The Man Who Tamed The Tamil Tigers

Photo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the interview in Colombo with TIME on July 10. Namas Bhojani for TIME

From Time Magazine:

Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' fearsome leader. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the man who tamed the Tigers. Now his task is to heal a nation still divided by tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. In a rare, wide-ranging interview, Rajapaksa, 63, talked with TIME's Jyoti Thottam at the President's official compound in Colombo on July 10.

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My Comment: This is a blunt interview from Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa. He definitely comes across as a War President.