The deafening silence on the part of Professor Carlo Fonseka to my 2nd letter which appeared in "The Island" on July 6, 2002 is perhaps understandable. In my first letter which appeared on June 13, 2002, inviting the Professor for a debate, I expressed the hope that the proposed debate will not suffer the same fate as he debate which the Professor had with Mr. Eric J. de Silva.

The professor in his letter of June 29, 2002, while admitting that Mr. Eric, J. de Silva had the last word in an exchange of letters, has also stated that "when my knowledge of facts changes, I have been trained to change my mind". Thus their resistible conclusion that I can now arrive at, is that he is not responding to my last letter, because his knowledge of facts has changed consequent to what I have stated in my two letters referred to above.

Incidentally, the National Peace Council is also observing the same deafening silence on what was mentioned in my letter which appeared in "The Island" on 3rd June, 2002 and also in two other newspapers, and again under the above heading, on July 6, 2002. These organizations that rush to the press at the drop of a hat, do not possess sufficient ‘courage’ to admit what appeared to be a very glaring lapse on their part!

O Temporas O Mores!
D. M. Wijewardena
Matara