Powerful President dithering in the South,
Powerless Provincial Council resolving in the
North
by Rajan Philips-February 1, 2014
Last Sunday I alluded to Geneva anxieties. Since then things have got sillier and more complicated at the same time. On Monday, the Northern Provincial Council, that has not been able to do anything worthwhile after its election in September, passed a resolution calling for international investigation into the last stages of the war, and for erecting a memorial at Mullivaikal to honour the civilians killed there during the war’s final phase. The Council also decided to send Councillor Ananthi Sasitharan as its representative to Geneva to speak on the question of the missing persons. The resolution seems to have come out of the blue for most observers, and certainly for the UPFA government (which lately has been losing its original SLFP blueness).