Mario Arulthas

With­out a fun­da­men­tal re­struc­tur­ing of the state, Sri Lan­ka will sim­ply re­peat the past mis­takes that got it here.

In the eyes of the long-suf­fer­ing Tamils, the de­mands be­ing made at the on­go­ing protests do not go far enough.

The hard­line ap­proach of the new pres­i­dent and a failed rec­on­cil­i­a­tion process threat­en to stir eth­nic ten­sions.

The bomb­ings will fuel in­ter-com­mu­nal ten­sions in Sri Lan­ka, which still strug­gles with the lega­cy of its civ­il war.

Fol­low­ing the for­mer pres­i­dent’s re­turn to pow­er, in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty needs to take ur­gent ac­tion to pro­tect Tamils.