The international community's anger against Sri Lanka may soon be shown in the sports arena

[ Weekend Leader- P C Vinoj Kumar ]

It seems that Sri Lanka’s international isolation may happen sooner rather than later. Recent developments create this impression.

The Australian Cricket Team is under great pressure to call off its upcoming tour to Sri Lanka in August.

Though it appears that the Australian Cricket Board wants to go ahead with the tour, a last minute turn around cannot be ruled out given the mounting support for the ‘Boycott Sri Lanka’ campaign from the Australian media.

Campaigners have so far been demanding that Australia boycott the tour due to “moral reasons” - which is but a call to express outrage against the genocidal war that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa waged to crush Tamil insurgency in the country in which an estimated 40000 Tamils lost their lives in 2008-2009.