Sri Lanka It's Happening

January 26, 2006

Since Nov 17, Sri Lanka has been slidely slowly but surely into a very very deep abyss. Finally it looks like the slide has been halted. The government and the LTTE has finally agreed to hold peace talks in Geneva.

The lowest point was reached two days again when give bombs went off in Colombo. Fortunately no one was killed. Many see it as a warning. Exactly who made the warning is not clear. Yet.

This is a great victory for the LTTE, the government has agreed to all their demands but one - that is to hold peace talks in Oslo. It seems obvious that this was a feint, a face saving measure handed out by the LTTE to Mahinda.

The LTTE for their part can simply say they just fell back to their previous position of holding peace talks in Europe. Oslo would have been nice but not essential.

Mahinda and his hardline sinhala cronies are now virtually bending over backwards to accmodate the LTTE, but they can still pretend to have stood their ground. The truth is the exact opposite.

First Mahinda and the extremists promised to get rid of norway as the facilitator. Minister Mangala who accused them of being Salmon eating busibodies was seen warming greating the Norwegian envoy on his most recent visit to the country, the visit that broke the deadline.

The extremist buddhist monks, the JHU not so long ago burnt norwegian flags and raised a huge stink about LTTE chief negotiator being taken to the LTTE stronghold in air force helicopters. Balasingham is once again in the country and once again flew to Killinochchi in an Air force helicopter. The monks are covering their faces with their robes. They should be disrobed for doing exactly the opposite of what buddha preaced.

Posted by raditha at January 26, 2006 7:47 PM