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Crimes

- War Crimes and State Terrorism**

Sri Lankan government sources say the US government is seeking to question Sri Lanka’s military chief, General Sarath Fonseka, about alleged war crimes said to have been committed by the Sri Lankan army earlier this year. The military chief is currently on a visit to the US. But American officials have declined to confirm the accounts. The same US State Department Report named former High Ranking DFAT Official Dr Palitha Kohana in its detail brief of possible war crimes committed by government forces in the closing stages of their war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.247.65.233 (talk) 16:06, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think US has banned him from entering despite his dual citizenship status.

^[1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sankumaraya (talk • contribs) 22:32, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2016/06/19/no-us-visa-for-minister-fonseka/

Recent changes

This article was highly point of view and speculation. It as been changed and cleaned up, if you have issues with the changes please go to my talk page. Excuse me if there is some delay in the changes,(note the Wikibreak). --Sharz 07:58, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio

The original was a copyvio (amongst other things). User:Sharz fixed it up nicely, but that version has been replaced again by the copyvio. I've reveted back. -- Whpq 20:04, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The page was taked directly from the Sri Lankan army site which is copyrighted. http://army.lk/com.php --Whpq 20:05, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Army website specifically states

Reproduction of these stories/data is possible provided its source is given its recognition.

so copyvio is not an issue here. But the article does need to be Wikified hence I'm rv and readding the wikify tag. --snowolfD4^{( talk / @ )} 21:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you read under the edit box "Do not copy text from other websites without permission. It will be deleted.", besides that the article has alot of unesscicary, confused biased and unsourced infomation. Essentially what you've done is reverted an article from being wikified and neutral to be in copyright breach (because the source is not acknowledged anyway) and POV. --Sharz 12:09, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is most certainly a copyright violation. Please read WP:C. It has not been released under the GFDL. Qnd even if it were, as User:Sharz pointed out, the article content is not written from a neurtal point of view. -- Whpq 12:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please give reference

Snowolf please provide reference to the claims that you make. Specially the one which states "Pregnant LTTE suicide bomer". ThanksWatchdogb 23:30, 8 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Mr.Fonseka has to make sure that all the separatist, partisan elements are wiped out of lanka during the operations . No letback in the same. He has to take responsibility for any excape of extremists. It is his responsibility to capture and handover prabhakaran to India, no matter a civilian genocide comes in way.

You have no IDEA as to wuts going on in Sri Lanka. The same city lost almost 1000 people in less than two days because of genocide. If one or two of those people were ur parents, wut would u do? The LTTE is not a terrorist organization. They are fighting for freedom and civilian rights for over 30 years. Albertgenii12 (talk) 23:04, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why was this information removed?

it's fully referenced witha rs, please discuss this here.

Sinhala nationalism

In an interview to Canada’s National Post in September 2008, Sarath Fonseka had said he “strongly believed that Sri Lanka belongs to Sinhalese,” and that the other communities “must not try to, under the pretext of being a minority, demand undue things.”^[1] The above inforamtion is true. In an interview he remarked like that but now he wants to wins in the presidential election that is scheduled to be held on 26th January 2010. Now he needs to collect votes from Tamils. Therefore, now he says he did not make such remarks concerning minority groups living in Sri Lanka which is one of the biggest lies he has ever said. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Songkla123 (talk • contribs) 17:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://lrrp2.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/tamil-nadu-leaders-condemn-derogatory-talk-of-fonseka/

[edit] why was this information removed? - Not relevant

It has reference and that is fine, but what is the relevancy?? it is irrelevant hence shall be removed..

You may have a whole new section (I mean a new wiki page) to publish Commander's interview details as there going to have many interesting comments coming out of him these days.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by C nirosh (talk • contribs) 09:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Is there an explanation for his portuguese name? Or is it a singhalese one?--Severino (talk) 17:57, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

answered on my talk page, thank you.--Severino (talk) 05:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Neutrality

Guys honestly I don't think this article is biased. I am following the Sri Lankan politics since 2004. The incidents happening in Sri Lanka is very hard to believe for a person outside. After the presidential elections, Mr Fonseka was arrested from the hotel where he was staying during the elections. At that time even the Western media houses reported about the army officers staying in the hotel with Fonseka. The plans of Fonseka to arrest Rajapaksa and his brothers if he win the elections was also reported by some media. Things that are hard to believe should not be categorized as biased opinions.Rameshnta909 (talk) 11:55, 18 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article Improved

Added additional citations to the article where ever it is necessary. The news or reports from established media sources should be considered as reliable sources even though it is speculative in nature. These should be included in the article. I did my level best to make the article look neutral. Maintenance templates are removed since it is no longer required.Rameshnta909 (talk) 20:34, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nonexistent infobox fields

Can we please stop adding fields that don't exist in the infobox template? I've noticed this happening a lot on Lankan articles, where people seem to be desperate to tell other people what religion a certain individual is, for instance. Your adding the fields "religion", "other names" and"profession", fields that don't even exist on the infobox template, will not make them magically appear on the page. All it does is throw up multiple errors on the edit page. Please, for the love of god, stop doing this. - ක - (talk) 10:39, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The fields may have existed in the past. I know this is the case with religion and ethnicity fields which were removed even though they were in use in thousands of articles. The profession field can be used with infobox officeholder but not infobox person.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:12, 7 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] ttp://www.thesundayleader.lk/2016/06/19/no-us-visa-for-minister-fonseka/

[2] ttp://lrrp2.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/tamil-nadu-leaders-condemn-derogatory-talk-of-fonseka/

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