Mehdi Hasan discusses Ranil WickreseSinghe in Sri Lanka about his Presidency, Easter bombing and civil war.
When President Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajaks fled the country in 2022 in the midst of mass protests and economic crises, Parliament chose a veteran politician and sixfold Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as a replacement.
As president, Wickremesinghe neglected the greatest rescue in the country, but his critics say that part of the institution that closed his eyes to war crimes and corruption and interfered with the fundamental changes that protesters sought.
Mehdi Hasan goes Head toward your head With Wickremesinghe, on his violent response to protests, handling the Easter bombing of 2019, and did he do enough for the powerful family of Rajaksa to respond.
Association of discussions are:
Frances Harrison – former correspondent BBC Sri Lanka, author of the film Stilking the Dead, and Director of the International Truth Project and Justice project
Nirj Deva – Former Member of UK and EU -ui Presidential Envoy Wickremesinghe
Madura Rasaratnam – Executive Director, Pearl and Older Lecturer in the City, University of London.
