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Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Gotabaya Rajapaksa (born 1949) is a Sri Lankan former army officer and politician who was president of Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2022. As defence secretary under his brother President Mahinda Rajapaksa he directed the final campaign that defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009. His presidency ended in a severe debt and economic crisis, and mass protests forced him to flee the country and resign in July 2022.
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