07/31/2010
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ColomboPage
July 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to meet Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe for extensive talks. The discussion will be held in the President's official residence Temple Trees on Tuesday, August 03.
07/13/2010
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Reuters
(Reuters) - Sri Lanka's president and opposition leader have struck a broad deal on constitutional changes, chief of which is a plan to return the Indian Ocean island nation to leadership by an executive prime minister.
07/12/2010
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ColomboPage
July 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the eight-member Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission appointed by him to probe and report on the lessons to be learnt from the events during the ethnic conflict will heal the wounds of conflict.
07/11/2010
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Sunday Times
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will abandon moves to amend the Constitution to enable him to contest any number of times for this post. Instead, he has agreed ‘in principle’ to create the office of an Executive Prime Minister.
12/11/2009
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Associated Press
Just a few months ago, Sri Lanka's president and its army chief were strong allies, working closely together to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels and end the nation's 25-year civil war.
Now the two men hailed as national heroes are bitter political opponents, as Gen. Sarath Fonseka works to unseat President Mahinda Rajapaksa in next month's presidential elections.
12/10/2009
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Government of Sri Lanka
"The celebration of Human Rights Day in Sri Lanka this year is of special significance as it takes place when the entire country is liberated from the clutches of terrorism and all Sri Lankans enjoy the freedoms they were denied for a very long period."
11/04/2009
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The Island
JVP MP argues that president's brothers should give up American citizenship.