The island nation's new president Anura Dissanayake heralded a 'new era of renaissance' as he was sworn in on Monday. Here is how the Sri Lankan diaspora are responding.
Sri Lanka n Australians Cammy Joseph and Kaveen Athuraliya weigh in on Sri Lanka 's new president. Anura Kumara Dissanayake , whose party only holds three parliamentary seats, received 42 per cent of the vote in Sri Lanka on Saturday.
On Tuesday, he appointed academic and first-time MP Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister — making her the third woman to be appointed to the post. The motive for both uprisings, which killed thousands, was to establish a Marxist-Leninist socialist state.Mr Dissanayake at a protest rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka in February 2023.But Kaveen Athuraliya, a 24-year-old postgraduate student from Sri Lanka who lives in Melbourne, said Mr Dissanayake's Marxist label was not so black and white.
Appealing to the nation's Buddhist-Sinhalese majority, Mahinda led Sri Lanka into a victory over ethnic Tamil rebels in 2009 —He and his younger brother Gotabaya, formerly a powerful strategist in the defence ministry, have denied widespread allegations of atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan military during the war.
Sri Lankan Australians protest against corruption in Sri Lanka's government in Brisbane city in April, 2022."In the last 76 years, under the parties who had governed the country, it wasn't democratic or good governance," said Mr Fernando, who had been a member of the JVP before moving to Australia in 1989.
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