Kurunegala And Colombo, Sri Lanka
As expected the events during last week, when the announcement came that the conflict in the north had ended, was indeed extraordinary. The week started with reports from Colombo that a group of about a thousand protestors had marched on the British High Commission building and hurled objects and burned a effigy of David Milliband. I know a woman working there and she said no one was injured but the streets nearby were mayhem with revellers. We then started recei...