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Is Post-War Sri Lanka Following the 'Military Business Model'?
Under President Mahinda Rajapaksa's rule, Sri Lanka is morphing more and more into a neo-liberal militarised state where the "Milbus" model - that describes the role of the army in Pakistan - is being replicated. This does not portend well for the people of the civil war-ravaged country.
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| Is Post-War Sri Lanka Following | years since the end of the war, emergency rule remains in place and the defence sec |
| the ‘Military Business Model’? | tor, including the budget, has not been downsized, right-sized or restructured for |
| peacetime operations; on the contrary, it | |
| has been on a constant rise. The army is | |
| Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake | composed of over 2,10,000 personnel in a |
Under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s rule, Sri Lanka is morphing more and more into a neo-liberal militarised state where the “Milbus” model – that describes the role of the army in Pakistan – is being replicated. This does not portend well for the people of the civil war-ravaged country.
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