Sri Lanka’s government resisted new calls for an international inquiry into the conduct of its troops in the last months of its victorious war over the Tamil Tiger rebels earlier this year.
If a recovery has started by the middle of 2010, Mr Brown may be able to pose-as he did in his New Year's message this week-as something approaching a victorious wartime leader.
The sacrifice over, a west breeze rippled the waters, and the fleet sailed away to a victorious war.
They needed a small, victorious war.
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