"Things don't look very good for Sri Lanka at the present moment."

"Things don't look very good for Sri Lanka at the present moment." Rohan Edrisinha, a law professor at the University of Colombo and director of the Centre of Policy Alternatives said. Bob Rae, president of the Forum of Federations, which sponsored Edrisinha's talks, said one of the barriers delaying a federal solution to the conflict was LTTE's difficulty in transforming itself from a guerrilla operation to a political party.