The Independent/Victory will be hollow without constitutional reforms 

The misery of the Tamil civilians has largely been ignored and the response of the international community has lacked collective will. The war headed towards its ‘bloody denouement’ may end the LTTE, but does not guarantee the end of terrorism in Sri Lanka. While the government’s ‘desperate bid for an endgame’ is understandable, what is needed is a package of constitutional reforms that offer Tamils ‘real’ rights and an ‘effective’ share in power. Otherwise, ‘an aggrieved minority at home and an embittered diaspora abroad will ensure that peace remains elusive in Sri Lanka’.

The Telegraph/Sri Lanka’s war may finally be over, but no one is celebrating 

The manner in which this ‘perpetual tragedy’—that is ‘beyond diplomacy and politics’ and of late ‘beyond the care of the rest of the world’—is unfolding reveals two facts: the LTTE can no more claim to represent genuine Tamil anger and the government seems to be wasting a ‘historic opportunity to draw ordinary Tamil civilians into the country’s mainstream’. The government’s gambling may help keep terrorism at bay, but it also throws up another possibility—’a humiliated, invaded and displaced people’ may take to terrorism if their grievances continue to go unheard. With a hard-hit economy, Rajapaksa may consider a generous political settlement.