Geopolitics
The Unsealed Door: Sri Lanka's Reckoning with its Shadow State
A renewed investigation into Sri Lanka's 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, now targeting the intelligence apparatus under the new NPP government, suggests the original failures may have been more than mere negligence. The shocking arrest of a decorated intelligence chief signals a potential moment of reckoning for a wartime security state that has long operated in the shadows, risking national security for political power.
