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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nismok" data-source="post: 6566012" data-attributes="member: 109094">COLOMBO — Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka  denied on Saturday he was seeking political asylum abroad, but said  several countries had asked Colombo to stop harassing him.Fonseka,  who lost Tuesday's presidential election to the incumbent, Mahinda  Rajapakse, said his security detail had been withdrawn, leaving him open  to assassination, while supporters and party workers were being  arrested en masse."They are holding about 20 of my party  workers," Fonseka told reporters in Colombo. He said his party office  was raided by police commandos who had also taken away his computers and  vehicles.Fonseka dismissed Australian media reports that he was  considering political asylum, but said Britain, the European Union,  India and the United States had asked Rajapakse to ensure his safety and  security, to no avail."This government won't listen to anyone,"  said Fonseka.Fonseka holds permanent US residency. But in  November he cut short a US visit to avoid questioning by the Department  of Homeland Security about alleged war crimes against Tamil civilians.Fonseka  had earlier agreed to be questioned, but the Sri Lankan government said  it feared he would be asked to provide evidence against Defence  Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, the president's younger brother.Fonseka  said the government had crippled his political headquarters to prevent  his party collecting evidence to mount a legal challenge seeking the  annulment of the election result.He said the military had purged  several senior officers who worked with him in his former role as head  of the army.AFP<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5jY3O6pY8jNpR6BPiUro39mUiwbPQ?size=l" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Sri Lanka's former army  chief and defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka</blockquote>

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