COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament yesterday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's decision follows his sweeping victory at the polls last month over his former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka, who was arrested Monday on sedition charges.
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