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Colonel R. Hariharan

Retired Military Intelligence specialist on South Asia, served with the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka as Head of Intelligence. He is associated with the Chennai Centre for China Studies and the South Asia Analysis Group.

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Sri Lanka : Did Rajapaksa frustrate the coup d’état or did he engineer it?

by Colonel R. Hariharan

New Dehli (India) | 9 February 2010

General Sarath Fonseka, former commander of the Sri Lanka Army and unsuccessful presidential candidate at the recent elections, was detained on 8 February 2010. In the immediate aftermath, re-elected president Mahinda Rajapaksa dissolved parliament. Colonel R. Hariharan, retired (...)