By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka — The bitter ethnic war that has ravaged Sri Lanka for 25 years has entered a new and terrible phase.
"The battle in the north will be nothing like that in the east," said Jehan Perera, executive director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, a group working for reconciliation. "It will be much harder."
