Killing Kadirgamar

Aug 22 (The New Yorker) In Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, the seventh district is the best address. Colombo 7, with its wide boulevards and winding, leafy lanes, is dense with government ministries and foreign embassies, and, clustered between them, the private homes of the political and business élite—villas ranging in scale from ample to opulent.