It was near midnight last Saturday when a loud explosion rocked the home of human rights lawyer and anti-corruption activist Chrishantha Weliamuna at Dutugemunu Street in Kohuwala.
The Army's 57 Division is still poised to re-capture Kilinochchi, until recent weeks the centre of political power of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
So the UK wants to send food aid to the besieged people of the Wanni bypassing the Sri Lanka government. That is if the minister in charge of the Department for International Development (DfID) Shahid Malik has been correctly quoted by the British Tamils Forum in its media release.
Henry David Thoreau argued in one of his most provoking essays appropriately labelled "Civil Disobedience" that, if enough people would follow their conscience and disobey an unjust ruler or unfair rules, they could bring about a peaceful revolution.
As the US continues to face the threat of an economic meltdown with an impending $700 billion bailout of faltering banks and financial institutions, the cynics are already trumpeting the end of unbridled capitalism and the emergence of socialism in Wall Street.
