I refer to Demos’ comment under the above heading in the Island of June 22 on my article and that of Kath Noble in The Island of June 15 and 17 respectively. There has been much confusion about what has been meant by what came to be called megaphone diplomacy. It referred to statements made both by bureaucrats and politicians …

The Sri Lankan government was moving against armed jihadis, a new menace in the Eastern part of the island country, which just ended a long drawn out war against the LTTE, claimed a front-page report in the weekly Lakbimanews on Sunday. Official Indian sources told The New Indian Express that presence of jihadis had begun to cause concern to both …

The statement emphasized that the Election Law strongly protects the rights of the voters and the candidates. The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday in a communiquŽ said the cheap and lowly attitude of a few western governments cannot undermine the democratic nature of the presidential election. It called on the said regimes to review their faulty approach to Iranian developments. Part …

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I refer to Kath Noble’s article in the Island of June 17, in which a whole paragraph is devoted to me. Before dealing with that paragraph, I must set out the background to it. In my article HRC Special Session in the Island of June 15, I described the   Westerners as the grand specialists in the art and science of …