During the final stages of the war president Mahinda and defense secretary Gotagbhaya fled the c...
The common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena has added in a meeting at Elpitiya that in the final days before the war ended the president Mahinda Rajapaksa and defense secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had fled the country in fear.The war was conducted then by him and general Sarath Fonseka.