07/11/2010
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Sunday Times
Voting rights of thousands in Kilinochchi and Jaffna districts are at stake due to the lack of manpower in updating the voters’ registers and lack of coordination between Government departments, officials said. Since the commencement of the revision of electoral registers on June 1 throughout the country, the task of registering more than 65,000 resettled internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kilinochchi has been entrusted to Grama Niladharis with little progress being made, they said.
01/27/2010
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New York Times
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, was re-elected by a wide margin, election officials here said Wednesday, defeating the newly retired army general who had tried to lay claim to Mr. Rajapaksa’s biggest political victory, the defeat of the Tamil Tiger insurgency.
01/27/2010
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BBC
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has won Sri Lanka's first election since Tamil Tiger rebels were defeated after 25 years of civil war, state TV reports.
01/26/2010
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New York Times, The Lede blog
Millions of Sri Lankans cast votes on Tuesday in a presidential election, but the leading opposition candidate, a retired general who crushed a separatist movement last year, was not one of them.
01/26/2010
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BBC
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Long queues lead to polling booths in Sri Lanka as country votes for new president
* It's the first presidential election since the end of the civil war which lasted almost 26 years
* Frontrunners are incumbent President Mahnida Rajapaksa and retired Army General Sarath Fonseka
* Analysts say minority Tamil community may cast the deciding vote
01/26/2010
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ABC radio
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Millions of voters cast their ballots today in Sri Lanka's presidential election.
The President Mahinda Rajapaksa is calling for the poll to be peaceful, free and democratic.
But the campaign has been overshadowed by violence.
Opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka is confident he can win.
Electoral analysts say the result will be close.
South Asia correspondent Sally Sara reports from Colombo.
This is a radio story. Links to MP3s.
01/26/2010
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AFP, Agence France-Presse
COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s government said Tuesday that it would challenge the legitimacy of leading opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka, who contested the country’s first post-war presidential election.
01/26/2010
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Daily Mirror
The government said this evening that legal action will be sought against General Sarath Fonseka challenging his presidential candidature as he was not a registered voter and not qualified to be elected president.
01/26/2010
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Daily Mirror (cached)
The government said this evening that legal action will be sought against General Sarath Fonseka challenging his presidential candidature as he was not a registered voter and not qualified to be elected president.