President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday warned Parliament that Sri Lanka is now facing a dangerous evolution of organised crime, where drug traffickers, armed criminals, corrupt state officials, political actors and even segments of the media have converged into a single network of influence. The President said that what began decades ago as small village-level thuggery had grown into a powerful, well-financed criminal ecosystem through political protection, contracts, and later, large-scale drug trafficking. He said the political culture of the late 1970s enabled this transformation. “After 1977, every MP had a thug next to him. That is when these individuals obtained…
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