The investigation must be thorough

The brutal acts of terrorism that occurred on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka raise a good number of key questions. The answers are not yet known. They require time and serious analysis of every piece of information. One of the most important questions must be about the mastermind. The attacks have shown a very high degree of preparation, a well organised chain of command and a deep effort of indoctrination, the brainwashing of the suicide bombers. All this is profoundly disturbing. One needs to find out what kind of structure allowed this level of coordinated, well-targeted destruction. First, the families of the victims must know who is responsible. Second, we all need to be sure that such capacity to do evil is annihilated.  

Poor Sri Lanka

This Easter Sunday has been a sad day for humanity. In Sri Lanka, barbarians planned and executed a series of terrorist attacks against innocent people in churches and hotels. Scores died and many were wounded. And the country itself, still trying to find peace after so many years of a tragic civil war, has also seen its image being seriously affected. Everyone should express deep shock and strong condemnation of such violence.

The Commonwealth and the atrocities

The Sri Lankan government is hosting the 2013 Commonwealth Summit.

The choice of Sri Lanka as this year´s organising nation has been deeply criticised in many quarters in view of the recent atrocities carried out by the Colombo leaders against Tamil civilians in the Northern tip of the country. It has also been perceived as an example of poor judgement, a feature that many believe is the defining trait of the current Commonwealth Secretary-general, Kamalesh Sharma, an Indian diplomat that has made a career under the protection of Sonia Gandhi and her party. But Sharma is above all too tired and just interested in staying in London as long as possible. He has very little influence and no strength of will. That´s what the Sri Lankans knew and took advantage of. And now, they are trying to make a lot of mileage out of the summit.

I think they made a mistake. President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka thought he and his friends would come out of this initiative cleansed. However, the meeting is actually reminding the international public opinion that thousands of innocent people were slaughter by the national armed forces in 2010, at the end of the civil war.  And that took place under the direct responsibility of Rajapaksa and the rest of the clique.