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"Like most ethnic Tamils on this island nation, he cannot even imagine voting for the current president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, a man who solidified his power base by crushing a brutal Tamil insurgency and then largely ignored Tamil demands to heal the wounds of the decades-long civil war."via: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/sri-lankas-tamils-say-theyll-back-presidents-challenger/2015/01/07/9694d05a-964b-11e4-8385-866293322c2f_story.html