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Ex-army chief calls for Arab Spring in Lanka | Former Sri Lankan army chief General Sarath Fonseka
has said that he will lead an Arab Spring-style uprising in his country to force the government from office. Fonseka, who was jailed for running as an opposition
candidate, launched a bitter attack on President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whom he accused
of persecuting his family and terrorising opponents, and pledged a new campaign
to topple his government. "I'm definitely asking people to rise up, and overthrow
the government by democratic methods," The Telegraph quoted him, as saying. Fonseka,
who was released from jail in May following pressure from the U.S. denounced his
former commander-in-chief as a 'dictator' and called on the international community
to 'de-recognise' the government. Fonseka also slammed British Prime Minister
David Cameron for meeting Rajapaksa at a Jubilee lunch in London last month and
said the international community must instead isolate his government to stop its
abuses. "[They should] derecognise the government and give protection to the people...if
there is a dictator violating human rights and the democracy of the people, I
think the world will have to take care of that," the paper quoted him, as saying.
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