Rajiva Wijesinha

“ So the Tigers now seem to be left only with the more extreme Socialists, those who like Joan Ryan think Gordon Brown is not good enough really. In this we can see parallels with America, where the strongest supporter of the Tigers is Bruce Fein, who has already diagnosed President Obama's faults, perhaps on grounds of consistency, given his attacks on Presidents Clinton and Bush.
And unsurprisingly they seem to have their parallels also in Sri Lanka, where Ranil Wickremesinghe is bringing a distinguished career to a culmination in the arms of the old eccentric left. ”

“ Many are Labour, others are - sadly - Liberal Democrats, the exception that proves the rule being the former Conservative MP Andrew Pelling who was deprived of the Conservative whip after being accused of beating yet another of his wives. He has not been convicted of this, as he proudly told a Croydon newspaper, when I first drew attention to the moral inadequacies of British MPs who attack Sri Lanka, but clearly he may have to seek refuge in the Labour Party if he is to get back into Parliament. ”

“ Now it is clear that the Tiger gamble, of keeping these people to increase and highlight their suffering now, is paying off. Even now it is not too late for those who care for our fellow Tamil citizens to demand, as the people of Jaffna have done, that the Tigers let our people go. ”