Sri Lanka's dawn

Since this High Commission has diplomatic responsibility towards the Republic of Botswana, it is considered necessary to comment on this, not so much to disabuse the minds of the NY duo, for their anti-Sri Lankan mindset is quite obvious from their writing, but to place the factual position before the unsuspecting readers of the newspaper, for whom Sri Lanka may only be a distant dot on the Indian Ocean.

It is observed that the article has three distinct trails. First, it quite accurately refers to the ruthless campaign of the so-called Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in which they killed not only government officials, but often Tamil leaders willing to explore compromise solutions with the government, as well as civilians from all ethnic groups.