11/20/2010
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AllVoices
Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa took oaths for his second six-year term Friday as the first president to serve without the threat of war. A day after celebrating his 65th birthday, Rajapaksa was sworn in before Chief Justice Asoka De Silva in an outdoor ceremony on the steps of the old Parliament building facing the Indian Ocean.
11/18/2010
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The Economist
WHAT to give a president who wants for nothing? Sri Lanka’s mustachioed ruler, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who turned 65 on November 18th, has a thriving personality cult, helped by propaganda that gives him sole credit for the crushing of Tamil rebels last year, after nearly three decades of civil war. He won a second presidential term in January. His party romped home in parliamentary polls. And he has since had the constitution rejigged to scrap term limits and make his office mightier.
11/18/2010
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BBC
VIDEO: On Friday Mahinda Rajapaksa is to be sworn in for the second time as president of Sri Lanka.
11/15/2010
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The Hindu
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday kicked off a week-long celebrations to mark his second term in office beginning November 19.