To call Sri Lanka at peace in the last ten years would be an overstatement. There were many hangovers from two decades of civil war before that, including the basic question of how to bring back the Tamils into the mainstream. There were other questions, about war crimes allegedly committed by the military in the internal war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and the rehabilitation of large numbers of displaced persons in the north and east of the island. At the same time it