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Sarath Fonseka

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Sri Lankan senior army officer

PoliticiansBorn 1950 · age 75
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Field Marshal Gardihewage Sarath Chandralal Fonseka is a Sri Lankan retired army officer.

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Field Marshal Gardihewage Sarath Chandralal Fonseka is a Sri Lankan retired army officer. He was the eighteenth Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 2005 to 2009, and under his command the Sri Lankan Army ended the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, defeating the militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; he thereafter briefly served as the Chief of Defence Staff. After retiring from the Army with the rank of General, he entered politics as the common opposition candidate in the 2010 presidential election contesting against President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Born 1950 · age 75
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