Thursday, July 3, 2014

The Family Curse


| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“….it is the President who has solutions to all these problems. He quelled terrorism and it is he who could solve problems of this sort…. Everybody should present these problems and the President will solve it. Nobody else can solve them.”

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (Daily Mirror – 2.7.2014)
( July 3, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Jean Lacouture wrote that André Gide’s cry, ‘Families, I detest you’ is “a slogan that ought to be framed and hung in every presidential palace in the Third World” .