Sri Lanka, Feb. 16 -- The entire country knows very well who brutally assassinated versatile actor turned politician Vijaya Kumaranatunga, but those responsible - the JVP - do not utter a word about it. Those who talk about 'files' containing secrets of others do not talk about what is inside their own 'files.' It is high time they apologised to the nation for the vast amount of killings they carried out. The best time to make this apology is today when we commemorate the heartthrob of the Sinhala silver screen in the 1970s and 80s, Vijaya Kumaranatunga.

The time was moving from 1986 to 1987. Political violence in the country was passing every household's doorstep and had reached the dining rooms by then. By this time, the underground ar...