Sri Lankans will be treated to a sparkling spectacle today. They will see live on television and hear on radio how their elected representatives to Parliament create history. Like some of the movies, it will be a political blockbuster, richly packed with plots of treachery, skullduggery, betrayal and pure bootlicking.
Two Sri Lanka Navy Fast Attack Craft (FACs), on a routine patrol off the north eastern seas, were the first to observe a flotilla of Sea Tiger boats. It was just past 3 p.m. on Sunday off the coast of Vettilaikerni.
Last week, we dealt with the misleading statistics of economic growth. As a nation we appear to clutch at any evidence that gives us a sense of satisfaction and consequently a good reason not to take any measures to improve ourselves.
It took Norwegians themselves to expose the insidious manoeuvrings of their government in promoting terrorism under cover of bringing peace to a troubled land.
In the last column, the constitution of the eight member Presidential Commission of Inquiry, (the Commission), established by the Government of Sri Lanka last year in order to probe into fifteen selected incidents of extra judicial killings and other grave human rights violations, was examined. The Commission will begin sittings in early February.
Perhaps one of the political realities of the United Nations is that no member state — with the rare exception of Nepal last week — wants its domestic problems hung out to dry in the chambers of the Security Council.
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2007 Wijeya
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