Mahinda Rajapakse

Type: Person

Name: Mahinda Rajapakse

Title: President of Sri Lanka

Organization: Sri Lanka Governement

Date of Birth: 18/11/1945

Place of Birth: Weeraketiya, a town in the Hambantota district, Southern province

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Fact Sheet: Biography for Mahinda Rajapakse

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

Mahinda Rajapakse

Sri Lanka Prez Rajapaksa to visit China later this

Beijing: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa would visit China later this month on the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Foreign Ministry here said on Monday.This will be Rajapaksa's first visit after the new leadership took power in ... [Published zeenews.com - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lanka, China

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

United People's Freedom Alliance (Sri Lanka)

SRI LANKA: LOOKING FOR DIRECTION?

An unscheduled mini battle is on in the junior league for“13A” that could change the face of Sri Lanka in 2013/2014.Non-playing captains, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe are watching the game from the pavilion cheering respectively the Weerawansa ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Colombo (Sri Lanka), United People's Freedom Alliance (Sri Lanka), Mahinda Rajapakse

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

This is not Terrorism - Editorial

Today’s protests by the trade unions affiliated to the opposition parties against the government’s decision to up the electricity tariffs from this month would definitely meet with stiff resistance and scorn by the government, its trade union leaders ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Terrorism, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Trade Union

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 3 reports

HRW: no progress in Sri Lanka since civil war ended

[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said [press release] Monday that no progress has been made in Sri Lanka regarding respect for basic rights and liberties in the four years since the end of the country's brutal 26-year civil war [JURIST ... [Published JURIST's Paper Chase - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Civil War, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Rajapakse, Abuse

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 3 reports

Sri Lankan President to visit China

President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse will pay a state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping between May 27 and 30.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the announcement at the daily press briefing Monday. ... [Published Global Times - 17 hours ago]

Entities: China, Mahinda Rajapakse, Hong Lei, Chinese Foreign Ministry

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Sri Lankan president to visit China

Beijing, May 20 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse will pay a state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping between May 27 and 30, an official said Monday.Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the announcement ... [Published Sify - 17 hours ago]

Entities: China, Mahinda Rajapakse, Hong Lei, Chinese Foreign Ministry

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 2 reports

Velupillai Prabhakaran

Getting Tough With Commemorative LTTE Celebrants Is A Start Where The TNA Should Also Be Censured!

$ All kudos to Army Commander Maj.Gen. Boniface Perera who has sent a clear message to those concerned that ?Any organisation or individual will not be allowed to venerate a terrorist organisation. Anyone participating in a commemoration ceremony for ... [Published LankaWeb - May 20 2013]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Vavuniya (Sri Lanka), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Velupillai Prabhakaran

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

President Slams CFA

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday criticised the cease fire agreement signed with the LTTE which he says was a betrayal to the nation.Speaking at the victory day parade at Galle Face to celebrate four years since the defeat of the LTTE, the President ... [Published Sri Lanka Sunday Leader - May 19 2013]

Entities: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Rajapakse, Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

President can bring about peace: Salley

Former Colombo Deputy Mayor Azath Salley who shot to fame as a result of his arrest, today said President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the ideal person to bring about proper peace and reconciliation.Mr. Salley told a news conference that President Rajapaksa’s ... [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 19 2013]

Entities: Mahinda Rajapakse, Deputy Mayor, Colombo (Sri Lanka)

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 3 reports

Sailor dies during Sri Lanka victory parade

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s navy Sunday recovered the body of a sailor who drowned during a parade marking the fourth anniversary of the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, an official said.The body was found near a beach in Colombo where his small boat capsized ... [Published New Straits Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Mahinda Rajapakse

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Rajapaksa Govt Fast Losing Its Allure

Khurshid calls GL to discuss 13th Amendment Joint opposition protests intensify against govtPresident Mahinda Rajapaksa is now facing continuous headaches in the form of the possible re-entry into politics by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge ... [Published Sri Lanka Sunday Leader - May 19 2013]

Entities: Mahinda Rajapakse, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Elections, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Trade Union

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Rajapaksa vows to fight external forces for peace

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday renewed his pledge to fight all "external elements" seeking to "disrupt" the countrys peace. ... [Published Business Standard India - May 19 2013]

Entities: Mahinda Rajapakse

Quotes

...President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa in his speech said that local government plays a vital role in strengthening democracy. "for local governments to act as catalyst for development at the grassroots, their autonomy, periodic election and fiscal allocation to enable for efficient public sector expenditure should be substantially guaranteed. this is in place in the current dispensation of our administration" he said

Jonathan, Others, Make Case for LG Autonomy [Published AllAfrica.com - 18 hours ago]

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Sri Lankan president to visit China [Published Sify - 17 hours ago]
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“Revert to District Council” [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 20 2013]
President Slams CFA [Published Sri Lanka Sunday Leader - May 19 2013]
Sri Lankan President to visit China next week [Published Colombo Page - May 19 2013]
President can bring about peace: Salley [Published Daily Mirror Sri Lanka - May 19 2013]
In Pictures: Sri Lankan President honors fallen... [Published Colombo Page - May 19 2013]
Sailor dies during Sri Lanka victory parade [Published New Straits Times - May 19 2013]
Expressions [Published Sunday Observer - May 19 2013]

Blogs

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OPPOSITION MYTHS, POLITICAL REALITIES [Published groundviews - May 18 2013] Image courtesy Asianews.it Erroneous political thinking and analysis obscure and obstruct the path of the political recovery of the Opposition in Sri Lanka. They can be disaggregated into six myths. Myth 1 is that unity at all costs in the ...
A New Political Regime Post-2010 in Sri Lanka: ... [Published groundviews - May 15 2013] Image courtesy Brisbane Times by Laksiri Jayasuriya , University of Western Australia Introduction The 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential and Parliamentary elections that took place shortly after the end of a debilitating 25 year-old civil war ...
World Press Freedom day, Uthayan and Freedom of... [Published groundviews - May 01 2013] Photo courtesy SIDA “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties” John Milton 3rd May was declared as World Press Freedom day by the UN General Assembly in 1991. Since then, it is ...
‘Long War, Cold Peace’ & the Return of Daya... [Published groundviews - Apr 20 2013] After what seemed to be a brief but palpable and conspicuous absence from serious public engagement (in late 2012), Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka has returned from Paris; a return marked by his characteristic interventions in the press and the release of ...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Are you listening? [Published groundviews - Apr 16 2013] Image from Lanka Standard After nearly 7 years of postgraduate education and independent research experience abroad, I returned to Sri Lanka in mid 2003, to work in my mother country Sri Lanka that gave me free education all the way upto university ...

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Sri Lankan Chief Justice dismissal denounced [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Dec 16 2012]