Sri Lanka - New look for Colombo with LTTE’s demise – Dr. Kohona

Today, with the demise of the Tamil Tigers, Galle Face is thronged with people. Children flying kites, ice cream and kadala vendors competing with each other to attract their attention, balloons bobbing up joyously in children’s hands, lovers cuddling under black umbrellas – this is peace indeed after the end of the dreaded Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan Ambassador to UN, Dr. Palitha Kohona states in the Jim Luce Stewardship Report dated July 25, 2010.