At this time last year, the only contentious news out
of Sri Lanka was its problems with Chinese debt and how it proposed to handle
the matter. Other than that, the consensus seemed to be that with tourists
returning, things could only get better. The one negative note was struck by
the continuing freefall of the national cricket team. Today it isn’t just the
cricket team that is faltering; the country seems to be falling apart in the
giant shadow of a returning Mahinda Rajapaksa, an out-