There’s good news and bad news
By placing the issue of Tiger terrorism
front and centre before the two largest audiences available in
international politics (UN General assembly, NAM summit) as well as in
numerous bilateral meetings and multilateral forums, hammering home the
truth of LTTE aggression and the quintessentially defensive character of
Sri Lanka’s military response, reiterating his commitment to a
multiethnic, multi religious, multi cultural country and a political
solution based on maximum devolution of power, President Mahinda
Rajapaksa has done his duty by the people and the armed forces, and more
forthrightly than any of his predecessors.
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The Rajpal Abeynayake Column
The Chaura Regina and her chagrined biographer
Victor Ivan’s book ‘Chaura Regina’ sold at the rate of two per minute at
its Colombo international Book Fair release.
Talk about good timing.
Ivan’s bombshells pack more plastic explosives than the ones he
describes. He pinch hits, and gets into the stride of his attack
frenetically and in the first fifteen overs.
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Delhi’s snubs and signals to India’s utmost Isle
The TNA MPs, LTTE’s parliamentary pollution
neutralizers in Colombo, were rendered untouchables in New Delhi. Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh would not grant them an audience after they had
been camping out for weeks in Delhi hoping for one. He snubbed them, the
‘bad Tamils’, with his left hand.
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