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Sri Lanka’s Tamils wait for President Rajapaksa to deliver
(By Jonathan Miller, Channel 4 News, 27 01 2010) - General Sarath Fonseka has yet to concede, but it’s pretty clear he’s lost Sri Lanka’s presidential election.
The indication is that President Mahinda Rajapaksa won by a substantial margin, although the opposition is crying foul. The general is now holed up in a hotel in Colombo. He has reasons to be fearful.
This has just appeared on YouTube. Gripping stuff.
Sri Lanka has a history of post-election violence and reprisal. There are many who are surprised that the general made it through the campaign alive.
As I write, it’s all pretty murky out there.
Official election results have apparently just been announced to reporters by the Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake, giving Rajapaksa 58 per cent of the vote against Fonseka’s 40 per cent.
Not long before that, the Sri Lanka Guardian newspaper was talking of “strong rumours floating about in Colombo” that the commissioner had been placed under house arrest.
Aside from the triumphantist ethnic Sinhalese nationalists who turned out in large numbers to return Mahinda Rajapaksa to power for a second term, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority now also has reasons to be fearful. More…
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It is the law bound duty of the biggest and largest democratic country India, to ask Rajapakse a time frame for offering all equal rights to tamils, by bringing necessary amendments to its constitution and enact law for the safeguard of tamils, failing which the onus and responsibility will certainly rest on the shoulder of India. Most of the tamils feel India’s recent years foreign policy has no longterm interest this is because of poor and unfit officers and politicians and it is felt that India has anti-tamil attitude which in turn will spoil entire tamils faith on india.