The Tourist In The Chicken Coop

By Gongalay Gotabanda -January 17, 2014

Gongalay Gotabanda

Once upon a time, on a sunny morning in Sri Rogerpakistan, a man looked out of the window and saw a tourist inside his chicken coop. So the man went to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her.

“There is a tourist in the chicken coop” he said, “and I think he is hatching an international conspiracy!”

His wife opened one angry eye and looked at him.

“Tourism has been completely defeated” she said. “There are no longer any tourists in Sri Rogerpakistan…not even the ones who went around waving white bed sheets!”

So the man walked out slowly into the garden and went towards the chicken coop. The tourist was still there.

“Are you a tourist or a state tourist?” the man asked. “I’m a tourist, and I’m hatching an international conspiracy using NGO money to bring the government of Sri Rogerpakistan into disrepute!” the tourist replied.

So the man walked back into the house and roused his wife again. “The tourist is hatching an international conspiracy using NGO money to bring the government of Sri Rogerpakistan into disrepute!” he said.

His wife sat up in bed and looked at him coldly.                     Read More

SLMC wants a Presidential Commission for Muslims

 Friday, 17 January 2014 

Governing party ally, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has called for the appointment of a Presidential Commission to investigate the grievances of the Muslim people in the Northern and Eastern provinces.

The party has stated that the Muslim community in the country has been badly affected by the war and remains displaced even today after being evicted from the North in the 1990s.

General Secretary of the SLMC, parliamentarian M.T. Hassan Ali has said the party is also not satisfied with the performance of the Presidential Commission on Disappearances since the government does not have proper figures of the deceased and displaced Muslims.