NewYork Times,  Tue Feb  2 10:14:29 EST 2010

    Sri Lanka's supreme court on Tuesday ruled President Mahinda Rajapaksa can begin his new term in November, giving him an extra year in power after he called polls two years before his first term was to expire.
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Barely an year ago, Ranil Wickremesinghe, his cronies and his senior party members such as Joseph Michael Perera made categorical statements that it was General Fonseka's special military intelligence teams that were responsible for this act and for the abuse suffered by Keith Noyahr. This sort of talk was very common amongst Ranil W's kitchen cabinet, at his home and amongst his friends.  RW told some government people that the attack on Sirasa was also General Fonseka's doing.
  

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Sri Lanka's main opposition party has accused the country's most senior army officer of being behind violent attacks on reporters. Opposition MP Joseph Michael Perera told parliament that the attacks were carried out by a "special team" controlled by Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7496367.stm

So what changed from then to November? JVP influence? I would suspect everyone knew who did what, but because the war had to be won, no one did anything. SO who is throwing stones at whom now? Who knew what? Who did what?  is it a case of thieves falling out and then accusing each other?  I recall clear statements after KN was abucted and abused. General Fonseka basically alluded to people writing false statements and what can happen to them.

SO who dunnit] Are we an Mugabistan?

This is a very bad reflection of the supreme court and further evidence for the corruption in the highest court in the country. MR's term should start from the date the results were declared. Not from Feb 4th, Nov 10th or his grandmother's b'day.

Did some astrologer claim that Machiavelli's stars
were on the wane ?

Everything is running in MR's favor.


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