Giant posters of acting prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa are seen in his home town on November 14, 2018 in Tangalle, Sri Lanka. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Sri Lanka’s newly appointed prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, gestures during a ceremony to assume duties at the prime minister’s office in Colombo on Oct. 29. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)
Sri Lanka army soldiers take up position in the north-eastern region of Weli Oya on March 27, 2008. Sri Lanka has launched a probe into a mystery poster campaign that is asking would-be Tamil Tiger suicide bombers to turn themselves in to government hands in return for cash. Tens of thousands have died since the LTTE launched an armed struggle in 1972, to carve out a separate homeland for minority Tamils from the majority Sinhalese community in the island's north and east. The Tigers are fighting for an independent homeland for minority Tamils from the majority Sinhalese community in the island's north and east. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (R) after taking an oath as he is sworn in as minister of policy planning and economic affairs in front of Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena in Colombo on September 4, 2015. Sri Lanka's President September 4 formed a unity government with 42 ministers, a day after parliament endorsed the move as part of efforts to address ethnic reconciliation after decades of war. Maithripala Sirisena gave a majority of portfolios to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party (UNP) which won the August 17 general elections. AFP PHOTO / Ishara S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)
Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks in Colombo on May 18, 2015 in commemoration of those who died six years ago in battles between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters and government troops at the end of the three decades old separatist conflict. Rajapaksa urged against any separatist wars in the future. The sixth anniversary of the killing of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is being marked in the first anniversary of the event under the new government of President Sirisena. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena arrives at the Observance for Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey on March 9, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (C) and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe (L) offer prayers during a Buddhist ceremony at the Kelaniya temple in Kelaniya on January 17, 2015 (Getty Images)
