It is in such a context, the sessions of the UN Human Rights Council are to commence this month in Geneva. At the same time, the UN General Assembly sessions are also to begin in New York.

Knowledgeable circles say that it will not be a surprise that the issue of human rights violations in Sri Lanka is to be taken up during the sessions of the UN Human Rights Council. International Human Rights Organizations are determined to take up this issue at these sessions.

It is also expected that President Rajaoakse, who proceeds to New York to participate at the UN General Assembly and meet world leaders and representatives of international organizations will be confronted with the displeasure and the pressure of the international community.

In the mean time, two UN officials attached to human rights affairs and the affairs of torture are to visit Sri Lanka shortly. They, too, will express their town response over the question of human rights violations.

One wonders what the response of the government would be.

Already, John Holmes UN Under- Secretary for humanitarian affairs has been branded as a terrorist by the government sources for exposing the truth.

Likewise UN Special Envoy Allen Rock and former Foreign Minister of Australia Evans have been branded as LTTE supporters for their exposure of truth.

Whether it be the military operation, whether it be resolution of the ethnic issue, whether it be the international affairs, Colombo lacks diplomacy in handling the relevant affairs. It refuses to see the reality.

Colombo has failed to b receptive to the opinion of the international community and to devise political strategies accordingly.