08/19/2010
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The Economist
WEARING a crisp blue shirt, Kumaraswamy Nageswaran gestures dejectedly to a towering fence that keeps him from his village and his three acres of farmland on the Trincomalee coast. Five years ago, as Tamil Tiger rebels fought desperately with the Sri Lankan army, thousands of families fled Sampur and adjoining villages. They returned in the six months to January this year, only to find themselves victims of post-war development plans.
08/14/2010
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Associated Press
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president approved the dishonorable discharge of his former army chief and political rival Saturday, a day after a military court convicted the general of involvement in politics while in service.
08/13/2010
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BBC
A court martial has found the former Sri Lankan armed forces chief, Gen Sarath Fonseka, guilty of engaging in politics while on active service.
08/13/2010
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RTT News
(RTTNews) - Sri Lanka's court martial has convicted General Sarath Fonseka, former Army Chief and political adversary of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, of dabbling in politics and stripped him of his rank and medals.
07/22/2010
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Xinhua
Thousands of people protested in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Wednesday demanding the release of former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka who is currently in military custody over allegedly violating the military law while in uniform.
07/13/2010
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Agence France-Presse
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan police have filed a new case against former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka for allegedly employing military deserters, his party said Tuesday.
07/12/2010
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ColomboPage
July 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities today (12) filed a third case before a civil court against former Army Commander and Democratic National Alliance (DNA) parliamentarian retired General Sarath Fonseka.
07/02/2010
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Xinhua
The Magistrate's Court in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Friday called for taped recordings of former Army chief General Sarath Fonseka's election platform speeches as part of the court investigations, court officials said.
The court ordered two privately owned television channels to produce the recordings of Fonseka's speeches backing his candidature in the presidential election held in January.
The tapes are being called with regard to the court case involving Fonseka's alleged statement that the Sri Lankan military shot dead Tamil Tiger rebels who had come before the military to surrender by raising white flags.
Fonseka is likely to face treason charges once the prosecution finalized gathering evidence, officials said.
Fonseka later cleared his position that he was conveying information provided to him by a journalist and his troops did not commit any war crimes during its last battle against the rebels.
The former Army chief is currently under military detention facing two court martials.
06/19/2010
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The Hindu
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday pledged to resolve the “problems faced from terrorism” by the people in the North by the end of the year and asserted that there could be no imported solution to the problems faced by the people of the island nation.
06/07/2010
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The New York Times
In an interview with the BBC, Sri Lanka’s powerful defense minister, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, exploded with rage and said that the former head of the country’s military, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who was lauded last year for defeating a Tamil separatist insurgency, could be hanged for reportedly claiming that the government had ordered the military to execute prisoners.