Talk:Mahinda Rajapaksa

Neutrality

This article is becoming against the pereson in question, see its recent history.--Happyhaydn 13:43, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Moving

I moved Mahinda Rajapakse to Mahinda Rajapaksa because that's how his official website refers to him. see http://www.primeminister.gov.lk/. Greenleaf 07:05, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Has he changed his name or its transliteration? There is still 10 times more hits in google for Rajapakse than Rajapaksa... aegis maelstrom δ 00:21, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Kadirgamar WAS a Member of Parliament. 220.247.240.241 14:25, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

test jbhv 68.162.208.246 22:28, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Is he president AND prime minister at the moment? Adam 01:29, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Acting career?

It is surprising to see that nothing is available in the article about his acting career. I am just mentioning the fact and a ref in the article, with the hope that it would be expanded later. --Gurubrahma 17:20, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Added reference and removed POV tag

Shortened the paragraph about the alledged diverted fund, added a BBC link and thus removed the POV tag - should be more balanced now I believe. Ulflarsen 14:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Human Rights Abuse Section

Added section on human right abuses since the President Mahinda Rajapakse coming to power. US State Department, Human Rights Watch, The UN, Reporters without Borders, SLMM, Asian Human Rights Commission all have reported on the gross human rights violations by the new regime. Can't argue all of these organizations noted above have a biased point of view including the UN. I am sure not everyone is going to like this but, these are credible sources, with credible allegations including countries and organizations considered friends/strong allies of Lanka.

Trincomanb 02:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Human Rights abuses

The article should not start with this section. Even Hitler's article doesn't start with the Holocaust! Should start with a bio, history in government, etc., then these abuses. Starting with this is clearly biases the article.

I have moved the abuses section to the end as has been suggested.

Trincomanb 11:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

SLMM Statement

Ulf Henricsson said the following in an interview to govt. owned Sunday Observer (May 7th 2006), quoted by Tamilnet [1]:

Speaking on the controversy surrounding SLMM's press release which "charged the SLA of extra-judicial killing," and later "toning down of the statement" after discussions with Colombo, the Retired General said, "we still feel that [security forces are involved with extra-judicial killing]." He then added that after talking to Colombo, "we hedged that avoiding going back on the issue."

"We never said it was security force as a whole, we think there are parts of it, small groups or individuals, we don't know. That is why we said individuals belonging to the security forces are involved. Involved, does not mean they have done it. But they have not done anything to prevent it. They have not seen anything. They have not heard anything that is a problem. If you can commit a murder one hundred meters from the check point and if they don't see anything, don't feel anything, that is a cause for concern. That is the problem," Henricsson explained.

Trincomanb 22:41, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

He is of Karave caste ?

User Supermod (1. He is from the GOVI caste. And caste is not important in this world, may be except for tamils. 2. Human rights? He has to defend the country as the president from the terrorists. Discuss on talk p) The above comment is propagandist very least and racist if not. Caste is of very important factor is Sri lankan politics. The Politics of New Sinhalese of South Indian origin versus traditional Sinhalese has been commented upon by sociologists who study Sri Lanka. Because his last name is that of Soldiers of ertswhile kingdoms shared by many coastal New Sinhalese from South India who are very active in Sinhala nationalistic politics as observed216.95.23.114 03:48, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

He is of the Karawe caste and should be proud of it. He is the saviour of low caste people. We want him for that. Mahinda Rajapakse is from the karave caste.