The turmoil started on Friday Oct 26,2018 when, in a surprise move, President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with Mahinda Rajapaksa - a former president he had defeated in a 2015 election - in a hurried ceremony in the capital, Colombo.
He insisted he was the lawful prime minister and called for a parliament sitting to prove his majority. Sirisena responded by suspending parliament until November 16, in a move critics said was aimed at shoring up support for Rajapaksa, a popular leader who is credited with ending Sri Lanka's 26-year long civil war, but is also accused of grave human rights abuses and corruption.
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