The Office of the Special Task Force (STF) Commandant has distributed a leaflet on December 9, 2009 calling on all STF personnel to vote for President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the forthcoming presidential election. Commanding Officer of the STF on December 11, 2009 had ordered the Senior Superintendent of Police (Personnel) to send a copy of [...]
General Sarath Fonseka has issued a challenge to President Mahinda Rajapakse for an open debate on the allegations raised on purchasing of arms during the war. The challenge has been conveyed by the spokesmen for the Gereral, MP Anura Dissanayake and Mangala Samaraweera today. The General’s challenge comes in the wake of the accusations made [...]
Sarath Fonseka’s candidature in the upcoming presidential elections might be a setback for the Rajapakse dynastic project. But the general’s Sinhala supremacy agenda cannot calm the minorities. Sri Lanka’s election season commenced with a thunderbolt, a development unthinkable in those heady days six months ago, when the demise of the Tamil Tigers was celebrated with [...]
Anti-graft campaign group Transparency International accused Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday of using state property and public cash to illegally finance his re-election bid. The Sri Lanka branch of the Berlin-based watchdog said armed forces, police and public servants were being deployed to campaign for the ruling party in the January 26 vote. [...]
President Mahinda Rajapakse says a pension will be given to employees of all corporations under the new government that will be established on 27th of next month. The president added measures will also be taken to create an environment where every citizen of the country could live without fear. The corruption will also be eliminated. [...]
Nominations to run in Sri Lanka’s presidential election have closed, with a record 22 candidates registering to run in next month’s elections. Thursday marked the deadline for registration to run in the presidential poll, in which economic policies may now take centre stage rather than the battle against the Tamil Tigers. Despite the large number of candidates, the battle will be between Mahinda [...]
Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada have called for an international trial of the Sri Lankan President for allegedly ordering the killing of surrendering LTTE leaders during the ethnic war that ended in May. Former Sri Lankan army chief and Opposition presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka has alleged that Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered troops to kill [...]
The Sri Lankan opposition, fuelling the Presidential ambitions of the former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka against the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa, suffered a setback on Monday afternoon as one of the senior members from its side broke ranks and announced not only all help to Mr. Rajapaksa but also joined the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom [...]
Colombo: An early presidential poll in Sri Lanka is premised on the assumption that besides giving Mahinda Rajapaksa a firmer grip over his party, he could help the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) secure a clear majority in the parliamentary polls due by April. Followers of Mr. Rajapaksa believe that having militarily defeated the LTTE, [...]
The leader of the newly-floated 18-party United National Front (UNF), Ranil Wickremesinghe, has said that the nomination of the just retired General Sarath Fonseka as a consensus Presidential candidate of the alliance to take on the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is conditional. The retired General, who led the war against the LTTE and sought [...]
The newly-floated United National Front (UNF), led by the former Sri Lanka Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, challenged Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday to go ahead with his planned early presidential poll if he was confident of his popularity. Hours ahead of a Cabinet meeting Presided by Mr. Rajapaksa which agreed on the dates for the presidential [...]
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday postponed the expected announcement of dates for early presidential and parliamentary elections due by April without giving a reason. The delay followed the resignation on Friday of the chief of defence staff, General Sarath Fonseka, who is expected to stand against his former commander-in-chief as an opposition candidate. [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint an expert committee within one week to verify the facts behind the allegations against the Sri Lanka Government in the report submitted by the US State Department to the US Congress on incidents during the recent conflict in Sri Lanka, Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe [...]
For President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the daily schedule in the past days has been punishing. He dashed from town to town, village to village in an Air Force VIP helicopter. His ministers and UPFA stalwarts assigned specific sectors for yesterday’s Southern Provincial elections, were all on the ground and busy. A victory for the UPFA was [...]
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