Rarely has a government soiled its reputation as dramatically as Sri Lanka's. In recent months President Mahinda Rajapaksa's regime has won a war and lost the love of many allies.rnIts alleged wartime and other abuses make a grim catalogue: thousands of Tamil civilians allegedly killed by army shelling during the rebels' last stand; scores of Tamils disappeared; nearly 300,000 Tamil war-displaced callously interned; murder and intimidation of journalists-including J.S. Tissainayagam, sentenced to 20 years hard labour on August 31st for criticising the army's tactics (see page 70).
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