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President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday accepted Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka’s resignation letter. Accordingly, Gen. Fonseka will cease to be CDS with effect from Dec. 01, 2009. Gen. Fonseka informed the President of his desire to resign at a one-to-one meeting on Wednesday, where they were expected to iron out their differences. Cordial as the meeting was, President Rajapaksa said he had no objections to Gen. Fonseka’s resignation or his decision to enter politics.
Yapa unable to explain Gen
Fonseka’s ‘decision to run for Presidency’
Media Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa said yesterday
that he was not in a position to explain why General Sarath Fonseka,
having worked with President Mahinda Rajapaksa to defeat the LTTE, was
now said to be his...
Lankans stranded in Jeddah
cry for help
A Sri Lankan maid stranded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia cried
her heart out at a press conference held by Uva Provincial Council
Opposition leader Ranjan Ramanayake via a teleconferencing facility at
Hotel Nippon yesterday.
General
Fonseka and the Election
Last week, in the first three paragraphs of
this column, I made the point that despite
