The foreign minister Laxman Kadirgamar has been killed and the funeral rites have been performed at last. Born as a Tamil Christian, bred as an English speaking Tamil, Kadirgamar has died with Sinhala Buddhist identity. It was Kadirgamar who had successfully redeemed Sri Lanka's prestige and honour which had miserably fallen in the eyes of the International community and the Sinhala Nation had rightly paid its debt to him by observing his funeral as a national event.

The LTTE is building a citizens’ militia that can provide a measure of protection for their own villages, particularly against Army-backed irregulars, and could be drafted into relief efforts in the wake of natural disasters.

The spate of attacks on the Suderoli newspaper could be linked to Sinhala nationalists' mobilisation in the run up to Presidential elections or their efforts to promote the political ambitions of the renegade LTTE commander, Karuna.

The state of ‘Emergency’ brought into effect now, is a subtle and horrendous strategy authorising the ‘Sinhala’ State forces to suppress the Tamil freedom struggle. During the last two decades and many times before, this piece of legislation has been ruthlessly made use of with meticulous precision by Colombo in enforcing ‘wild governance’ in the occupied areas of the Tamil homeland. Taking away peace from the Tamil people, this ‘piece’ from the Sri Lankan ‘book’, has caused the deaths of several thousands of their brethren and did provide immunity to the occupying forces to illegally arrest, detain, torture and make many of them just numeric in the list of ‘disappeared’.

A few teasing and troublesome questions arise from the assassination of the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister. One first wonders how a Tamil Tiger could have penetrated the highly secured area where the Foreign Minister lived, which was further secured because of the presence of a foreign embassy in that vicinity, with the highly visible weapon that was used to commit this offense.

Saying it would conduct a ‘serious review’ of the Norwegian peace process, Sri Lanka Monday called for an international crackdown on the Liberation Tigers, accusing them of assassinating Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgarmar on Friday.

It must be said that the head of SLMM in his interview to Reuters has identified the basic cause of the danger faced by the ceasefire agreement. Norwegian facilitators and the SLMM are continuing their peace efforts with determination and without showing their exhaustion and frustration in midst of the situation turning into a spaghetti mess. It is a fact, however, that they are truly struggling to bring about the normalcy so essential to take forward the peace efforts.