A Country in Abeyance

IF 2.4 4区历史学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Current History Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1525/curh.2023.122.843.131

N. Wickramasinghe

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Abstract

Amid an economic meltdown in 2022, a nonviolent citizens movement in Sri Lanka ousted Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brothers from a family that had dominated national politics since 2005. But Parliament filled the presidential vacancy with Ranil Wickremesinghe, a six-time former prime minister seen as a proxy for his predecessors. After a draconian crackdown on protesters, the streets have quieted. But the country’s underlying economic and political crisis, which has roots in the early postcolonial period and the civil war, and was worsened by the Rajapaksas’ autocratic misrule, persists. The new administration has avoided the systemic change demanded by protesters.

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一个处于停顿状态的国家

在2022年的经济危机中，斯里兰卡的一场非暴力公民运动罢免了总理拉贾帕克萨(Mahinda Rajapaksa)和总统拉贾帕克萨(Gotabaya Rajapaksa)。这对兄弟来自一个自2005年以来一直主导国家政治的家族。但议会让拉尼尔·维克勒马辛哈(Ranil Wickremesinghe)填补了总统职位空缺。维克勒马辛哈曾六次出任总理，被视为其前任的代理人。在对抗议者进行严厉镇压之后，街道平静了下来。但是，这个国家潜在的经济和政治危机仍然存在，这种危机起源于早期的后殖民时期和内战，并因拉贾帕克萨的专制暴政而恶化。新政府回避了抗议者所要求的系统性改革。

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