It was President Chandrika and her uncle Ratwatte who have also set an unbeaten record in the endless production of refugees and displaced persons. It was under Chandrika's diabolical regime that the entire city of Jaffna, the second largest city in Ceylon became a ghost-city on October 30, 1995. Once again I was both a victim and a witness to this unimaginable tragedy. You name a President who created half a million refugees in one single week as an agent of democratic development. In the post-colonial history of the island of Ceylon, it was under Chandrika's regime that the largest number of Sinhala military personnel are deployed in the Tamil homelands especially in Jaffna, Batticaloa and Vanni.
Nothing can be a more glaring example of military subjugation and repression.
It is after Chandrika assumed power that the largest number of Tamil civilians suffered arrest, torture, detention, merciless interrogation or held in custody without any judicial process etc. You seem to consider this humiliation of a community as a sign of development. With the exclusion of the anti-Tamil pogrom of 1983, if you count the largest number of Tamil civilians killed during the term of each President, it is under Chandrika's regime that more than 13,000 Tamils have died. The other fact is that the largest number of Sinhala military personnel also died in the war under her absurd governance. The most cruel form of economic and medical embargo has been rigorously imposed by the government of President Chandrika on a hapless and helpless population especially in Vanni and you wish to promote this form of development as the most ideal one in South Asia.