Bloomberg,  Thu Feb 25 20:18:13 EST 2010

    Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka said General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated opposition candidate in January’s presidential election being detained for violating military law, will face additional charges in a civilian court.

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- The Academic

This has become more high-profile than it needs
to be. The electorate must be confused with
the high-voltage arrests and cases and non-stop drama.


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rm7000 wrote:

This has become more high-profile than it needs
to be. The electorate must be confused with
the high-voltage arrests and cases and non-stop drama.

it is high profile drama for people in Colombo electorates which MR don't expect any wins.
the rural area will be mud washed with government media bad mouthing about SF which they would believe.
at the end there is no impact from this non-stop drama for MRs populairty in rural areas which MR depends for his GE victory.

Now they managed break TNA to pieces so MR can scavenge some more seats from North & East which is going to be a bonus for him.

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“He will be accused of fraud, condoning fraud, plotting against the government, creating unrest within the army and keeping army deserters under his protection,” the government cited G.L. Peiris, the minister of export development and international trade, as saying late yesterday.

  A classic case of how to incriminate a man.  The only crime he did was contesting against MR