UN snaps back
NEW YORK: The Sri Lanka government diplomatically steered UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan away from LTTE-controlled Mulliativu during his recent visit to Sri Lanka. But within its own precincts, the UN has obviously upstaged the Sri Lankan government.

In the UN bulletin board that displays photographs of visits by senior UN officials to the world's trouble spots, the focus this week is on Sri Lanka.

But of the 12 photographs on display, showing death and destruction, 10 are shots of Mullaitivu and one shot each of Jaffna and Point Pedro. Whatever happened to all the death and destruction in the south? Were the pictures of LTTE-controlled territory politically motivated by the big wigs at the UN or was it just plain dumb?

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