Not foreign conspiracies but our own failures

In his address to the nation on ‘Victory Day’ this month, President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s assertion that ‘grease demons’, the Independence of the Judiciary, media freedom and human rights were all part of sinister foreign conspiracies to bring the nation to its knees, calls for measured scrutiny. Somewhat bewilderingly meanwhile, a reference to ‘the Arab Spring’ [...]

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