Guardian,  Mon Jan 18 20:45:42 EST 2010

    Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka's long and brutal civil war against the Tamil Tigers are now crossing political swords. Whichever candidate wins Sri Lanka's presidential election on January 26 will have to lead that small but strategically located island-nation in a fundamentally different direction – from making war, as it has done for more than a quarter-century, to making peace through ethnic reconciliation and power sharing.
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- The Academic

Making Peace after a brutal Ethnic war has far receeded than ever before.

The war horses galloped neck to neck wielding their poisonous swords
on innocent Tamil victims.

Shockingly after the so called 'victory' the horses have turned direction
and now galloping towards each other vowing to destroy each other
for corruption,nepotism and the other swindle of arms procurement.

The clash and the crash is yet to be seen in a few days.

The direction to Peace should have been with negotiations
not with the outcome of a brutal slashing of innocent minds and bodies
by both war horses.

Both swords are stained.


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