Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa visits Tamil city Jaffna
[ BBC ] - [ Apr 01, 2010 10:01:06 GMT ]Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is due to make a rare visit to the cultural capital of the country's Tamil minority, the northern city of Jaffna. It comes a week before parliamentary elections which the president's ruling coalition is widely expected to win. But the signs are that in Jaffna the president, who belongs to the Sinhalese majority, is not popular. This is a follow-up to his historic visit in January - his first since defeating the Tamil Tiger insurgency. [ full story ]
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