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Sri Lanka arrests estranged ruling party MP amid deepening rift

March 17, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan police arrested on Saturday a government legislator who had accused his own ruling party of striking a secret deal with Tamil Tiger rebels, an official said. . Lawmaker Sripathi Sooriarachchi was arrested and taken before a magistrate who remanded him to judicial custody for two weeks, a police official said.

Sooriarachchi was accused of misusing a state-owned car just before he was fired as ports development minister on February 9 by President Mahinda Rajapakse.

Since being stripped of his ministerial position, the lawmaker has accused Rajapakse and his campaign managers of cutting a deal with Tamil Tiger rebels to block votes for his opposition presidential challenger in the 2005 election.

Rajapakse narrowly won the vote.


Tiger guerrillas enforced a ban on minority Tamils voting and analysts believe that the move probably cost opposition presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe the election.



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Wickremesinghe was friendly toward the Tamil minority. However, the Tigers had accused the opposition leader of trying to lay a "peace trap" to corner the guerrillas

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