Sri Lanka: Battle Lines Drawn
| by Manik De Silva
( November 23, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The battle lines are drawn and the country now knows that after months of agonizing debate, discussion and, if truth be told, manipulation, the SLFP’s long-serving general secretary, former Health Minister Maitripala Sirisena, will be the so-called common opposition candidate against President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is seeking a third term. Insiders say that the government did not know until Thursday that Sirisena planned to cross the Rubicon.
