``Unlike you, we have managed to extricate ourselves from foreign criticism. We have done so well that today, there is no country in the world that is critical of Sri Lanka. As a matter of fact, many countries have come down hard on the (Tamil) rebels of our country, and there are several who are helping us crush these insurgents, including your enemy, the USA.

``You, on the other hand, have the most powerful nations of this world joined together,hell-bent on destroying you, and no one supports you. Think about it.'' The writer exhorts Milosevic, like Kumaratunga, to announce a peace package. ``Serbian nationalist opposition to your proposals, if any, will actually be a good thing. You can then call them radicals, extremists, etc., and take for yourself the moral high ground, without having to concede anything at all to the Kosovars. You will be perceived as a moderate. The majority of Serbs will understand you and support you,'' the writer advises.

The letter further says: ``You may even want to rename the military operations inside Kosovo as ``war for peace''. You don't need to change the nature of the military operations, just the name. Believe me, this has tremendous PR value.''

The Net sites are also running articles from well-known international magazines in which casual references are made to Sri Lanka and other ethnic trouble spots in the world by analysts writing about the Kosovo crisis.

Widely circulated was Henry Kissinger's commentin Newsweek that the NATO intervention in Kosovo on the grounds that the suffering of the ethnic Albanians was offensive to moral sensibilities, left open the question of why not do the same in Sri Lanka and other such places. Most Eelam lobbyists believe that dwindling international interest in Lanka's crisis is the main reason why it remains unresolved. On one site, a writer accuses the west for an ``in-your-face double standard'' in Kosovo, but ignoring the plight of the ``one million refugees'' of Sri Lanka, the ``80,000 deaths'' and the ``untold amount of damage and destruction'' to the country.

However, in a telling comment on the differences in the two situations, Lanka journalist Macan-Marcar of the Sunday Leader asked: ``But where is Lanka's Milosevic?'' The faithful are now being summoned over the Net to join in a rally ``towards independence'' in London this weekend.