Yesterday marked the first month since Sri Lanka’s security forces won a historic victory destroying the military capability of Tiger guerrillas and paving the way for the Government’s writ to run countrywide.
The Sri Lanka Cricket team that got into the semi-finals of the ICC Twenty 20 World Cup has been warned about taking for granted the remaining match in the semi final and if they win it, the finals.
The winding up of the 2006 Udalagama Commission of Inquiry this week without any further extensions being granted and with many investigations still in the air, is peculiarly appropriate to its circumstances. This abrupt closure is therefore quite unsurprising to those of us who, in fact, predicted such an end to this initiative.
The message coming out of the UN is brutally simple: the developing world is being called upon to pay for most of the sins of the industrialized world.
