It has been almost a year and a half since the termination of the Global Fund Round 3 grant to Myanmar. The fingerpointing continues. One wonders why someone of Mr Neier’s stature would be drawn into the thick of the fray. ICG reports used to be reviewed by OSI before publication but this one clearly wasn’t. It is worth remembering that in situations of conflict there are many sides to a story and sometimes many versions of truth. This critique provides one. And in posting it the [him] moderator hopes we all may get closer to truth. U Thant’s words are as valid today as when he said them forty years ago: “in times of war and of hostilities the first casualty is truth.”