Paying a Human Smuggler = Breaking the law.

Those who break the law are called criminals.

You agree with the user ID 'Madugalle' because you are Madugalle. I know all your various aliases you use here to spread hate, they all match the same IP.

I'm flattered. People want to be me. What's the weather like in the UK these days?

The Sri Lankan government has granted permission to the country's most senior military officer, Gen Sarath Fonseka, to retire with immediate effect.

Source - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8359709.stm

Achala as I mentioned in a comment above, if people are disgusted with Rajapaksa, you won't need Fonseka running for president. No one will vote for Rajapaksa. The very reason Fonseka is running is because the opposition needed a popular man from within Rajapaksa's camp to win them an election.

Suresh,

Everyone thinks that my opinions are biased in one way or the other. The Tigers think I'm biased, the UNP and JVP think I'm biased. Heck, even the Sinhalese nationalist come here and call me a NGO crook and traitor after reading one line I wrote somewhere.

Banana Republic is a term the yuppies applied to any nation that according to their yard stick of measure is unstable. Under Fonseka, or under MR, even under Ranil, a third world country is what we will be. You can call it Coconut Republic if you like but none of it is going to change because Fonseka becomes president.

Only 6 months has passed since the end of full scare war. You cant expect things on the island to change in 6 months.

I am not fond of Military men giving up their fatigues to run for president.

A regime change, or a change in the government must come from the people. If the people are truly not satisfied with Rajapaksa, you don't need Fonseka to win you an election?

Thank you for the comment. Did you mean the date when the post was published? I have a guy who helps me with the whole technical side of this blog. I will see if he can help.

Now I have no doubt he wants to run for president. The timing of his resignation can't be a coincidence. This is probably the worst career move he has ever made.

I guess the move to "promote" the popular general to a non operational CDS position backfired for the Rajapaksa brothers. I read somewhere that they wanted to give him less control of the army because of his immense popularity after defeating the Tigers.

I don't think he will win. He may think that the masses support him because he was instrumental in defeating the Tigers, but the masses also know that his military strategy would have been useless if not for the will and the backing from the president and the defence secretary.

Colombo Page says Rajapaksa has accepted his resignation!

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_091/Nov1258039...

Fonseka has handed in his resignation. No information if Rajapaksa has accepted.

"An official says Sri Lanka's top general who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island's civil war has resigned from his post.

An official from the president office says the president's secretary received Gen. Sarath Fonseka's resignation letter Thursday. The official asked not to be named due to sensitivity of the issue."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM...