On May 10 2022 the International Truth and Justice project released its report on the mass atrocities committed in 1989 by Sri Lanka's deposed strongman Gotabaya Rajapasa.
At the height of antigovernment protests in Sri Lanka in April 2022, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa repeatedly invoked past mass atrocities as a reason for demonstrators to stand down the 43 page report said.