by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
( October 6, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s repeated claim, (pronounced with appropriate gravitas most recently to Al Jazeera), is that Sri Lanka does not exhibit authoritarian or dictatorial tendencies as it holds regular elections at which his government is comfortably elected into power.
Unitary nature of the State never disputed
