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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dimu999" data-source="post: 9853828" data-attributes="member: 322324">Age: 65  Occupation: President of Sri Lanka  Previous TIME 100 appearances: 0  Since ending Sri Lanka's 26-year-long war against the Tamil  Tigers in 2009, and grabbing control over once independent institutions  like commissions on human rights and elections, Mahinda Rajapaksa has  come to dominate the institutions of his nation more than any other  democratically elected head of state. He challenged the U.S., the  European Union and the U.N. to prosecute him for war crimes, confident  that Russia, China and India would not support it — the latter two have  billions of investment at stake in Sri Lanka. Read more: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044_2060338_2060246,00.html%20#ixzz1JSm9PkUp" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058044_2060338_2060246,00.html #ixzz1JSm9PkUp</a> </blockquote>

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