The Coronavirus Can’t Curtail Sri Lanka’s Impunity Machine
3 min readMay 3, 2020
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa pardoned Sunil Rathnayake in March. Rathnayake is a convicted war criminal who was on death row. He was convicted of killing eight Tamil civilians, including a five-year-old. Releasing him from prison is outrageous and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.