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World Service,1 min

How a former first family was brought low

The World This Week

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The Rajapaksas once controlled virtually every aspect of life in Sri Lanka. But since they lost the presidency, they and their supporters have found themselves spiralling down. Charles Haviland on their decline and fall. Photo: Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of the former president, is taken away in a prison bus after his arrest on money-laundering charges. Credit: AP

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