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‘The Fear Is Coming Back’ as Political Crisis Brings Sri Lanka to Brink

FILE -- President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka in his office in Colombo, May 4, 2016. Sirisena was elected in 2015 on promises to investigate his predecessor and undo deals with China. Now he has become an agent of the attempted comeback of the man he replaced, Mahinda Rajapaksa. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)