කර්ම චක්රය
H.R. Piyasiri, the UNP organiser for Devinuwara, has been arrested over the shooting of his own son. He was the most powerful figure to rise against the JVP’s second insurrection in the south — an insurrection that, Ivan writes, created conditions in which he could not have survived without killing. From there the column turns to the fate of the Public Trustee, to the attorney general’s interpretation that protected him, and to the friendship he kept with the chief justice.