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...typical hot, balmy day when protesters supporting Sarath Fonseka, the retired general and defeated presidential candidate now under arrest and facing court-martial, gathered near the Supreme Court complex in the capital, Colombo, on Wednesday...
...Fonseka was arrested by military police at his home in Colombo on the night of Feb. 8 on charges of plotting to overthrow the government while still in service, harboring army deserters, and corruption. The arrest was the culmination of two weeks of tension and charge-trading between the government and Fonseka camps. On Jan. 26, hundreds of armed troops surrounded Fonseka and his team inside a five-star hotel in Colombo on the eve of the election. The government has declined to disclose where the general is being held, citing security reasons, though his family and lawyers have been...
...protest, however fiery, is unlikely set off any tremors. Colombo was back to business soon after the protest was over. The traffic was once again bad, the buses were belching, and the heat unbearable. Die-hard Fonseka supporters have vowed to continue the protests, which have yet to gain the support of wider civil-society groups. "We will go on. We will not stop till our general is given back to us," Vinni Siegera, a middle-aged woman who had attended the rally without an invitation, told TIME, beads of sweat on her forehead. The next few days will make...
...arrest follows two weeks of drama that began with Fonseka and his close aides moving into a posh Colombo hotel during the evening of Jan. 26, election day. The hotel was soon surrounded by military. Fonseka complained that there was a threat to his life and that the government was limiting his movements. Authorities claimed that security had been increased around the hotel as a precaution, although several former military officers working on the Fonseka campaign were arrested as they left the hotel. The drama ended late in the evening on Jan. 27 when Fonseka finally left the hotel, although...
...Fonseka's arrest is likely to fuel opposition protests that have remained lukewarm until now. The opposition held a protest rally in Colombo on Feb. 3 in which Fonseka participated. Opposition parties had vowed to continue with protests even before the arrest...