නැගෙනහිර කොටි නායක ඝාතනය
The assassination of Kaushalyan, the LTTE’s eastern political leader, amid the wreckage of the tsunami is a bad omen. The government condemned it as an attempt to wreck its efforts to reach agreement with the LTTE, but the editorial warns that it has changed the course of events and feeds the LTTE’s belief that the state is plotting to destroy it.