COLOMBO (Reuters) – The political proxy of the Tamil Tigers unanimously backed on Wednesday the presidential bid of the general who crushed the separatists in May, saying it was the only way to thwart incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa’s re-election. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), a group of ethnic Tamil parties that took orders from the Liberation [...]
By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala The former Sri Lankan army commander now competing for the presidency, Gen Sarath Fonseka, has pledged to grant an amnesty to all former militants. Gen Fonseka has submitted a proposal named “Immediate Relief Measures for War Affected Persons,” to the leader of the Tamil National Alliance party. He is eager [...]
Sri Lanka’s former army chief and the Opposition’s presidential candidate, Sarath Fonseka, on Saturday took his campaign to the Tamil heartland of Jaffna. Fonseka, the main opponent of incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the January 26 polls, visited a Hindu temple, besides addressing a rally along with former Prime Minister Ranil Wickeremesinghe. Fonseka also met [...]
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 [...]
My aim is to establish democracy and create a parliament that is accountable to the people, says common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka. He was addressing a propaganda rally held in Digana, Kandy on Sunday to pledge support to him, where several political party representatives were present. “I once had a dream to win this [...]
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 government on Sunday denied claims by a former army chief, who has turned presidential poll candidate, that orders had gone out not to spare rebel leaders who were willing to surrender during the final phase of the civil war which ended in May. The final phase of the bloody war, which killed [...]
Sri Lankan forces eliminated surrendering Tiger leaders on the orders of the defence secretary who had instructed that “all LTTE leaders must be killed”, ex-army chief Gen Sarath Fonseka has claimed, prompting the government to describe it as a “great betrayal”. In an explosive interview to The Sunday Leader, Gen Fonseka, opposition Presidential candidate, said [...]
Sri Lanka’s former army chief has accused the president of corruption, nepotism and abuse of power ahead of next month’s election. General Sarath Fonseka’s comments on Friday came a month after he resigned from the military, accusing the government of sidelining him after victory in the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on suspicion that [...]
Sri Lanka’s former military chief who led troops to victory over Tamil separatists in May said he fears fugitive rebels will try to assassinate him during his presidential election campaign. Sarath Fonseka, who is trying to unseat President Mahinda Rajapakse in the January 26 elections, said that about 1,000 Tamil Tiger fighters may have survived [...]
The candidacy of General Sarath Fonseka in the January 26 presidential elections in Sri Lanka is a sharp warning to the working class of the advanced preparations for police-state rule on the island. Amid a deepening economic crisis, powerful sections of the ruling elite are backing Fonseka, the common candidate of the main opposition parties, [...]
The Presidential election of 2010 is off to a fairly nasty start. Its main feature to date has been the opposition candidate General (retired) Sarath Fonseka, going to the Supreme Court regarding his security and retirement arrangements and calling the incumbent president a ‘tin pot dictator’ for good measure.In similar vein the President has not [...]
Gen Sarath Fonseka, former army commander and the joint Opposition candidate in the coming Sri Lankan Presidential election, has said that one of the reasons why President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa fell out with him was his refusal to order artillery shells worth $ 300 million after the war against the LTTE [...]
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