Sri Lanka’s former president, Mahinda Rajapakse, centre, and Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, right, assist in transporting the coffin of former prime minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake during his funeral at the national parliament in Colombo yesterday. Wickremanayake, who served twice as the Island nation’s prime minister, first from 2000 to 2001 and then from 2005 to 2010, died of an unspecified illness on December 27 at the age of 83.