Rajapaksa’s unexpected defeat by a coalition of Sri Lanka’s democrats and Tamil political parties in last January’s presidential election – a result that he then sought to annul – should have ended both his career and the politics of race-baiting. But the former president is now mounting a furious comeback bid and might well win the parliamentary election scheduled for August 17.
在去年1月的总统选举中，拉贾帕克萨出人意料地败给了斯里兰卡民主派和泰米尔政党所组成的联盟——后来他试图废除这一结果——这并应该结束他的政治生涯和种族迫害政治。但如今，这位前总统正在策划愤怒的逆袭，并有望在8月17日的议会选举中获胜。