><\/span>. The series examines how his tiny island is emerging from that war and why, four years on, so many Sri Lankans, particularly of its minority Tamil community, are risking their lives on leaky boats in the vain hope of starting new lives in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Brothers\u2019 Grip\u2019, in particular, reported how Gota and his triumphant Sinhalese relatives and cronies are getting rich quick as they turn Sri Lanka into their family\u2019s political and business fief, a \u2018mafia state\u2019 as some Sri Lankans even described it.<\/p>\n

Read more in the\u00a0The Globalmail<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

*Eric Ellis<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning journalist who writes about the politics, economics and societies of South and South-East Asia.\u00a0He has written for a range of international journals;\u00a0Fortune Magazine,\u00a0Forbes, the\u00a0Financial Times,\u00a0Time Magazine,\u00a0The Times,\u00a0The Bulletin\/Newsweek,\u00a0The Spectator,Institutional Investor,\u00a0Euromoney,\u00a0The Sydney Morning Herald,\u00a0The Age,\u00a0The Australian Financial Review\u00a0and the\u00a0International Herald Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n

Other stories;<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka: How Not To Win A War<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka: The Smugglers\u2019 Prey<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s Army Of Buddhist Power<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka: The Brothers\u2019 Grip<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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