Sarath Fonseka

Gen. Fonseka petitions against Rajapaksa's re-election as Sri Lanka's President AsiaOne 02/16/2010	Sri Lanka monks call for release of arrested Fonseka AP 02/14/2010
SRI LANKA- General (retd) Sarath Fonseka yesterday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, requesting that the re-election of Mahinda Rajapaksa as President of Sri Lanka at the Jan. 26 polls be declared void.	COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Senior Sri Lankan Buddhist monks urged the president on Sunday to release his main rival in last month's presidential election, who was detained on allegations of conspiring to overthrow the government while serving as army chief.
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Arrested Sri Lanka leader urges calm as protests mount Amal Jayasinghe AFP 02/11/2010	Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka beaten during arrest Dean Nelson Telegraph 02/09/2010
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka has appealed for calm, his wife said Thursday, after violent clashes linked to his arrest on conspiracy charges.	General Sarath Fonseka, the former Sri Lankan military chief and defeated presidential candidate, has been punched and dragged along the ground by army troops who arrested him as he met political allies last night.
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Aide to Sri Lanka's General Fonseka arrested over journalist murder Dean Nelson Telegraph 02/02/2010
A senior officer in the Sri Lankan army has been arrested in connection with the murder of a top campaigning journalist.
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