Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa says his party's election victory in the country's war-torn Eastern Province on Saturday is a clear mandate to push ahead with his war against the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north.
The region, once home to several Tamil Tiger enclaves, was brought under government control after heavy fighting last year. Opposition parties and monitoring rights groups, however, complained of widespread irregularities in the polls, including harassment by Tamil Tiger defectors. The government boasted that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who are fighting for a separate state in the north and east, had suffered a major blow by failing to derail the elections.
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