keheliya nad mahinda

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse (R) and Senior Minister Keheliya Rambukwella (C) share a light moment during a visit to the island’s tallest communication tower in the northern town of Kokuvil. Sri Lanka’s president has cited constitutional immunity and refused to go before a US court where he is being sued for USD30 million over the killing of a Tamil man, an official said. A US-based Tamil lobby had filed the case claiming damages from him as commander-in-chief of Sri Lankan armed forces for the killing of Raghiar Manoharan, a member of Sri Lanka’s ethnic Tamil minority. (AFP)