Thetalks on power devolution between Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Tamil legislators yielded no positive outcome, according to the Tamil National Alliance, the largest grouping of MPs from the island’s north and east. The Tamil National People’s Front, which has two MPs, stayed out of the talks that it said were “simply aimed at appeasing the international community”. After …
For the opposition parties and minority community, time has come to review their strategy and policies. The UNP has to return to drawing board and prepare for the parliamentary elections and also a new leadership. The Tamil National Alliance is now a shadow of its past and has to consider ways and means to remaining relevant in the present political …