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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nismok" data-source="post: 6571674" data-attributes="member: 109094">COLOMBO — Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has transferred  several senior military officers loyal to the former army general who he  defeated in elections, a military source said Sunday.Rajapakse  ordered a shake-up of the military to remove Sarath Fonseka's supporters  from key roles after Fonseka's failed bid to win the presidency in  Tuesday's vote, the official said on condition of anonymity."Several  seniors who were very close to General Fonseka have been removed from  sensitive positions," he said.Army spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara  confirmed the transfers, including the removal of a top major general  who was given an administrative job, but he declined to explain the  moves.Rajapakse's government had accused Fonseka of planning a  coup in the event of losing the election.Police raided Fonseka's  political headquarters on Friday and arrested several retired army  officers who had been working for him.Fonseka said the government  had targeted his office to prevent his party from collecting evidence  to mount a legal challenge to the election result.Rajapakse won  58 percent of the vote, trouncing Fonseka, who got 40 percent, after a  contest that many had expected to be much closer.Rajapakse called  the election four years into his six-year term to capitalise on popular  support for the defeat of Tamil rebels in May that ended a decades-long  separatist war.    Copyright ©  2010   AFP. All  rights reserved.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/media/ALeqM5izJbGXqLJOQPMlTY_FWldXRSk8TA?size=l" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Rajapakse's government had  accused Fonseka of planning a coup in the event of losing the election</blockquote>

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