Sri Lanka violence: How long will the President-PM impasse continue?

The first Sinhala-Muslim riot was reported in 1915, largely because of land issues

Opposition leader and former president of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa (2005-15) must be laughing his head off. Despite all the cases of corruption against him and his family, despite the harassment and the jail terms that members of his family have had to serve, it was he who swept the civic elections in the island last month. The victory has thrown the ruling dispensation lead by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe into a blind panic. So much so that the two are scrapping with each other instead of attacking their common enemy and the result is that