Mortar

Several people have written to ask if I was anywhere near the small mortar attack on some dignitaries in Batticaloa yesterday.

I wasn't, although it did cause the cancellation of a meeting I was going to attend.

International NGOs and international workers are welcomed here, especially by the rebels who attacked yesterday, so we aren't being targeted. (It was the other way around in Afghanistan.) And I don't live or work near the people who occasionally are.

So no worries!