Whatever the outcome of the Friday, March 22, 2013, vote on the UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka, the Congress-dominated UPA and the DMK, along with some of the latter’s allies in Tamil Nadu have jointly opened the door for a
…These are times of ‘experts’. These are times of name-dropping and name-calling. These are times when pretty sick people are hailed as benefactors of humankind. These are times when principles of natural justice are routinely rubbished. These are times when …
This is a wakeup call for Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans. Juxtapose the calls for all military to be removed from Sri Lanka’s North and link that to the sudden emergence of guns, former unrehabilitated LTTE rs ‘stealing’ gun detectors …
In a far-reaching development, Sri Lanka on Tuesday signed UNSC Resolution 1373 designating 16 LTTE front organisations abroad as ‘foreign terrorists’ and freezing all their assets and financial resources. These include the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)
…The Sri Lankan flag replaced the Australian Border Protection Command flag on board the Australian Custom vessel ‘Corio Bay’ amidst the playing of the two National Anthems to symbolize the handing over of the above vessel to the Sri Lanka …
Former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Senate aides and government officials continue to leak details from a classified report on the CIA’s Bush administration torture program, giving a fuller picture of who was tortured, how it happened, and what limited …
Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy
By Tim Fish
JDW Correspondent
After more than two decades of fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at sea, the Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) is being reshaped to prioritize maritime security for …
(By Courtesy Asian Tribune)
For weeks if not months, the USA and the UK threatened that they would move a Resolution before the UNHRC to establish a ‘robust mechanism’ leading to a possible hauling of GOSL before an International War …
PRESS RELEASE
Order under UNSC Resolution 1373 signed by Minister Peiris
An order, designating persons and entities in terms of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 which sets out strategies to combat terrorism and to control terrorist financing has …