Thu, Jan 8, 2015, 09:41 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 08 (AFP) Nearly six years after Sri Lanka's army destroyed the Tamil Tigers, their ghosts are haunting a bitterly fought presidential election as the embattled incumbent seeks to boost his share of the vote.
The Tamil Tigers terrorized Sri Lanka for decades with their trademark suicide bombings and high-profile assassinations before suffering a spectacular defeat in May 2009, ending a civil war that had claimed 100,000 lives.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa took credit for the no-holds-barred military offensive that all but wiped out the rebels, and won a landslide re-election victory the following year. But as the post-war gloss begins to wear off, the president has hinted darkly at a Tiger resurgence if he is not returned to power when the country goes to the polls today.
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Jan 08 (AFP) Nearly six years after Sri Lanka's army destroyed the Tamil Tigers, their ghosts are haunting a bitterly fought presidential election as the embattled incumbent seeks to boost his share of the vote.
The Tamil Tigers terrorized Sri Lanka for decades with their trademark suicide bombings and high-profile assassinations before suffering a spectacular defeat in May 2009, ending a civil war that had claimed 100,000 lives.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa took credit for the no-holds-barred military offensive that all but wiped out the rebels, and won a landslide re-election victory the following year. But as the post-war gloss begins to wear off, the president has hinted darkly at a Tiger resurgence if he is not returned to power when the country goes to the polls today.
more/source: http://ift.tt/1xUEZus
Raising the bogey of LTTE
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