Author: johanjohan Date: Jun 8, 2007 08:29
>From The Economist print edition
An opportunistic president and a dyed-in-the-wool rebel appear to have
ended Sri Lanka's best-ever hope for peace
AFP
SITTING in a refugee camp outside Batticaloa, in eastern Sri Lanka,
Radikhela, a skinny 21-year-old in a pink pinafore, softly describes
how her father died. He had his hands cut off, his belly sliced open,
and then was beaten in the dust until he expired. His crime was to
have been forced into skivvying for Sri Lanka's rebels, a ruthless
guerrilla army and suicide cult known as the Tamil Tigers. His killers
were from another Tamil militant group, in the pay of Sri Lanka's
democratically elected government. Radikhela knows this: her 13-year-
old brother was forced to watch the murder, then join the murderers.
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