High drama at the opening of foreign donors meeting in Kandy

Unexpected high drama interrupted yesterday’s inaugural session of the Sri Lanka Development forum held in Kandy. Soon after President Chandrika Kumaratunga finished her own emotional speech in which she said that her life was at risk in sticking to the Joint Mechanism Ven Athuraliye Rathana Thera, the parliamentary leader of Jathika Hela Urumaya, took the floor and blasted the LTTE and the proposed Joint Mechanism.