Sri Lanka, Feb. 27 -- MP Sritharan has clearly stated his vision is NOT for the setting up of a separate state

Ever since Mr S. Sritharan was elected leader of the "Federal Party" or the "Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi" (ITAK), numerous articles with a racist bent have begun appearing in a number of 'national news outlets' in Colombo.

The articles have a common thread running through them - Sritharan's visit to the LTTE war heroes' cemetery in Killinochchi - and their (nationalist writers) interpretation of the symbolism of that visit.

One of these Prophets of Doom even went to the extent of giving a time-line when the next round of bombings would hit the country! In their myopic vision, Sritharan's visit exposed him as an apologist of th...