The Raja Puks and the Government of Sri Lanka

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Up until this week, the raja puke family essentially had a choke hold on the entire strilankan government. The prime minister was actually compelled to resign after pressure from protesters. Now there are talks under way to form a new interim government. We're going to explain who the raja puks are and how they came to run srilanka into the ground. And it won't be a political opponent that defeats them. It'll be fall out from coved 19 during the pandemic.

Sri Lanka’s “Go home, Gota!” protesters want to throw President Gotabaya Rajapaksa out of office. Reveal’s Ike Sriskandarajah explains what could happen if Gota "goes home" to the serene suburbs of Southern California.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Haleema Shah with help from Victoria Dominguez, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.

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