never ending story

fighting in the trincomalee area continues with the battle now centered around the mutur area. there have been many casualties on all sides - government forces, the ltte and civilians. all this over an attempt by the government to free up a water way which the ltte had blocked. today's papers indicate that government forces and the ltte have agreed to a temporary ceasefire whilst ulf henriksson head of the sri lanka monitoring mission visits the area.

the jvp have postered the walls of colombo declaring "onwards to kilinochchi". in air-conditioned offices in colombo, corporate sri lanka leans back in plush comfort and sagely reconfirms their desire to crush the ltte militarily.

meanwhile in lebanon, israel continues with their carnage. as kids, we used to devour leon uris and our understanding of the middle east was based on his writings. an aunt of the cousin put this right one day when the two of us tried to argue with her about the rights of israelis. the discussion became family legend but made me do some reading on the issue and turned me to her point of view. check out a good outline of the problem here. together with the americans israelis are sowing the seeds for global rage and terrorism which will blight the globe for generations to come.

it is also relevant to say that south africa is playing sri lanka at cricket and sri lanka has been performing well in the recent past. who was it who said "give the masses cake"? not a cricket lover, obviously.