Sri Lanka’s War: You can look but you can’t touch!

Dayan Jayatillake had an after-lunch chat recently with a couple of folks, where he moderated a panel discussion on the now defunct Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission. SLMM has apparently closed down their website also. Total “Pedurath akulang gedara yanawa“

Dayan was stern about the government’s position of “look, but don’t touch” position :

“Engagement, yes; permanent monitoring mission or external presence on the ground, no“.

Mahinda Samarasinghe during his remarks commended China for the solidarity expressed. Modern-day International relations 101 would tell you,

China commending you on your Human Rights record is a bad thing.
You thanking China for the said commendation is worse.

China is fast becoming Sri Lanka’s biggest arms supplier. And basic sales rules say customer is always right.

2 Responses to “Sri Lanka’s War: You can look but you can’t touch!”

Nope, its not ” you can look but you can’t touch”. its ” you can visit but you can’t stay”.

Dayan Jayatilleka - March 10, 2008 at 9:03 pm

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You can visit but you can’t stay, because we want to bitch about you and we’re not man enough to do it to your face. cf also Louise Arbour, John Holmes, etc and so on.

ignatz - March 11, 2008 at 3:46 pm

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Pink Boxing Gloves
And other things contradictory… A strong believer in Chapter III of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. Article 14, Paragraph 1, A. It reads “Every citizen is entitled to the freedom of speech and expression including publication.”