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In the five years since Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government crushed a long-running separatist insurgency, he has worked methodically to cement his, and his family’s, control of the country’s politics.via: http://www.wsj.com/articles/sri-lankan-presidential-election-puts-political-system-to-vote-1420590270