Saffron-Robed Enforcers And Premier Stakes
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“While the piety of presidents and monarchs remains their own business, it is clear that any religiosity they express or resources they spend on religious projects are above all strategies to achieve political ends…”
Madawi Al-Rasheed (Al Monitor – 17.12.201)
( January 12, 2-14, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Geneva Season has become an annual event in the Lankan political calendar. .Every March/April a new resolution on Sri Lanka is presented at the UNHRC session. Tensions rise, tempers fray, promises and threats are made, and then it is all over. The resolution is voted on, and Lankan political-life returns to its violent, arbitrary and abusive grooves. For the next several months, the Rajapaksas rule, more or less as they like it, until it is Geneva Season again.
