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General Fonseka set to face Sri Lanka military trial Updated - 16/3/2010 - bbc.co.uk.
Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate and ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka is set to face a court martial. Mr Fonseka will be tried by a military tribunal on charges of participating in politics while in office and violating military procurement procedures. He says the charges are politically motivated and an attempt to stop him contesting April’s parliamentary polls. Gen Fonseka was arrested by the army last month. He lost to incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January. Protests against his arrest and court martial have been held in Colombo. Gen Fonseka was in charge of Sri Lanka’s army when it defeated the Tamil Tiger rebels last year after 25 years of civil war. But he and President Rajapaksa fell out over who should take credit for the victory - and both fought the presidential election boasting of their roles in the war. Officials have also accused Gen Fonseka of plotting a coup and the assassination of President Rajapaksa - charges he denies - but those accusations will not figure at the court martial.
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