Sri Lanka's new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is a war hero and polarising figure

Rajapaksa is the younger brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, and the two nationalists gave the military a free hand to crush the Tamil separatists and end a 26-year civil war that had left more than 100,000 people dead.

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