Sri Lanka peace

Since Norway's special envoy to Sri Lanka Erik Solheim's last visit in October there, there has been little sign of either side moving closer to the negotiating table.

With Vellupillai Prabhakaran saying that patience was running out and the Tigers would return to the “freedom struggle”, Lankan peace efforts seem once again to be running into rough weather. While the Tigers want to begin on the basis of their interim self-governing proposal, the government has said a permanent solution must also be discussed.

Since Norway's special envoy to Sri Lanka Erik Solheim's last visit in October there, there has been little sign of either side moving closer to the negotiating table. After three years of ceasefire, things are where they were. A day after Prabhakaran warned of returning to old ways of attacks, a Trincomali bus blast that saw one dead was a bad sign for Sri Lankan government. SRK concert blast has not made things brighter, either, what with the blame game having started after the incident.

-Sajjan Singh Thakur