{"id":113327,"date":"2013-11-04T00:08:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113327"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:32:18","slug":"sri-lanka-should-be-condemned-not-acclaimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-should-be-condemned-not-acclaimed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Should Be Condemned, Not Acclaimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\">Sdakat Kadri<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113328\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-should-be-condemned-not-acclaimed\/sadakat_kadri\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113328\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-113328\" title=\"Sadakat_Kadri\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sadakat_Kadri-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sadakat_Kadri-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sadakat_Kadri-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sadakat_Kadri.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sadakat Kadri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Sri Lanka prepares to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on 15 November, its government is feeling rather pleased with itself. Since defeating the Tamil Tiger insurrectionary movement in 2009, it has been engaged in a sustained rebranding operation, helped by a team at the Bell Pottinger public relations agency, and the exercise is paying dividends. Earlier this year, Lonely Planet named the island as its top travel destination for 2013, because \u201cthe war is over and Sri Lanka\u2019s looking up\u201d. The Commonwealth has been similarly impressed \u2013 so much so that the CHOGM is scheduled to anoint President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the association\u2019s chairman for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/comment\/sri-lanka-should-be-condemned-not-acclaimed-8919849.html\">more<\/a><\/span> in the UK Independent<\/p>\n<p><em>*Sadakat Kadri, author of The Trial, is a practicing English barrister and qualified New York attorne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":113328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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