Friday, June 21, 2013

The uphill road

The winners in Sri Lanka’s civil war continue to make life hard for the losers

Banyan
The EconomistOFTEN, when Sri Lanka’s ethnic-Sinhalese-dominated government appears to be offering a hand in friendship to the Tamil minority, it turns out to be a slap in the face. For example, in 2010 it appointed a Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission to investigate the final phase of the 26-year civil war.