Disturbing the Tiger: Sri Lankan Cease-fire Shaken
The two year cease-fire which brought a halt to Eelam War III in Sri Lanka’s civil conflict was shaken on Wednesday when a suicide-bomber triggered her explosive belt killing herself and four other police officers in the process in Colombo on Wednesday morning According to police accounts, a Tamil woman came to the government offices on Wednesday—the official day for members of the public to meet the minister—and asked to speak to ‘Douglas’ Devananda. When security officials became suspicious and asked the bomber to undergo a full body search. As she refused she was taken to the nearby Kollupitiya police station. Again she refused to undergo a search and then detonated the explosives, killing herself and four police officers instantly and injuring 12 others. The target of the attack was almost certainly Devananda, the Cabinet Minister for agriculture, Marketing Development and Hindu Affairs in the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government.
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I had hoped things were moving forward here after a generally succesful cease fire. Let's hope Osama bin Forgotten's fingerprints aren't on this.
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