Ms. Navi Pillay
High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNHRC
Geneva
Dear Madam,
Comments on the report of the UN High Commissioner, Ms. Navi Pillay. titled Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka
I read with interest your report titled Promoting …
Senator Christine Milne, right wing Leader of the Australian Greens Party, is a regular critic of Sri Lanka. Mailne’s recently remarked in the Australian Senate and once again attacked on Sri Lanka government and its security forces who wiped out …
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 …
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
…Part II
The Sri Lankan delegates assembled in Geneva to combat the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in 2012 were tense. Though they were lobbying frantically no one knew which way the voting would go. The most …
The Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Lalith Weeratunga, has made a bold and strategic move which was reported by Reuter at the end of his diplomatic tour of the West. He told Reuter’s: “If there is an international investigation, the …
H. L. D. Mahindapala
(Courtesy of Daily News 22 Jan 2014)
The failure of UN to be the broad, universal umbrella for all 192 member states, protecting the big and the small evenly and fairly, without being a tool of
…Posted on January 2nd, 2014
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Bruce Haig, former deputy High Commissioner of Australia to Sri Lanka, is back again doing what he normally does: demonizing Sri Lanka, his bête noir. (Canberra Times – 2/1/2014) This time
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