Sri Lanka, Jan. 5 -- There is a quiet anger spreading across much of the world. It is not the loud kind that fills streets with protests, but a deeper, more painful frustration felt by ordinary people who are watching global justice collapse under the weight of hypocrisy. At the centre of this failure stands the United Nations, an institution created to protect humanity, now increasingly exposed as one that protects power instead.

For Sri Lankans, this hypocrisy is not theoretical. It is personal. Years after a brutal war ended, the country continues to be dragged before international forums, threatened with sanctions and subjected to travel bans. All this because Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE, a terrorist organisation that terrorised the ...