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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coolkasun" data-source="post: 17617483" data-attributes="member: 123068">Betrayal After Dinner Makes Sri Lanka Election Race Personal <img src="http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iXViMS.NFcC4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Crispy rice pancakes and spicy salad, both traditional Sri Lankan dishes, were on the menu the night of Nov. 19 when President Mahinda Rajapaksa dined with long-time ally and cabinet member Maithripala Sirisena.  Two days later, Sirisena vowed to end Rajapaksa’s decade-long rule in a Jan. 8 presidential election. The betrayal shook up the island nation, which has undergone a growth spurt since Rajapaksa oversaw the end of a 26-year civil war in 2009.  “Can you trust a person of that nature and hand over the responsibilities of president?” Rajapaksa, 69, asked at a Dec. 14 campaign rally in the tea-growing central highlands, referring to Sirisena’s defection. see more[CODE]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-23/betrayal-after-dinner-makes-sri-lanka-presidential-race-personal.html[/CODE]</blockquote>

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