Wearing Sackcloth And Ashes As We Apologize

Courtesy: The Sunday Times, Colombo
( October 19, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Piquantly enough, this seems to be the week of apologies and confessions for Sri Lanka.
First, we witnessed the nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya parliamentarian Rathana Thero’s confession in his capacity as convener of the Pivithuru Hetak (For a Better Tomorrow) movement, that it was wrong to have supported the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.