No change of heart in Sri Lanka

President Mahinda Rajapaksa does not seem inclined to be particularly magnanimous towards the media following his re-election by a handsome majority. If the watching world was looking for any positive signals in this regard what it got was the opposite. On January 30(2010) an anti-government newspaper was shuttered and its editor arrested on allegations of publishing details of an ongoing investigation against a former Tamil rebel now in custody. http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?sectionId=6&mod=1&pg=1&valid=true&storyid=4332