Lakhdar Brahimi and Edward Mortimer *
*) Lakhdar Brahimi is a former minister of Algeria and UN special envoy. Edward Mortimer is senior vice president of the Salzburg Global Seminar and formerly chief speechwriter for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Both are members of the advisory Council of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace & Justice (www.srilankacampaign.org )

IT is now three months since Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared