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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Even before the coordinated bombings that killed 250 people last month, Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister were in trouble — largely of their own making.Now calls for President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to step aside when their terms are over, if not before, are mounting from opposition groups as well as from the ranks of their own parties.via: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/21/world/asia/sri-lanka-politics.html?fbclid=IwAR1tSykNA5Qosyo2xfz1e5Rt1GDSqWr3T7XZI_DFRAIgJ5a0KqA8Dkt999U