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Sri Lanka presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been a polarizing figure for much of his political life. When he was defense chief in his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government he crushed ethnic Tamil separatist rebels, bringing a 26-year-long civil war to a close. Rajapaksa has denied the accusations.