January 28, 2008
Rupavahini Attack Part II
Few people were suprised when a thug Minister and his bunch of hired killers ran amok at Rupavahini corporation. This minister had previous assaulted people working for other media organizations but the government did nothing This time too people of...
Posted by raditha at 12:39 AM
January 24, 2008
Ceasfire
It has been a week since the ceasefire has officially ended. The reality is that it ended three or four years ago. The ceasefire agreement (CFA) was confined to being just another document in the national archives. That is no...
Posted by raditha at 11:24 AM
January 22, 2008
Police kill 48.
48 persons have died from the violence in the south. The government blames the LTTE for it. There is no doubt that the LTTE pulled the trigger but the responsibility for those deaths lie with the police. It was said...
Posted by raditha at 9:37 AM
January 20, 2008
Bobby Fischer
The best chess player that ever lived is dead. Bobby Fischer died on the 17th, but there was so much happening in my life and here in Sri Lanka that I didn't find out about the sad event until today....
Posted by raditha at 3:29 PM
January 18, 2008
First Day of School.
Yesterday was the first day of school for my daughter at Bishop's College. We are very fortunate to have found such a good school for her. First day was exciting not just for my daughter but for me and my...
Posted by raditha at 4:07 PM
January 16, 2008
The blood letting get's worse.
The year got off to a bad start when parliamentarian Maheshwaran was killed on january 1st. Then there were three explosions in Colombo. The word on the street is that two of them were plants they did no harm. The...
Posted by raditha at 11:27 AM
January 15, 2008
The government keeps it's promise for a change.
During the last budget speech the president, who also happens to be the finance minister told the people of this country that the prices of petrol and diesel will not be raised 'at least until January' For a change it...
Posted by raditha at 6:24 AM
January 13, 2008
A joker, an Idiot a goon and a policeman.
An idiot and a joker have commented about the death of a goon in a bomb explosion a few days ago. They claim that the death could have been avoided if the checkpoints to progress that were supposedly removed by...
Posted by raditha at 9:28 AM
January 10, 2008
No bomb, only a bomb scare.
For a change there wasn't an explosion in Colombo or any of the suburbs. Nevertheless there was a bomb scare. A loud explosion was heard close to Rajagiriya. Later on the security estbalishment explained it away by saying it was...
Posted by raditha at 1:56 PM
January 9, 2008
Another Bomb
People hardly had enough time to digest the news of DM Dassanayake's death in yesterday's bomb blast when another one went off. Forunately no one died. But once again it brings into question the government's security strategy. The bomb went...
Posted by raditha at 5:21 AM
January 8, 2008
What an year
What an year this has been, and we are hardly into the second week. Things didn't get off to a good start when Maheshwaran, a Parliamentarian was killed at a kovil on new year's day itself. That was just a...
Posted by raditha at 1:45 PM
January 2, 2008
Another new year another killing.
Another new year, see yet another moderate tamil politician being killed. The government is ready to accuse the LTTE of the killing. In all likely hood they did carry out the killing yesterday, and it's equally likely that they planted...
Posted by raditha at 10:30 AM
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