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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 ...
Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [ 1][ 2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate. [ 3][ 4][ 5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
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 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.
Sarath Fonseka, the former commander of the Sri Lanka Army, and candidate of the 2010 presidential election who was quoted in the article, initially denied the story, but The Sunday Leader subsequently refuted the denial. The story resulted in Fonseka being charged with ""propagating a false rumour", a violation of emergency regulations.
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 ...
Anoma Fonseka. Anoma Indumathi Fonseka ( née Munasinghe) is the wife of former commander of the Sri Lanka Army and politician, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka. [1] She is also the former outgoing president of Seva Vanitha Army Branch, a position she held from 2005 to 2009. [2] She was appointed the chairperson of the Ranaviru Seva Authority by ...