Yeah, that's why the conflict ended and why the U.S. hasn't made a peep about this:
"Ex-Sri Lankan candidate arrested; Leader accused of coup plot says charge is baseless" by Krishan Francis, Associated Press | February 9, 2010
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s defeated presidential candidate was hauled from his office by military police yesterday and will be court-martialed for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army.
Yeah, he was sort of expecting something like that.
See: Sri Lankan Spat
Sarath Fonseka, who as the top general helped defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels, was forcibly detained after objecting to his arrest, opposition politician Rauff Hakeem said.
Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa were once strong allies who combined to end the country’s 25-year civil war in May. But they had a falling out, and Fonseka quit his post. They battled for the presidency in a bitter election last month; Rajapaksa won by 17 percentage points, according to official results.
Even as those votes were counted Jan. 26, hundreds of government troops surrounded a Colombo hotel where Fonseka and other opposition leaders had gathered. He was later allowed to leave the building, but the show of force foreshadowed yesterday’s arrest.
Officials have repeatedly accused Fonseka of plotting to kill Rajapaksa and overthrow the government with the help of army deserters and former military officers. Fonseka has called the allegations fabricated and vowed to push on with his political career. A number of serving officers, who the government said were considered to be a threat to national security, have been fired.
Keheliya Rambukwella, government minister, said Fonseka will be tried in a military court on charges of conspiring against the president and planning a coup....
Hakeem said Fonseka objected to being arrested by military police instead of civilian officers, because he is no longer in the military.
The officers dragged Fonseka and his secretary into their vehicles, Hakeem said. “He was humiliated and disgraced in the way he was handled. We were just flabbergasted,’’ he said.
Since the Jan. 26 election, Fonseka has complained that the government was attempting to arrest him on trumped-up charges. Last week, security forces raided his office and arrested at least 15 of his staff.
“We have to ask why now? Why not six months ago when he was a military officer,’’ asked Jehan Perera, an analyst with the independent activist group National Peace Council.
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I'm sorry, readers, but I don't give a crap about politics anywhere anymore.
Because crap is what it is.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s president dissolved Parliament yesterday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party’s stifling grip on power....
And NOT a PEEP from the press or U.N. from what I've read in my newspaper.
If last month’s presidential poll is anything to go by, the upcoming parliamentary contest will be another bitter race between the government and the opposition, which says it is being harassed. Human rights groups have echoed those accusations.
Where are you, world?
Fonseka’s arrest will probably serve as a warning to others who might seek to challenge the ruling party’s effort to cement its grip on power in the parliamentary poll. President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ruling coalition is hoping to secure a two-thirds majority in the Legislature, giving them virtually unfettered control of this island nation off the southern tip of India....
Yeah, SHIPPING LANES are more important than people, didn't you know that?
Nothing since in my Glob, folks.
