Luck runs out for Sri Lanka's Lord of the Rings

Rajapakse comes from a well-connected political family in the southern district of Hambantota. His father, D.A. Rajapakse, was a prominent independence activist and cabinet minister. The younger Rajapakse studied law but at 24 -- before he had even qualified as an attorney -- he became an MP.

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