

Dear
readers,
What do you have to say about recent anti- Sri Lankan utterances by Erik Solheim?
Hit the apple with a pithy one-liner on the issue written on it and win a prize. Please make it short and to the point.
Responses will be published daily from Monday to Friday, when the winner will be named.
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Responses
What intrigues us, is his intense desire to play ball with the LTTE Diaspora!
Gunda,
Ratmalana.
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Historical "King Lear" will be re-written as political
"King Liar" and the author will be unknown.
Manel Chandrasena,
Borella.
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Cry foul - Solheim hitting below the belt.
Channel 4 & Solheim must learn to play a "Straight Bat".
Nandani Gunasekera,
Ratmalana.
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They of yore, wore horns on their heads and looked nobler. Today they wear stripped tails and resemble the four legged type more!
Kingsley Goonesekera,
Ratmalana.
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What he failed to do over the table.
Trying his best to do it under the table.
Kingsley Goonesekera,
Ratmalana.
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Now that his boss is dead, he should abandon his on-going wily machinations to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka and allow us to live in peace.
Mr. C. M. Ariyawansa
Rajagiriya
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Solheim’s tall aims fail No way to conceal the tail that tells a tale
J. Abeygunawardhana
Homagama
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Viking Solheim, stop gorging Sri Lanka: It is high time you shed your antlers and disappeared in your icy northern forests to howl with wolves.
Johanna L. Bandaranaike
Mt. Lavinia
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We can see ‘tell tail’ marks!
Rein S.
Ratmalana
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Weep not Solheim, your friend asked for it.
Abrew N. G
Galle
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Not even the Norwegian king’s horsemen could save his buddy in the Vanni.
Asanka Manage
Colombo
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A carrion crow white in colour and dark in intent.
Basil Kuruppu
Kandy
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Is this the way we draw a hyena?
FNG
Kalutara
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I love to hate this bloke with a king-sized ego.
Michael Rodrigo
Trincomalee
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He may have got his Nazi blood during the German occupation.
Wimal Ekanayake
Kandy
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Confer national honours on him, for he led Prabhakaran to suicide.
Alavi M. H.
Batticaloa
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Come over here, Mr. Solheim, the LTTE’s top notch is vacant for you.
Wilma
Colombo
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Channel 4 or Gutter 4?
Rex de Alwis
Dehiowita
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Meet Velupillai Erik Solheim.
Sunil Padumaperuma
UK
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Why isn’t he being tried for war crimes; he supported a terrorist war which killed thousands of civilians?
Herath
Germany