It was a week of dramatic developments. For President Mahinda Rajapaksa who has put a separatist war behind and a re-election bid ahead, the focus was all three - military, political and economic - as he charted a new, concerted course to usher in a greater peacetime environment and a new image for his Government.
I thought I must write to you since you had also written to all members of the blue party alleging that there was a huge conspiracy within the party. Quite frankly, Avamangala, apart from getting you a few headlines the following day, I cannot imagine what you would achieve by all this.
The recommendation of the 2006 Commission to Investigate Serious Human Rights Violations (the Udalagama Commission in short) that a permanent Commission should be established to investigate violations is by far, the most remarkably asinine recommendation that one has been privileged to witness in recent years.
When American politicians are confronted with a thorny problem in their home town, they tend to do the most predictable thing in politics: throw money at it.
