In the Kingdom of Hell, the Court of King Kekille was in session. The King noticed there was a sudden increase in the number of cases due to be heard before him. He summoned his Court Mudliyar to find out why.
The IMF has indicated satisfaction at the country’s economic performance. The IMF mission’s first review of the Sri Lankan economy after the granting of the Stand-By facility appears to be one of approval of the government’s measures thus far.
The government may have scored a victory by militarily defeating the LTTE, but its behaviour in the aftermath has left it open to criticism not only from the Opposition in Parliament but from other quarters as well.
When journalists were repeatedly indicted by the Attorney General (AG) on charges of criminal defamation in the nineteen nineties and earlier, would the AG have been persuaded to withdraw indictment if citizens had written to him asking him to consider clemency on the basis that these journalists had rendered good service to the country?
