[xilitla]

My heart goes out to you.....my hubby and I just returned from Sri Lanka, unsuccessful. The new commissioner's name escapes me, but it is Mrs. Jayasekara who interprets the entire country's adoption policy; she was retired and they asked her to return because no-one knows what's going on. The "staff" at the Commissioner's office is on strike - ergo they spend the entire day reading newspapers and racing forms. There are inconsistencies and LIES....the Commissioner himself says there are LOTS of children; Mrs. Jayasekara claims there are no children. We still wonder what happened to the 500 children who WERE available for adoption at Nayakakanda in December, but had "disappeared" when we went in January. We saw some of the children - being put to work. Official word says these children were ALL adopted by Sri Lankans; I doubt that...these are shaky times in SL and people there are not running to adopt. The other thing is this - you WILL get a child from Sri Lanka if you wait 2 years - Mrs. Jayasekara will assign you a dying child or one with TWO holes in the heart. We all need to form an Internaional Human Rights protest before it's too late for the children there. Cristina