Sri Lanka, Nov. 20 -- It is very pathetic and saddening to highlight the fact that the western media has never stopped their campaign of painting a rather distorted and wrong view of Sri Lankan politics. The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition) of November 18 reports the results of the recently concluded presidential elections with a biased outlook.

"Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former defense official revered by Sri Lanka's ethnic majority for his role in ending a bloody civil war but feared by minorities for his brutal approach, registered a comfortable victory Sunday in the Nation's presidential election."

The writer probably reporting from Colombo must have been well aware of the very fact that the vote base of the Tamils in the northern and e...