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The Colombo Government has been moving in several directions while continuing its military offensive. Its hard and painful decision to ban the country’s most dreaded militant outfit, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, will be received with sympathy and understanding in this country. Deciding to shut out the LTTE from the long-drawn process of finding a political solution to the ethnic problem was a difficult option. Through its betrayals, the fascist outfit has fascists outfit forfeited the Tamil community’s trust and faith, though it will be no one's belief that the ban will spell the end of the Tigers. The Sri Lankan Government has appealed to Britain and some of the European nations to come down hard on LTTE sympathisers active in collecting money and procuring arms. The Colombo ban came after the Tigers gave one more demonstration of their notorious ability to breach security. But till an enduring solution to the ethnic problem is found–through constitutional and legal safeguards for the just rights of the Tamils–militancy will continue to have its appeal. With the moderate Tamil leadership coming back on stage through the local elections, it is now up to the leaders of the Sinhala majority to show the vision needed for securing ethnic peace so that the beautiful island nation can fulfil its potential.
Given the Unmistakable revival of conservative orthodoxy in the United States, it is doubtful if the visit of pope john Paul to Cuba, historic by any reckoning, will hasten the end of the Washington—sponsored economic embargo against that tiny Caribbean nation. The blockade's continuance, as was its imposition 37 years ago at the height of the Cold War, is without any justification and must offend the conscience of the civilised world. By suggesting that the world open up to Cuba, the Pope has lent his powerful voice to the majority demand for an end to the embargo. By daring to visit the communist island amid the capitalist ocean, the Pope has demonstrated an independence of action that is conspicuously absent among the allies of the U.S. The Pope's apposition to embargoes is known but his unambiguous reiteration of it from Cuban soil will certainly not endear him to the American political establishment