Seven Soldiers detained for the murder of Lasantha »
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Seven soldiers belonging to the Sri Lanka Army’s Military Intelligence Unit will continue to be detained as investigations continue into [...]
National Lists: the last refuge for the politically displaced? »
THE NATIONALIST PAPERS
by Malinda Seneviratne
In October or November of the year 2001 I wrote a piece in the daily ‘Island’ titled ‘A refugee camp called “The National List’. It was a light and cynical look at the national lists submitted to the Elections Commissioner by the People’s Alliance, the United National Party and other parties. [...]
Moragoda’s new party spurns election campaign extravagance »
Minister Milinda Moragoda’s new Sri Lanka National Congress, expected to run three candidates (including Moragoda) under the ruling UPFA banner in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, has in a letter to “fellow citizen’’ has criticized wastefull expensive election campaigns and pledged to curtail its own expenditure and spend the money saved in useful social work.
“I am [...]
Anglican Bishop expresses concern on Fonseka arrest »
Rt. Rev. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo, has in a statement issued last week, expressed concern over the arrest of General (Rtd.) Sarath Fonseka and called for clear information on this matter.
“The people’s right to clear information on such a serious matter regarding such a prominent personality should not be withheld,’’ he said in [...]
Anoma rebuts allegations »
By Ravi Velloor, South Asia Bureau Chief
Mrs Fonseka, who is allowed to visit her husband for an hour each day, has a rebuttal to every one of those allegations. — PHOTO: REUTERS
COLOMBO - IN THE courtyard of the rented bungalow in Colombo’s Queens Avenue, Jerfy, a two-year- old Dalmatian, howls for his master, General [...]
Bill Clinton Biography »
byname of William Jefferson Clinton , original name William Jefferson Blythe III
(1946–)
Bill Clinton
(born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas, U.S.) 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became only the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999. (For [...]
Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka to voice this daughter’s pain »
Monday, February 8, 2010
Where is my father?
I am Aparna Fonseka, youngest daughter of General Sarath Fonseka of Sri
Lanka. Today, 8 February 2010, I decided to start this blog because of the
unfortunate and disgraceful incident that happened to my father. I am
tired of watching from the sidelines and reading what people have written
without being able to [...]
Fonseka was ‘hell-bent’ on betrayal: Lanka Govt »
Sri Lanka’s government on Tuesday said defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka was “hell-bent” on betrayal and would be court-martialled on charges of conspiring against the president.
Fonseka lost by an 18 percentage point margin to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a Jan. 26 election, after which he accused his former commander-in-chief of vote-rigging, vowing to challenge [...]
Gen. Fonseka was forcibly dragged away from his office »
February 8th, 2010
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
In a disturbing turn of events, retired four star General Sarath Fonseka was taken into custody by a contingent of military police on the night of Monday, February 8th 2010.
General Sarath Fonseka
General Fonseka a widely regarded as the most successful army commander in post-Independence Sri Lanka was roughly manhandled, assaulted and [...]
Sarath Fonseka detained for `military offences’ »
B. Muralidhar Reddy
Sri Lanka’s former Army Chief and Opposition presidential candidate, General Sarath Fonseka, was detained by a team of investigators late on Monday night for “certain fraudulent acts and military offences” from the ‘safe house’ he had been living in since he lost the January 26 election.
Three days after the poll outcome, the government [...]
