Yuli Ismartono

AS Sri Lanka commemorated 61 years of independence last week, the government in the capital city of Colombo confidently announced that its 25-year-old civil war would soon come to an end. In the past month, government forces have been launching a ‘final’ assault on the remaining strongholds of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the LTTE. To someone who covered the early days of this civil war and h