`Terminator´ Rajapaksa storms to victory in Sri Lanka
(WorldNews Asia)

COLOMBO: Gotabaya Rajapakse, who spearheaded the brutal crushing of the Tamil Tigers 10 years ago, stormed to victory Sunday in Sri Lanka´s presidential elections, seven months after militant attacks killed 269 people. Rajapakse conducted a nationalist campaign with a promise of security and a vow to crush religious extremism in the Buddhist-majority country following the April 21 suicide bomb attacks blamed on a home-grown jihadi group. His triumph will, however, alarm Sri Lanka´s Tamil and Muslim minorities as well as activists, journalists and possibly some in the international community following the 2005-15 presidency of his older brother Mahinda Rajapakse. Mahinda, with Gotabaya...