COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan state television reports that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has won re-election in a hard-fought contest against his former army chief.
Rupavahini television reported Wednesday that Rajapaksa decisively beat Sarath Fonseka.
The election pitted two men considered war heroes by the Sinhalese majority for winning the country’s quarter-century civil war.
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