Four days before the anniversary, Sri Lanka's courts demonstrated what its justice system is capable of. The cases are moving through a fast-track bench appointed for the purpose, at a pace Sri Lankan justice rarely achieves in any other cause. But to account for it would be to place Sri Lankan soldiers in the dock for the deliberate execution of Tamils. And no Sri Lankan government, of any party or promised new era, has ever been willing to do that. Every UN resolution that defers to domestic processes, or communiqué urging Colombo to investigate itself, assumes that Sri Lankan justice is a neutral instrument awaiting activation.