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  • Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected in 2005 to win the war outright, and he succeeded in the most brutal fashion: by abducting or killing journalists and lawyers to silence the media, even as he conducted a counterinsurgency campaign that had no moral qualms about the deaths of the thousands of Tamil civilians that the Tamil Tigers were using as human shields.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Instead, the government of Mahinda Rajapakse returned to its traditional friends and allies: Japan, China and Pakistan and, to some extent, India.

    Ru Freeman: A Few Peas Short of a Full Pod: Hillary Clinton & Tamil Nadu's Jayalalitha Ru Freeman 2011

  • It is believed that Indian emperor Ashoka's son Mahinda introduced Buddhism in neighboring Sri Lanka, now one of the few remaining Buddhist countries in South

    India Woos Sri Lanka With Buddha's Bones Josh Fleet 2011

  • It is believed that Indian emperor Ashoka's son Mahinda introduced Buddhism in neighboring Sri Lanka, now one of the few remaining Buddhist countries in South

    India Woos Sri Lanka With Buddha's Bones Josh Fleet 2011

  • Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected in 2005 to win the war outright, and he succeeded in the most brutal fashion: by abducting or killing journalists and lawyers to silence the media, even as he conducted a counterinsurgency campaign that had no moral qualms about the deaths of the thousands of Tamil civilians that the Tamil Tigers were using as human shields.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected in 2005 to win the war outright, and he succeeded in the most brutal fashion: by abducting or killing journalists and lawyers to silence the media, even as he conducted a counterinsurgency campaign that had no moral qualms about the deaths of the thousands of Tamil civilians that the Tamil Tigers were using as human shields.

    Buddha’s Savage Peace 2009

  • Rajapaksa, who worked closely with Fonseka on the aggressive military strategy that crushed the Tigers and who is the brother of the president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, told the BBC's Hardtalk programme that the general had proved himself to be a liar and a traitor.

    Sri Lankan government threatens to execute Sarath Fonseka Stephen Sackur 2010

  • We must conclude that Fa-hien, when in Ceylon, heard neither of Mahinda nor Sanghamitta.

    A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms 2003

  • I am the priest Mahinda from the vihara of Tuparama.

    The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

  • It did not look like any work of man, and it reminded the king of the still greater mountains he had glimpsed in his youth, when he had been half-guest, half-hostage at the court of Mahinda the Great.

    The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

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