"UN suspends Sri Lankan troops from peacekeeping over army chief appointment" said in big bold letters as reported by Reuters .This so called "suspension" is nothing but a PR gimmick and it really reminds me of the time when the UN "pulled-out" its Regional office from Colombo in protest of Wimal Weerawansa's 'farce unto death' in front of UNDP's SL ...
The former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is sued in a US court over alleged extrajudicial killing and torture in Sri Lanka .The Centre for Justice and Accountability on behalf of Ahimsa Wickrematunge, Lasantha Wickrematunge's daughter is said to be the US based group which had filed this suit. Its worthwhile to look into what this Center for Justice and ...
I was reading Malinda Seneviratnes Blog post on the politics of excavating this so called mass grave in Matale. some say they were from a the turn of last century of victims of a epidemic and some say (this is more the JVP) its a mass grave containing bodies of persons killed during the 1988/1989 JVP reign of terror. Either ...
I had enough with all this forced reconciliation moves that's being forced by some Western countries all because they have few minority lobby groups , mainly pro-LTTE and Eelam Inc groups putting pressure on them in return. its necessary to answer to this myth that is campaigned by those who oppose the real reconciliation in Sri Lanka and the people ...
'categorically unfounded.' is all US had to say to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child when its report cited US forces had killed hundreds of Afghan children in the last four years...may be 'categorically unfounded.' could be a pretty good term Syria's President Al-Assad can keep repeating to mainly US press over accusations of killings in Syria ...
Here is Obama's license to kill at will,white paper..minus the heavy NBC watermark..can you imagine the international flack and criticism had this been a GoSL document?Try to replace US with SL and ALQ with LTTE.. can you imagine the flack and the criticism from the so called international community,if this were to be a similar GoSL Doc.? well, thank goodness, ...
Read the report ! numbers are staggering and sad indeed as these are human beings after all..not war bots ..but people with Mothers,Fathers,Wives,Children and Brothers&Sisters etc...sent out to wage war in some distant land with a belief that it will 'protect' them on the longer run! Nearly 130,000 US troops have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, and vastly more ...
this is how Frances Harrison, a former BBC correspondent decided to sell her upcoming book ,a sexed up fiction on last days of the war against the LTTE terrorist in Sri Lanka,while tweeting about a 'leaked' internal UN report ,evaluating UN's response during the last days of the war. Frances Harrison @francesharris0n btw this is link 4 book launch in ...
@tinker777 &I saw Policemen in kneed deep water amidst hvy rains&cyclone winds 2day,mannin traffic on Galle road wit no proper protective clothin! @tinker777 saw Police,Municipal workers attendin 2 duties amidst hvy rains&cyclone winds 2day.a reason y i managed 2 get home &still got power,water. @tinker777 even local hotels&super markets r open&those who stayed@work instead of rushin home made it possible ...
I've been reading Indi.ca for some time and i really like the stuff he write about.. i follow him on a regular basis ..but lately I've been reading some pretty alarming stuff..especially on his 'coverage' of the recently concluded Presidential Election...and then came the bombshell ,titled 'Ranil should go' where Indi wants Ranil out of UNP...in his latest post, he ...
When asked by a foreign journo about how he feels following the announcement of the results.. 'a big relief' said MR at the Elections Department.I think its a feeling reflected by rest of Sri Lanka today.After a tense and closely contested campaign where call for 'change' (of what and why most of Sri Lanka never understood..) was widespread, we have ...
Mahinda Rajapaksha and Co are corrupt..there is no doubt about that...all you need to do is read Sunday Leader every week and you will get details of all the allegation leveled against MR&Co.,and if Mahinda is re-elected, corruption will continue but that's something I can live with .. Not that i endorse corruption, but i know i,as an individual citizen, with my vote in ...
"I don't know" said President Rene Préval of Haiti..when asked by CNN where he would now sleep,thus experiencing, for a moment at least, the displacement and uncertainty that thousands of Haitians will face for many months to come...there is so much uncertainty in this world we live in..
Its Sad to see the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti's capital.. destruction and despair of people,bodies laying by the streets and helpless injured camped outside rubble of hospitals remind me of the aftermath of the Tsunami in Sri Lanka..and then the 'International' hoards starts descending down, first waves come with good intentions and then gradually the good Samaritans ...
"General Fonseka has had official discussions with the UNP, and other opposition parties, and the opposition groups including the JVP and the UNP had discussions about the strategies for elections" General Secretary of the UNP, Tissa Attanayake told the BBC Sinhala Service yesterday. So there seems to be a process in motion within the Opposition,least the UNP to get Gen.Sarath ...
Allegations against the Army of serious abuse and torture on terrorists detainees and suspects have been uncovered by a leading news agency and I'm shocked by some of the details of such abuse. Some of the former detainees have alleged they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs at detention facilities.this news agency had interviewed 27 former inmates ...
Its several days now since the demonstrations and protests started over the outcome of the Iran's Presidential election and today Iran's Council of Guardians, the panel of clerics who act as the country's top political authority, have invited opposition candidates to share their grievances in Iran's disputed election. seems all quarters of Iranian life wants everyone with power to act ...
