`The Terminator`: how Gotabaya Rajapaksa`s ruthless streak led him to power
(WorldNews Asia)

Even his own family nickname him `The Terminator`. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the 70-year-old retired lieutenant colonel who will be Sri Lanka´s next president, has built his reputation on being efficient and ruthless, whether that was in his role in crushing the Tamil separatist movement, which kept Sri Lanka in civil war for 25 years, or through his urban development of the capital Colombo. Born in 1949, Gotabaya Rajapaksa is one of the nine Rajapaksa brothers who have...