07/29/2010
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Daily Mirror
The Elections Secretariat has decided to omit from the 2010 electoral register, the names of voters in the Jaffna district who have left the country during the conflict period. Elections authorities are currently enumerating the voters to prepare the electoral list for 2010.
07/05/2010
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RTT
(RTTNews) - Sri Lankan Supreme Court has opened a hearing on election fraud allegations against President Mahinda Rajapaksa by failed opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka.
05/09/2010
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ColomboPage
May 09, Colombo: Sri Lanka defense sources say that the authorities have blacklisted the 272 Tamils elected to the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) in elections held last Sunday.
05/03/2010
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BBC Sinhala
More than 200,000 of the Sri Lankan diaspora appears to be united in their allegiances in the upcoming UK parliamentary elections.
05/02/2010
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The Globe and Mail
Tamil Canadians turned out by the thousands to cast ballots in a controversial election, described as “illegal” by Sri Lankan officials, to choose members for a “transnational government” of a non-existent Tamil state within the South Asian island country.
Turnout was reportedly high in Toronto, which is home to more than half of Canada’s estimated 200,000 Sri Lankan Tamils, many of whom fled their country after civil war broke out between the separatist Tamil Tigers and the national government in 1983.
04/22/2010
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BBC News
Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka has been released from detention to appear in the opening session of parliament.
03/27/2010
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Global Post
Incumbent President Rajapakse has made it clear he favors economic growth over the well-being of his populace.
03/23/2010
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Agence France Presse
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan opposition groups demonstrated in Colombo on Tuesday demanding the release of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who attempted to unseat the president in recent elections.
03/09/2010
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Dissident Voice
The deepest division in Sri Lanka is not the so-called ethnic divide but the split between supporters of democracy and supporters of totalitarianism, and the recent elections proved this point.
03/08/2010
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BBC
The recent arrest of Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate, Gen Sarath Fonseka, along with some of his supporters, has raised fears among rights groups in the country. The authorities accuse the general of having worked with what they call anti-government forces. Here people in Sri Lanka discuss the latest political developments as they prepare for general elections in April.