Sri Lanka, Aug. 27 -- Our people are hungry. Our people are angry. Our people have too little cash to clothe themselves with, and our wages are inadequate to provide a family of four (father, mother and two children) with two square meals a day. Worse. the price of fuel is on the rise, and there is little likelihood of wages rising to meet the cost of living.

On the plus side, the government has been largely successful in bringing to book politicians and bureaucrats involved in corruption. Former Ministers, deputy ministers and a variety of local government politicians have been charged with fraud and corruption. They are in the process of being brought to justice. Among them were former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's younger son, a for...