Rights is where things becoming tricky….as democracy is conceived today, the minority’s rights must be protected no matter how singular or alienated that minority is from the majority society; otherwise, the majority’s rights lose their meaning. Every Sri Lankan citizen in this democratic socialist republic must have their rights. Must. There is no negotiation on this one.

We are waking up, surely we are. But we gotta have a cuppa tea, read the papers and then start the day. No rushing to shovel the snow out of the driveway. This is Sri Lanka. We gotta deal with the realities. It won’t change whoever out there says we must in double-quick time. We are a friendly lot no? We now also have friends in the most unusual places.

Yes, yes, our Ministers are known to put their foot in it. Where to learn diplomacy in the gamme I say? We gotta learn these things, slowly slowly. It’s not the normalizing relations with the West that’s gonna put SL back on track, but us unruly baila bunch to be a bit more civilized and educated about the way a real democracy works. When I was growing up a Tamil was just another person with a bit of a weird name that took some time to get used to pronounce. We have to go back to those days. Simple.

Koheda yanne? Malle pol.. This summerize the whole article.
MR’s govt use of non diplomatic language is by design.
If MR starts with diplomatic language then he cannot go on doing excatly what he wishes.. fight the LTTE his own way.
That’s all.

Sorry; my sarcasm is misunderstood! I only made that point in that manner to highlight the issue. My second paragraph is more in line with what I believe.

I am afraid that this paranoia that the ruling elite help to establish for political expediency will prove too rigid to content with. If you belong to the majority community, you are better off in Sri Lanka!

Do the math. Sri Lanka threw its weight behind a resolution that censured the Israeli conduct in the Gaza war, which ensured that Sri Lanka got the votes needed to roundly beat the move against Sri Lanka at the special session in May. If we didn’t, we would have had the authority of a UN resolution against us and would have had faced our own version of the Goldstone investigation, at the very least. And no, your sardonic supposition to the contrary we did not get any Israeli assistance or tips on how to infiltrate the LTTE. We did buy UAVs from them at three times the world market prices but they aren’t the only ones who sold us UAVs. And if we did get their advice on how to run the IDP camps, I’m not surprised that its getting the flack it is. We bought Kfirs from the Israelis during Lakshman Kadir’s tenure, but never changed our traditional position on Palestine.

Unfortunately, this frog-in-the-well presumption is shared by many, along with Burning-issue. It is not by accident though – the politicos have so much of mileage they could squeeze out of this that they continue to propagate, nurture and feed to keep this notion alive and thriving.

Think for as minute — if indeed the West had any strong inclination to dominate and undermine “Buddhists” and “National Language,” they had a pick from a wide selection – Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, S.Korea, to name a few – do you see them destroying any of that – Why just Sri Lanka?

If you don’t wake up soon enough, you will soon have a combination of North Korea, Burma and Sudan, all bundled up within a single country at the Southern tip of India, all thanks to your own stupidity (and India’s celebrated, preeminent intelligence, the RAW!)

When someone speaks the truth he does not have to “twist his tongue” with “facts”.

It is high time for the people of SL to value and learn to speak the truth, let alone the policos. People must decide to give truthful politicos a chance to bring SL back to realism, before the country decays into chaos.

The author has eloquently pointed out the flaws of Sri Lanka’s foreign policies, but failed to grasp that, despite the foreign policy flaws, if Sri Lanka had moved the country politically towards a national reconciliation, no country can point a finger at Sri Lanka. In my view, this is the true failure and what it manifests is that, there is no need for a reconciliation, but blatant subjugation of the minorities is what in order, whether one likes it or not!