Posted: 27-February-2010 at 3:21PM | IP Logged

General Fonseka was hailed as a national hero by Sri Lanka’s ethnic Sinhalese majority after the defeat of the Tigers ended the island’s 26-year civil war. But he soon fell out with President Rajapaksa, resigned from the army and joined the opposition to contest a presidential election on January 26. Mr Rajapaksa won that election but the general refused to accept the result and, a few days later, he was arrested by military police at his campaign headquarters.