03/09/2010
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BBC
Sri Lanka's outgoing parliament has voted to extend the state of emergency across the island until after next month's legislative elections.
02/28/2010
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Sunday Observer
Apart from the popular sports and film figures, nine journalists will also contest the forthcoming General Election to secure seats in Sri Lanka’s seventh Parliament.
02/25/2010
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BBC
Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka - currently detained in military custody - is to stand in April's parliamentary polls.
02/24/2010
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Daily Mirror
General Sarath Fonseka today rejected the latest invitation to join the United National Front (UNF) alliance, former parliamentarian Mano Ganeshan told Daily Mirror online adding that the alliance will meet in a short while to discuss the issue.
02/24/2010
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Daily Mirror
Democratic National Alliance Leader General Sarath Fonseka signed his nomination papers while under detention today to contest the General Elections from the Colombo District, JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Daily Mirror Online. (ISA)
02/21/2010
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The Sunday Leader
The opposition will be divided into two platforms at the forthcoming general election – the UNP led collation of parties that would contest under the UNF and the alliance led by General Sarath Fonseka together with the JVP under the Democratic National Alliance (DNA).
02/07/2010
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The Sunday Leader
EDITORIAL: In a democracy, a thumping majority is expected to result in cool heads among the victors and cold feet among losers. The recent presidential election in Sri Lanka has had the opposite effect with the winners going for the jugulars of the losers and the losers preparing for rearguard action. General Sarath Fonseka is alleged by some leading personalities of the Rajapakse government of planning a military coup against the government and several of his close associates being arrested while the opposition parties within six days after the election, took to the streets and staged a massive demonstration in Colombo’s Hyde Park in protest against what they allege was a rigged election.