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No Sri Lankan newspaper as yet carried the full text
of the recent India Today interview with president Mahinda Rajapaksa
‘India should play a much bigger role’
With his brawny good looks, Mahinda Rajapaksa could easily
pass for a hero of South Indian films. He did, in fact, act in a
Sinhalese film but first chose law and then politics as his main
vocation. “If I had continued in films, I would have been another
Karunanidhi (the Tamil Nadu chief minister),” he joked, settling down
for an exclusive interview last week with Managing Editor Raj Chengappa
in Colombo.
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What is to be done?
The article published in the Sunday Observer of 13 August by
Professor Priyan Dias under the heading ‘Re-organising our Polarization
- Sinhala Responsibility Greater’ evoked this response. I feel that his
first-class civil engineering brain has grasped the essence of the
Sinhala-Tamil problem, and he has articulated it with admirable
lucidity.
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The Rajpal Abeynayake Column
The theory of the proxy wars tested
Is this island the territory for proxy wars between two Asian
powers — one that is undisputedly the regional giant, and the other a
good friend to the world’s only superpower? The proxy war theory has
long been a closet affair. But, this week saw a coming out of sorts.
Outgoing Pakistani High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Bashir Wali Mohamed
let rip. Said he that he suspects an Indian agency in the attempt on his
life that took place weeks ago on a busy Colombo street.
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Sampur’s imminent fall
SF commandos fight in 2.5 km Tiger territory, LTTE moving heavy weapons
from Sampur
Early this month, the Tigers directed a heavy volume of
artillery fire on the Trincomalee harbour. That was as a prelude to
simultaneous attacks on Mahindapura, Selvanagar,
Kattaparichchan, Pahalatopur military camps and the Mutur jetty.
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