A worldwide boycott of Sri LankaThe island's tyrannical government cannot continue to ignore international law – the world must stop supporting it

David Miliband, the foreign secretary, said in his speech at the Global Tamil Forum conference in February: "It [political reconciliation] will require you to speak up for a vision of a decent Sri Lanka that respects all its people and it will require you to speak up for a spirit that recognises that if people can not find a way to live together they will drift apart." However, Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, at one of his election campaign rallies in the north of Sri Lanka – which is part of the Tamil homeland – raised his voice in anger last week and shouted in Sinhala: "We are Sinhalese and I am Sinhalese – you listen Tamils!", as the crowd hooted at him to express their frustration and despair about his policies. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/11/worldwide-boycott-sri-lanka