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Various of election rally for United National Party (UNP) presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe 2. Wide of security at rallyFILE: Colombo, Sri Lanka - August 15, 20053. SOUNDBITE: (English)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eColombo, Sri Lanka - November 14, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of election rally for United National Party (UNP) presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide of security at rally\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo, Sri Lanka - August 15, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mahinda Rajapakse, Sri Lankan Prime Minister: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Their (Tamil Tigers') aim is to divide our country and destroy our democratic way of life to which we stand firmly committed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Buddhist monks listening\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo, Sri Lanka - July 12, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of opposition's United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at public rally \u003cbr/\u003e6. Wickremesinghe waving at supporters \u003cbr/\u003e7. Old woman waving green UNP flag \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 11, 2003\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wickremesinghe with Norwegian deputy foreign minister and peace envoy Vidar Helgesan \u003cbr/\u003e9. Norwegian delegation coming out of Wickremesinghe's residence \u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, India - November 11, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor S.D. Muni, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Peace is the real issue, that is what the question is, which is related to ethnic conflict and ethnic formations within the Sinhalese because some of the extremist groups have decided to back up the present Prime Minister Mr. Rajapakse. So the real issue is of peace. How do you look at the Tamil question and how do you resolve the Tamil question. And I think there has been a hardening of the positions on both the extremities, both in the LTT (Tamil Tigers) as also in the Sinhala (Buddhist) extremists.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Kandy, Sri Lanka - June 9 , 2005 \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Buddhist temple \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot of Buddhist monks at sit-in protest against proposal to share tsunami aid with Tamil Tiger rebels \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo, Sri Lanka - August 8, 2005 \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of protest by Sri Lankan Marxist political party against proposal to share tsunami aid with Tamil Tiger rebels   \u003cbr/\u003e14. Protestors chanting \u003cbr/\u003eColombo, Sri Lanka - 14 November 2005\u003cbr/\u003e15. Poster of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse at election rally\u003cbr/\u003e16. Cutaway of Rajapakse at rally\u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, India - November 11, 2005 \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor S.D. Muni, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"He (referring to Rajapakse) has aligned himself with the extremist Buddhist monks and the extremist JVP (Marxist party). And both of them are for a unitary character of the state, which is also part of his election manifesto and they do not want to really accommodate the Tamils.\"  \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Northern rebel territory, Sri Lanka - October 2002\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various of female Tamil Tigers at parade \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Northern rebel territory, Sri Lanka - February 22, 2002\u003cbr/\u003e19. Leader of Tamil Tigers, Prabhakaran, signing cease fire agreement \u003cbr/\u003eColombo, Sri Lanka - 14 November 2005\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide shot of supporters waving flags\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid shot of supporters\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (Sinhalese) Ranil Wickremesinghe, presidential candidate: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We must build our country by protecting territorial integrity and equally serve all nationalities.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close-up of presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe \u003cbr/\u003eNew Delhi, India - November 11, 2005\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor S.D. Muni, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now, if the Tamil votes don't come to Ranil, Ranil has an uphill task - he cannot win, this is my guess. If part of the Tamil votes come to him and if some Sinhalese votes get neutralised, there is still a possibility that Ranil may win. But I think it is a very dicey situation. It's extremely difficult to predict this election.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Colombo, Sri Lanka - August 15, 2005 \u003cbr/\u003e25. Various of people and traffic on street  \u003cbr/\u003eAs Sri Lanka prepares to elect a new president on Thursday, the key election issue remains forging peace with the Tamil Tiger rebels, in an election widely seen as a referendum on the country's faltering peace process.\u003cbr/\u003eThe two main contenders in the 17 November poll -  Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe -  offer widely divergent views on how to end an insurgency fought in the name of Tamil rights.\u003cbr/\u003eCurrently in the prime ministerial chair, Mahinda Rajapakse of Sri Lanka's governing party and a self-described \"proud son of Sri Lanka,\" has campaigned on the simple message that his country must remain whole.\u003cbr/\u003eTo demands by the rebel Tamil Tigers for autonomy in their strongholds, Rajapakse says he will never give in. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Their (Tamil Tigers') aim is to divide our country and destroy our democratic way of life,\" Rajapakse said earlier this year.  \u003cbr/\u003eInstead, he's promised to deliver what could be described as an uncompromising peace.\u003cbr/\u003eRajapakse has secured the support of hard-line Marxists and Buddhist monks by pledging to review the peace process and not to share political power or aid for victims of last year's tsunami with the Tigers.\u003cbr/\u003eHis populist messages also appear to have won him wide support among the country's Sinhalese majority, putting him neck-and-neck with opposition contender Ranil Wickremesinghe.\u003cbr/\u003eWickremesinghe is overwhelmingly supported by Sri Lanka's Tamil and Muslim minorities.\u003cbr/\u003eThe former prime minister, who brokered a 2002 truce with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is seen by many as best placed to cement a lasting peace. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has offered the rebels devolution of power. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We must build our country by protecting territorial integrity and equally serve all nationalities,\" Wickremesinghe said 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