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Sarath Fonseka
Field Marshal (Sri Lanka), Field Marshal Gardihewage Sarath Chandralal Fonseka (born 18 December 1950) is a Sri Lankan retired army officer. He was the eighteenth Commander of the Army (Sri Lanka), Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 2005 to 2009, and under his command the Sri Lanka Army, 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 the Defence Staff (Sri Lanka), Chief of Defence Staff.General G. S. C. Fonseka RWP RSP VSV USP rcds psc
, Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 29 March 2015
After retiring from the Army with the rank of General, he entered politics as the common opposition candidate in the 2010 Sri Lankan presidential election, 2010 presidential election conte ...
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