Wither The New Turn?
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“….the inexplicable actually happens.”
Auschwitz, Our Home – A Letter (Tadeusz Borowski)
( October 16, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Travel restrictions are back. Foreigners can no longer visit the North without Defence Ministry permission.
Why re-impose such a restriction now, more than five years after the victorious end of the war?
“Defence Authorities had received credible information that some elements were trying to destabilise the North and create disharmony among ethnic communities in the country” , claimed the military spokesman. That official explanation can be dismissed as another Rajapaksa lie. In any case those who try to ‘create disharmony among ethnic communities’ are not foreigners but Lankans; and most are ensconced in the Rajapaksa-embrace, officially or unofficially.
