Nobody Listens

Most ordinary folks that I speak to feel that the peace process will now go into a complete limbo—after President Kumaratunga's government has blamed the Tigers for the murder. "The war may begin again," says a skittish monk looking for an address in Bellawatte, a Tamil-dominated Colombo neighbourhood also known as 'small Jaffna'. Here the majority Tamils run groceries and international phone booths to cater to the relatives of their kin who have emigrated.