Sri Lanka’s crisis of legitimacy

Writer: Dushni Weerakoon, IPS Sri Lanka’s slide into political instability since April 2022 culminated in the resignation of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa following public protests on 9 July 2022. The government’s policy blunders and resistance to course correction have been blamed for unleashing the harshest economic disaster on the Sri Lankan inhabitants in current history. The […] The publish Sri Lanka’s disaster of legitimacy first appeared on East Asia Forum.