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	::: Welcome to MahindaRajapaksa.com :::
		Throughout his career, Mahinda has given leadership to the cause of uplifting youth, striving to achieve a higher quality of education and training (especially in rural areas) as well as working to reduce youth unemployment.
		Mahinda proved to be a remarkably successful Minister of Labour, despite suffering a major setback in being unable to bring his brainchild, the Worker’s Charter, into law.
		It has been written of Mahinda Rajapaksa, “If there walks on this earth today a man whose heart beats as one with the workers of the world, that man is this man.” Mahinda is a leader with his finger firmly on the pulse of the people.
	www.mahindarajapaksa.com /about.php (1122 words)

	Mahinda Rajapaksha Profile at LankaNewspapers.com
		An attotney-at-law Mahinda Rajapaksha came to the Parliment from Beliatta seat in 1970.
		Mahinda proved to be a remarkably successful Minister of Labour.
		Mahinda and his gang has presided over 5000 deaths, still continuing with the war only strategy, Donr monies are drying out because of failing to win the war as planned and promised by the likes of Fonseka.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/profiles/mahinda.jsp (290 words)

	Mahinda Rajapakse (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mahinda Rajapakse (born November 18, 1945), Sri Lankan politician, became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on April 6 2004, following the victory of the United People's Freedom Alliance in the April 2, 2004 Sri Lankan legislative elections.
		Rajapakse, a Sinhalese Buddhist from the southern district of Hambantota, is a lawyer who has represented the area in the Sri Lanka Parliament since 1970.
		Rajapakse was Minister for Labour and for Fisheries in Kumaratunga's cabinet from 1994 to 2001.
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Mahinda_Rajapakse (287 words)

	MAHINDA ADOPTS DEFINITE STRATEGY TOWARDS TAMILS BY D.B.S.JEYARAJ
		Rajapakse is being circumscribed due to his dependency on the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and Jathika Hela Urumaya it is said.
		Rajapakse was born in 1946 but he is in reality the politically quintessential child of 1956 (Panashaye Daruwo) Mahinda believes that the Sinhala Buddhists are the rightful and sole heirs to this Island.
		When Mahinda Rajapakse won the Presidential elections last year on a hardline platform I wrote that it was a defeat not for the tigers but for the moderate Tamils desiring to live in a united Sri Lanka with equal rights.
	www.uthayam.net /articles/jun2006_2.html (3353 words)

	A narrow victory
		Mahinda Rajapakse wins the hard-fought presidential election in Sri Lanka mainly owing to a polarised electorate and a boycott by Tamil voters in the northeastern electoral districts.
		Rajapakse, backed by the unitarists, won in the Sinhala districts, while Wickremesinghe, backed by the federalists, won in districts in which the minority ethnic communities were in large numbers or in those that had a mix of the three main ethnicities - Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim.
		Rajapakse's victory is thus attributed largely to a polarised Sinhalese electorate and the "boycott" by Tamil voters in the northern and eastern districts.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2225/stories/20051216000406000.htm (1379 words)

	President of Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mahinda Rajapaksa was first elected to Parliament as an SLFP member, from the Beliatta seat in 1970.
		For the November 2005 Presidential election Mahinda Rajapaksa was chosen as the Presidential Candidate of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party for the election held on 17 November 2005, when his candidature was approved by 25 political parties and people’s movements.
		Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the fifth Executive President of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on the 19th of November 2005, after being elected President with a majority that endorsed his manifesto in a closely contested and peaceful election.
	www.presidentsl.org /data/about.htm (676 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for mahinda
		Rajapakse became opposition leader in 2002 and prime minister in 2004.
		Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse (C) is escorted by members...
		Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse (C) is watched by his...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=mahinda (352 words)

	Mahinda Rajapakse - the Road to Disaster
		The manifesto of Mahinda Rajapakse, presidential candidate of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), is an endorsement that a leopard (Sinhala political leaders) does not change its spots (the supremacy of the Sinhalese).
		Mr Rajapakse does not seem to realise that the bottom line in the struggle to free the Tamil people from Sinhalese domination is the right of a people to self-determination.
		Rajapakse’s ‘thoughts’ and their inevitable consequence (war) is reminiscent of another Sinhala political ‘leader’ J.R.Jayawardene, from the other side of the Sinhala political divide, the UNP.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/brian/051031mahinda.htm (1636 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| January - February 2006
		Ironically, it was the LTTE’s enforced boycott of the polls by Tamil voters in the north and east that clinched victory for Rajapakse, by the slimmest of margins.
		Rajapakse promised instead to roll back the clock on concessions made to the LTTE, including a revision of the February 2002 Ceasefire Agreement, on terms that would be more favourable to the Colombo government.
		Rajapakse and his hardline allies were hoping that India might take on the burden, but have not had a positive response to their pleas.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/january/commentary_3.html (1147 words)

	The Morning Leader : Woman's Page
		In 1989, Mahinda Rajapakse and Vasudeva Nanayakkara — both members of parliament then, were stopped at the Katunayake airport on their way to the UN Working Group on Human Rights in Geneva, and their documents on HR violations were confiscated.
		Moreover, Rajapakse’s regime took off with a heavy toll against the media too, although he is often projected as a friend of the media, talking to editors and journalists on one-to-one terms quite often.
		Mahinda Rajapakse would not be different, from all he is proving to be.
	www.themorningleader.lk /20060607/focus.html (1481 words)

	News
		President Mahinda Rajapakse and Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh discussed the Sri Lankan peace process, the security and political situation, the Ceasefire Agreement between the government and the LTTE and economic cooperation between India and Sri Lanka when they met yesterday.
		President Mahinda Rajapakse inspects a guard of honour during the ceremonial reception in New Delhi yesterday.
		President Rajapakse is on a four-day State visit to India, his first as the President of Sri Lanka.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/12/29/news01.htm (433 words)

	Sri Lanka: Mahinda Rajapakse to head a minority government (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But when Rajapakse’s ministry drafted a “workers charter” in collaboration with the unions, it ran into sharp opposition from the IMF and World Bank which were demanding the removal of any protection for workers’ jobs and conditions.
		Kumaratunga and Rajapakse are counting on using India to pressure the LTTE to negotiate on Colombo’s terms.
		Rajapakse also faces opposition from big business, which backed Wickremesinghe and the peace process as a means of transforming the island into a cheap labour platform.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/apr2004/sri-a07.shtml (1638 words)

	LankaWeb News
		Rajapakse’s forthright stand helped him to win over the JVP and JHU and on August 14 -two days after the assassination - the anti-terror alliance was born subsequent to a meeting chaired by Rajapakse at Temple Trees.
		We stayed overnight at Rajapakse’s residence (he was in Colombo) and were blindfolded and taken to a JVP hideout at Kudawella.
		But Rajapakse held on and over the years overcame a series of obstacles and in February 2004 took over Office of the Opposition Leader after President Kumaratunga favoured him over her brother who was away in the US.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items05/210905-2.html (1482 words)

	Top Sri Lankan: Cease-fire meaningless - Boston.com
		Rajapakse and his two brothers -- Mahinda, the president and Basil Rajapakse, a presidential adviser -- control much of the government and are believed to be largely in agreement on major issues.
		But Gotabhaya Rajapakse is publicly the most hard-line, advocating tough actions as what many see as the "bad cop" to his brothers' more diplomatic "good cop" act.
		Gotabhaya Rajapakse said the campaign has been largely successful, with the rebels now confined to a small area of jungle cut off from resupply or reinforcement.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2007/04/12/30_reportedly_dead_in_sri_lankan_clashes (850 words)

	Mahinda Rajapakse to discuss peace with Manmohan - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rajapakse was slated to meet the leader of the ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, as well as ministers of commerce and industry, home, shipping, road transport, and highways and planning.
		Rajapakse said he was also keen to study India's system of devolution as it could be a model for Sri Lanka to grant extensive power to minority Tamils.
		Rajapakse has gone back on a promise by his party to accept a federal system of government in exchange for ethnic peace as initially agreed with the Tamil Tigers during a round of talks in December 2002.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=14061208 (490 words)

	Can India trust the Sri Lankan President?
		Rajapakse -- who was born in south Sri Lanka's Hambantota district, whose voters are engaged by nationalist leaders of all hues -- is a Left-of-Centre political leader.
		D A Rajapakse was elected to parliament from Beliatta in Hambantota between 1947 and 1965.
		Rajapakse's political strength is his mass base; he is a street-savvy politician who can connect with voters.
	in.rediff.com /news/2006/jul/28spec.htm (1524 words)

	The Lanka Academic, the official newspaper of LAcNet
		Mahinda Rajapaksa, from February 18, 2002 to March 11, 2002.
		Mahinda Rajapaksa (56) is currently the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament.
		Dear Mahinda, Sri Lankans have lost faith in all politicians be it red blue or green.What would you do as the leader of the opposition to restore the citizens faith in the politicians and by it the democratic traditions of the country.
	www.lacnet.org /the_academic/chat/QA_Mahinda.shtml (4606 words)

	LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE - LBO
		Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse has agreed to completely overhaul the peace process, draft a brand-new ceasefire and totally scrap privatisation in exchange for JVP support at the presidential election, the party said Monday.
		If ratified by the Rajapakse's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) whose policy making working committee is to meet tomorrow afternoon at the Race Course to confirm his candidature, the JVP demands could lead to a brand-new peace bid.
		Rajapakse's main challenger at the polls which must be held anytime between October 22 and November 21 is former premier Ranil Wickremesinghe who says he wants to revive the stalled peace bid with the Tigers.
	www.lankabusinessonline.com /print.php?newsID=783551824 (517 words)

	Sangam.org - Ilankai Tamil Sangam
		Mahinda Rajapakse and Ranil Wickremesinghe, each of them are offering serious alternate policies to put this country on the path towards peace and prosperity.
		Rajapakse’s role in the unauthorized shifting of official Tsunami donor funds to a private ‘Helping Hambantota’ bank account mainly controlled by family members and friends and the lid put on any inquiry certainly leaves a question mark on his integrity.
		Rajapakse and Wickremesinghe to the ethnic conflict, in practical terms the chasm is not that wide.
	www.sangam.org /taraki/articles/2005/11-14_Mahinda_or_Ranil.php (1407 words)

	:: Daily Mirror on the Web - Front Page ::
		Rajapakse and the JHU was taken to the inner shrine room and placed before the Sacred Tooth Relic around 10.45 a.m.
		Rajapakse stressed that the Constitution enshrined provisions for the protection and sustenance of Buddhism while other religions would be given their due place and made aware their commitment to the country.
		Rajapakse because of his commitment to bring peace with honour to the country.
	www.dailymirror.lk /2005/09/14/front/1.asp (346 words)

	» Mahinda Rajapakse and human rights in Sri Lanka
		Mahinda’s “Panchabalavegaya” of Gotabhaya Rajapakse as Defence secy, Sarath Fonseka as Army commander, Kotakadeniya as Defence adviser, PTB Kohona as Peace secretariat chief and Rambukwella as Defence spokesperson, is helping to expose the true nature of this regime.
		Rajapakse may have appointed a minister to be in charge of human rights and Sri Lanka may be a member of the UN human rights council but Tamils in the Island are being deprived of their rights in a manner unsurpassed.
		Rajapakse may boast of a human rights charter in the making but when existing structures are not being utilised to uphold human rights it is a foregone conclusion that the envisaged charter would only be a worthless document.
	transcurrents.com /tamiliana/archives/327 (6928 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Mahinda Rajapakse becomes Sri Lanka's PM
		After hours of deliberations, the Sri Lankan president Monday appointed Mahinda Rajapakse to be the country's new prime minister.
		Mahinda Rajapakse becomes Sri Lanka's PM COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- After hours of deliberations, the Sri Lankan president Monday appointed Mahinda Rajapakse to be the country's new prime minister.
		Rajapakse is the 13th prime minister of Sri Lanka," Rajapakse's spokesman Rohan Weliwita said.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/04/05/mahinda_rajapakse_becomes_sri_lankas_pm?mode=PF (210 words)

	The Four Faces of Mahinda Rajapakse
		Rajapakse declares that he is prepared to give great devolution of powers to the Tamils.
		If anybody is under the impression that he is a moderate person and that the Buddhist Chauvinists who are his allies are pulling him towards them, they are sadly mistaken.
		His “Chintanas” - not the Mahinda Chindana he published before the Presidential election, but his real thoughts - are worse than those of the JVP or that of the JHU.
	sangam.org /taraki/articles/2006/06-24_Four_Faces.php?uid=1799 (1470 words)

	The Morning Leader : Politics Page
		Even as President Mahinda Rajapakse made moves to receive up to 16 dissident UNP members into government ranks, speculation was rife that government members furious at being sidelined in order to accommodate the rebels, would link with former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and the mainline UNP.
		In a face-saving move, Rajapakse was to therefore send word that he would not be inclined to take any crossers-over from the UNP if they were restored to their usual positions in the UNP and Karu Jayasuriya re-appointed as deputy leader of the party.
		Rajapakse’s thinking it is reliably learnt is that since Jayasuriya and his group had come forward to help him to bolster his flagging support in parliament he could not readily eschew their advances and their marriage proposals.
	www.themorningleader.lk /20070117/Politics.html (2396 words)

	South Asian Media Net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Percy Mahendra 'Mahinda' Rajapakse (born November 18, 1945) is the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and a Sri Lankan politician.
		Rajapakse was born to Sinhalese Buddhist parents in Weeraketiya in the southern rural District of Hambantota.
		Rajapakse was chosen in front of Anura Bandaranaike, brother of Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, as the Presidential Candidate of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party for the Presidential Election held on November 17, 2005.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/srilanka/srilanka_government.cfm (3019 words)

	Front Page
		Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapakse who visited Trincomalee for an extensive on-the-spot probe has warned that the security forces could become vulnerable because the state media was being used to demoralize them.
		Rajapakse said he had visited a refugee camp where for 13 years Muslim families were living in two Paddy Marketing Board warehouses and Muslim politicians appeared to be doing little for them.
		Rajapakse has proposed the development of the Trincomalee fort area as a tourist zone as it could then serve as a buffer zone to prevent clashes between government and LTTE forces.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /030928/front/mahinda.htm (292 words)

	Tamil Sydney - Mahinda Rajapakse Inc. a Barrier to Norway brokered Sri Lankan Peace Process
		Rajapakse, egged on by his brothers and hangers-on, is charting a course to catastrophe.
		Rajapakse and some of his minister’s insensitiveness and spiteful reactions, to the Mahaavirar speech, the solemn event, and its grave message for all Sri Lankans whose lives have been devastated for so long by the conflict, was typical of people who have no qualms about a country and people being scourged by the conflict.
		Rajapakse’s Chinthana is so far removed from the expectations of the Tamils that it would be like trying to square the circle for him to be embracing any part of the majority report.
	www.tamilsydney.com /content/view/213/37 (1959 words)

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