pass the roti on the left hand side

...if it hasn't already.  This is frightening because it looks like an end to the military operations - but what does that mean for Tamil people of various sorts and other people who don't toe the Sinhalese nationalist line in Sri Lanka?  Some of the possibilites - like massive ethnic cleansing - are horrifying.  And it, like most war situationns, has relevance for the broader social context as well. We've already seen one journalist killed  :(