Prioritizing resources for war

The truth is that without a firmly determined political will there cannot be success in war. It is an absolutely necessary primary condition. This kind of policy initiative can be launched and pursued only by the Executive President and no one else as it was actually the case in the anti separatist-terrorism war.

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The Morning Inspection

Death is common and so is apathy, sadly

There was a death in 1976. A murder. A student was shot dead. His name was Weerasuriya. University of Peradeniya. That was not the first murder in post-Independence Sri Lanka and came five years after scores of young people had been killed in the first bloody and meaningless adventure orchestrated by the JVP.

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PARALLEL Perspectives

Fonseka injects a conflicting climate on the country

The decision to shower favours on the TNA forces poised to snuff out the gains of the hard-fought terror war was as an outrage. Sarath Fonseka’s move completed the most conflicted political realignment in the run up to the election with the rivalling UNP and JVP leadership now joined at the hip by the dangerously irrepressible TNA.

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