Yakkala, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Elderly ladies with canes hobble up to the line in the scorching sun. They stand alongside voters half their age at a polling station just outside the Sri Lankan capital.
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Some people may celebrate Jan. 26, 2010, at Sri Lanka's first post–civil war presidential election — the island nation ended the 26-year-long conflict last May — but the advent of the poll has brought out deep [...]

Rejected Nomination – Sri Lanka Progressive Front (3) Poll date 26th January 2010 . Nomination Gazette 1629/21 of 27.11.2009, Nomination of Candidates will take place from 9.00 a.m. to 11 a.m. on the 17.12.2009, at the Elections …

On the eve of the Presidential Elections 2010 , I realised no matter how busy my schedule I must return to my blog to write this post. As a Sri Lankan studying abroad, I currently have no way to exercise my vote however as a Sri Lankan …

View Presidential Elections – January 2010 (Violence during campaign) in a larger map. Indrajit goes on to show how Facebook and

Sri Lanka Presidential elections will be held on January 26th, 2010 . Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka are two major candidates. Fonseka birthdate is on December 18, 1950 and Rajapaksa birthdate is on 18 November 1945. …

Elections Chief Dayananda Dissanayake said that people who cast their vote at Tuesday’s presidential election should not fall for fake ballot papers, currently being circulated in several areas in the country.
Commissioner Dissanayake told a media [...]

Guidelines on voting
Presidential Election – January 26, 2010:

There are 22 symbols on the ballot paper. The names and symbols of candidates appear against their respective symbols. Voters could mark one cross against the symbol of [...]

Coming less than a year after the end of the country’s long and brutal civil war,

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AFP Western countries work to a plan to force an annulment of the Presidential … Asian Tribune Already the Western countries with their local agent in Sri Lanka are moving ahead to force the Commissioner of Elections Dayananda Dissanayake to announce … Sri Lanka's presidential election Between a rock and a hard man Economist Fonseka camp's fears dismissed The Hindu Sri Lanka prepares to vote Aljazeera.net (blog) Sri Lanka Guardian

In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, a Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil war refugee, front, looks on as children play outside their shelter at a resettled village in the former administrative capital of the [...]

It was my firm belief that if Sri Lanka is to progress in an unprecedented way it would be led by either one of the two main political parties of Sri Lanka, UNP or SLFP. [...]

January 21, 2010 . A protest against the biased, unethical conduct of state media in relation to the upcoming Presidential Elections , as well as their rejection of orders and guidelines of the Supreme Court and Elections Commissioner, was held on Thursday, 21st January 2010 , at 12 noon, … Herbert Kumara Alagiyawanna; -Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Trade Union Alliance Sanjeewa Samarasinghe; – Jathika Seveka Sangamaya, Lake House Sunil Jayasekera; – Free Media Movement …

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 … It is under these circumstances that the presidential elections are to be held this month. The two leading presidential candidates are the current president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and the main opponent candidate , Sarath Fonseka, the former Sri Lankan army commander actively instrumental in fighting the Tamil Tigers in the recent past. Democratic elections in a failed state. Although a universal definition on democracy is not available, …

The motivation behind international interests is primarily for having militarily defeated the LTTE, thereby eliminating the means that they could have used to leverage the restructuring of the Sri Lankan state. …

18 January 2010 . AI Index: PRE01/011/ 2010 . Amnesty International calls on all candidates standing in Sri Lanka’s Presidential elections on January 26th to end widespread human rights violations and the culture of impunity that continues …

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