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Field Marshal Gardihewa Sarath Chandralal Fonseka (born 18 December 1950) is a retired Sri Lankan army officer. He was the eighteenth Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, and under his command the Sri Lankan Army ended the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009, defeating the militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; he thereafter briefly ...
General Sarath Fonseka was considered a national hero [11] for bringing an end to the Sri Lankan Civil War while serving as commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 2005 to 2009. However, following the military victory, tensions grew between President Rajapaksa and Fonseka, who later accused Rajapaksa of sidelining him after the end of the conflict.
Sarath Fonseka (73) Independent: 5th Chief of the Defence Staff (2009) Former Minister of Regional Development (2016–2018), Minister of Wildlife and Sustainable Development (2018) 18th Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (2005–2009) Gampaha: Declared 25 July 2024; Previously ran in 2010. [37] Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe (65) National Democratic Front
Sarath Fonseka, 73 A former army chief, Fonseka oversaw the end of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war. He is a member of Premadasa's SJB but the two have recently drifted apart.
On 9 February Sarath Fonseka took oath as a member of parliament for the seat vacated by the death of M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana giving the party a seat in the Parliament. On 30 July Sarath Fonseka obtained membership of United National Party and Democratic party was dissolved accordingly.
[321] [322] Senior diplomats who had returned to Sri Lanka to support the Rajapaksa election campaign left the country on the same day. [323] Two of aides of Sarath Fonseka, Major General Mahesh Senanayake and Brigadier Duminda Keppetiwalana, who had fled Sri Lanka after the 2010 presidential election, returned to Sri Lanka on 10 January 2015 ...
UPFA. Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 8 and 20 April 2010, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka 's 14th Parliament. [ 1] 14,088,500 Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election at 11,102 polling stations. It was the first general election to be held in Sri Lanka following the conclusion of the civil war which lasted 26 years.
White Flag case. The White Flag Case is a court case in which the former Sri Lankan Army chief Sarath Fonseka was prosecuted for an interview which he gave to Frederica Jansz, editor of the Sunday Leader, in which he is stated to have said that surrendering Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres were executed and not allowed to ...