There were lions and tigers.

We are now experimenting with bongos, pandas, elims, Sumatran tigers, and the Australians bless their hearts are playing with these things.

After the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and LTTE in February 2002, all arrests and investigations are carried out under the normal law of the land.

And I voiced the thought that maybe at the turn of the year, I thought that the inspiration was more likely to come from those other, larger countries out there the Chinas, the Indias, the Asian Pacific tigers.

The final throes of the war last year were horrific, with 20,000 40,000 civilians (mostly ethnic Tamils) killed in a period of a few months by both the Sri Lankan government forces and the Tigers.

On Facebook, users created a page called Marie Colvin's Eyepatch, in reference to her left eye patch from an injury she had received more than ten years ago while covering the conflict between the government and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.

Arrests under PTA should no longer take place, according to article 2.12 of a memorandum of understanding signed on 22 February 2002 between the Government of Sri Lanka and LTTE, entitled Measures to restore normalcy .