‘PSC - the best instrument to solve ethnic issue’

All those who are involved in the Darusman Report and Channel 4 video should stand in front of a mirror and ask themselves whether they are qualified to interfere with Sri Lanka’s internal affairs and tarnish Sri Lanka’s image by producing fabricated documentaries. The Tamil people who were kept forcibly by the LTTE as hostages rushed into government held areas during the last days of the humanitarian operation not because the government asked them to do so but came willingly because they trusted the government and Sri Lankan armed forces,

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On designer riots and designer wars

The designers are not interested in democracy or peace. They are not interested in ousting regional or eliminating thugs or vanquishing terrorism. It is about profit. If tyranny serves profiteering, tyranny is left alone. The same goes for monarchies, military juntas and other authoritarian systems.

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To bee or to buzz

Sri Lankans have always had a sense of theatre. Alas, the advent of television has put paid to that popular art, as increasingly hopeless soap operas - distinguished mainly by their use of musical chords in place of acting - are beamed into the country’s households.

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