ජාතියේ අන්ධ ගමන
On 15 July 2014 the President appointed foreign experts, including Sir Desmond de Silva, Sir Geoffrey Nice and David Crane, to advise the Paranagama commission, a sudden reversal of the government’s stand against foreign involvement. Ivan asks what the move is for, given the Defence Secretary’s long hostility, and argues that the government failed to foresee that accountability after the war could not be avoided. Having leaned on China and adopted an anti-Western line, Sri Lanka is on a blind journey that its strategic position makes dangerous.