By: Radhakrishna N S
Supporters of Sri Lanka’s fired prime minister and a top election official on Monday (12) challenged in court the president’s sacking of parliament, upping the ante in a political crisis that has sparked international alarm. President Maithripala Sirisena last week called snap elections and dissolved the legislature, two weeks after sacking the prime minister and installing the divisive Mahinda Rajapakse in his place. The United States has led a chorus of international voices expressing concern over events in the strategically important Indian Ocean island nation of 21 million people. Three political parties holding an absolute majority in parliament and an…
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