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And Civil Society (real) floors Civil Society (imagined)
In a little over a month the UNHRC will vote on an anti-Sri Lanka resolution submitted by the world’s worst human rights offender, the United States of America. The politics of these moves draws heavily from a report submitted to..
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The UN’s Sri Lanka Strategy and Its Implications for International Law
Courtesy for Foreign Policy Journal February 4, 2014 This paper is an update to a previous paper of mine published in Foreign Policy Journal in March 2013, titled, “The illegality of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s approach to Sri..
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Resolutions against Sri Lanka based on personally commissioned Panel Report by UN Secretary General is illegitimate
There are some facts that the world needs to take cognizance of. Sri Lanka’s conflict has lasted 3 decades The initial training to arm Tamil youth took place in India clandestinely before 1983 – this nullifies any claim to use 1983 riots..
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UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka – US and the UK leads serious disruption to peace and reconciliation
Fri, 2014-02-14 By Raj Gonsalkorale The post war reconciliation process in Sri Lanka is very fragile. It may have flaws. It may be incomplete. It is however a process based on restorative justice and not retributive justice. This process has..
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Pre-Geneva advice for Sri Lanka
The 3rd annual sacrilegious pilgrimage to Geneva for some has already begun. The participants obviously have varying objectives but devising a multipronged attack towards a very clear single objective. An eventual plan to create a US satellite state out of Sri..
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Cameron, Sri Lanka’s de facto opposition leader
Courtesy of Daily News 14th Feb. 2014 David Cameron, the Prime Minister of England has a second job. It is not a part time spring job as he is supposed to be active in the second job as well during..
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Insane logic of INGOs accusing only Sri Lanka
Part IV H. L. D. Mahindapala Col. R. Hariharan is, perhaps, the most authoritative Indian source speaking publicly about the role played by the IPKF in the north and east of Sri Lanka. He played a key role in all..
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Is an election a ‘village tank’ to monitors and donors?
[Sri Lanka has had elections since 1931. We got ‘monitors’ only recently. The need was produced by palpable election malpractices, many but not all eliminated by the introduction of new laws and adoption of fraud-resistant techniques. With the need to..
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Indian peace-keepers turn into brutal oppressors
LANKA WEB- Posted on February 11th, 2014 Between 1987 and 1990 – the three years of Indian military rule in the north – the Jaffna Tamils were faced with the most unexpected turn of events: the Indian Peace Keeping Forces..
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Obama Failed To Deliver Long-Overdue Apology To Mandela
December 11, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “This Cant Be Happening” – When Barack Obama, the first black president of America, delivered remarks Tuesday during a South African memorial service for that country’s first black president, he muffed a historic opportunity to right..





