The year 2009 was the highest point in both personal and political lives of Mahinda Rajapaksa. As the first-time President of Sri Lanka, Rajapaksa had destroyed world’s most powerful and ruthless terrorist organisation Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending a 30-year-long bloody civil war. After the end of Tamil Eelam war, the majority Sinhalese Buddhist people comprising 70% of the …