The Lion's Share For The Tiger

April 22 (LankaNewspapers) A joint mechanism on tsunami relief and reconstruction, involving the LTTE, is both desirable and defensible, and may indeed be regarded as indispensable. However, if the uncontradicted BBC story is to be believed, the joint mechanism that seems to be taking shape, i.e. the joint mechanism that the Sri Lankan government is ready to accede to, is indefensible in the court of public opinion, and will catalyse a political crisis both within the Government and society as a whole.