04/09/2011
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BBC
The US says serious rights violations are still committed in Sri Lanka despite the end of the armed conflict in 2009.
11/11/2010
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Asia Times
BANGALORE - Sri Lanka's first family appears to be at war with itself. With its grip over power tightening substantially and the stakes increasing, feuds between family members are said to be growing.
10/01/2010
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Himal Southasian
By: Tisaranee Gunasekara
With the passage of the 18th Amendment, the last real impediment to the Rajapakse dynasty has been removed.
04/28/2010
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Time magazine
He won his first presidential election in 2005 by a razor thin margin of 180,000 votes. Five years later, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa was re-elected, by a victory margin of over 1.8 million votes.
Since then, the man hailing from the deep south of the country has proved countless detracters and arm-chair critics wrong. There were doubters who did not think he could get his own party's candidacy for the 2005 presidential race to replace Chandrika Kumaratunga. Ever fewer gave him any chance of victory when he launched military operations against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2005 to end the island's long years of bloody civil war. (Read an interview with the president.)