This sounds like the 'mother of all scams' being perpetrated at the expense of carrying out genocide of Tamil people. What became of foreign aid tsunami funds and of teh 4.5b$ foreign aid package under the 2002 CFA is sure to happen here too. DNAs cannot be changed. Besides SLG wants to recruit another 100,000 Sinhala soldiers to hold on to the occupied lands in the NE. Besides more funds are needed to replenish the lethal arms and armaments spent on the killing fields over teh apst two years. This could well be the ploy to provide such employment/procurements plus an open gateway to even more corruption.No independent Reporters left either as they have been killed or have fled the country. How more wonderful can Paradise be?

Genocide is, I believe, the result of human rights gone terribly awry and dealt with under both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions, falling under the ambit of both international humanitarian law and international human rights law. More light is shed in the latest Genocide Report published by an independent NY based NGO authored by two former US Secretaries Madelein Allbrght and Willaim Cohen. The Report can be down loaded on the internet under any scearch engine. Sri Lanka has been identified as one of 8 'red alert' countries in genocide mode. The time for reckoning is finally drawing nigh! It is about high time too.

Human rights-what human rights, makes pleasurable reading because of its good literary style on a very symbolic subject of our times. Sadly 60 years after the enunciation of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights it is yet a hotly debated issue, not because of its observance, but on account of its crass non-observance by certain countries who ratified it in years gone by. Sri Lanka is surely one of them. By its actions it is no surprise that this state has fallen on its promise, and badly so.

This is the eternal question. The moment of truth has to dawn that the state has yet to rise to its primary responsibilities, after 60 years of independence, that racsim, theocratism and land grabbing however much they may be cloaked under the words of "democracy, socialism and Buddhism" by which it calls itself ring hollow indeed. The time has come, even if is long past, to hold the government leaders to public account under international humanitarian and human rights laws. Only an International Tribunal will be able to do that.