Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa recently claimed that 20,000 people who had gone missing during the country's civil war are presumably dead. Rajapaksa made the remark in a meeting with a United Nations envoy in Colombo.

Thousands missing in ethnic civil war are dead: Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa

Mahindra Rajapaksa who took over as prime minister of Sri Lanka said there was a plot to assassinate the president and former defence secretary. The UNP was engaged in a quest to sell off valuable state assets and enterprises to foreign companies, Rajapaksa said in a press release after coming to power.

There was plot to assassinate president, ex-defence secretary: PM Rajapaksa

The decision was announced by a Sri Lankan government minister, said news agency Reuters

Sri Lanka unrest: Social media ban to be lifted by this week

An investigation into anti-Muslim riots that spread in central Sri Lanka prompting the authorities to declare a nationwide state of emergency was announced Saturday by President Maithripala Sirisena

Sri Lanka to probe anti-Muslim riots, lift curfew

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