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News Archive for Mar 2014
Indo - Lanka Relations before the China War and After Part IINo impact of Pre-independence Indian politics On Sri Lanka’s side, the great movements that took place in the sub-continent during the pre-independent phase had little impact on the emerging island nation. A few Leftists had come under the influence of India Socialists like Jayaprakash Narayan overseas. These links were maintained to some extent. The Bolshevik-Leninist party led by Colvin R de Silva at the time of Independence was an outcrop of the BLPI in India under the shadow of which all Sri Lankan political prisoner escapees from Sri Lanka functioned. As for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Stop big bullies
Addressing the 'Janapathi Janahamuwa' program telecast live last week, President Rajapaksa has said that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay in connivance with a handful of powerful countries, based on wrong information, demanded an international investigation against Sri Lanka despite the fact that the government had eradicated three decades of terrorism and ensured the most important human right that a person can have, 'the people’s right to live in any part of the country without fear'. In an another piece of news item, the President added that the Government has succeeded in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
US Resolution a planned move to take control of Northern Sea of Sri Lanka for a USA Military Base.
USA and its close allies who never intervened to help Sri Lanka during the terrorism under which Sri Lanka was suffering, are very active now after Sri Lanka on its own eliminated a ruthless terrorism. They are not only present but interfering excessively into Sri Lanka’s internal affairs, and showing an exaggerated concern over a violation of human rights and war crimes during the course of elimination of terrorism by the Government and the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka. USA, its allies and its Agent Navi Pillai of UNHRC have left out 30 years of terrorism under... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
USA is a Destructive force, not a Constructive force-now trying to checkmate China and Russia using Sri Lanka as a pawn.
United States of America is a failed State, trying to recover its lost prestige and leadership through a Hitlarian methodology to create a white hegemony in the world- to become a police state. In its blind search for power it uses human rights as a weapon, regime change as an object, arming dissenting groups in countries as freedom fighters against the governments in place as a springboard to destabilise governments, and impose trade embargoes as a stranglehold to subjugate nations. To-day America has become a world police state with its foot soldiers, the Ambassadors at Large, Assistant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
United Nations mediation: a warning from recent history
Sri Lanka's move for international peacekeepers to intervene during its civil war is now seen as a monumental mistake by most in the country In Thailand anti-government protesters blow whistles at a Bangkok rally. Caretaker Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul recently asked the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to mediate in the escalating political conflict. Kavi Chongkittavorn recently wrote about the dangers of Thailand asking the UN to mediate in the current crisis ("Thailand must be careful what it wishes for", Opinion, March 3). As someone from Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Jan Logie's Call for NZ to Support International Investigation On Sri Lanka
Dear Editor, Jan Logie Green MP in her maiden address to the NZ parliament on 12th of February 2012, described herself as a leftie, feminist, lesbian and admitted to " having gone off the rails in the past". Sadly, really sadly her recent call in parliament for NZ to support calls for an international investigations on Sri Lanka makes me fear that history is repeating itself. Thankfully the responsible administration that NZ is lucky to have presently is unlikely to let NZ "go off the rails", by paying heed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
A damning indictment
Former Indian Union Law Minister Ram Jethmalani has said the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi created the LTTE to protect Indian interests as she believed China and Pakistan were establishing their power in Sri Lanka. He has made no revelation. That Sri Lanka got a RAW deal from India is only too well known. Jethmalani has also suppressed part of the truth, we reckon. India was troubled by the late President J. R. Jayewardene’s pro-American foreign policy more than Sri Lanka’s ties with Pakistan or any other country. It was also to tame JRJ, who used... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Sri Lanka: UNHRC puts LTTE rehabilitees too in harm's way?
The UNHRC hype is not really about war crimes is it Why would the TNA and Tamil tiger diaspora back Sri Lanka's War time Army Commander in the elections as opposed to the President? While accusing the Government of War Crimes? The TNA and LTTE diaspora funding - was to back the former Army Commander who has been clear that it is he that commanded and mobilised the Army and has stated categorically - then and now... “If there are allegations of war crimes against the army, I have said that I am ready to answer that anytime... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Ref; "Vilification of Sri Lanka by world Tamil forum using false Propaganda"
There are a few issues that the Tamil Diaspora are facing that will hinder their efforts of using their host nations to condemn Sri Lanka on selective human rights issues with the ultimate goal of creating Eelam using diplomacy. With each attempt of a human rights resolution the Tamil Diaspora have failed in reaching any objective. The past two attempts only cemented relationships between Sri Lanka and China and isolated India in the region. Another issue facing the Tamil Diaspora is that they are no longer in Sri Lanka. The million odd Sri Lankan Tamils... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Regarding the article "Christian Eelam goal negating Hinduism divides Tamils"
Problem with Nehru’s approach that Indians recruited to foreign nations should be given citizenship follows the Colonial mentality. I doubt if Nehru would feel the same way if the British imported Africans from her African colonies into India to do the same indentured labor. If so that would make his demands hypocritical and invalid as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. It also demonstrates his imperial nature in dictating what other nations’ immigration policy should be when it came to Indians. Nehru’s approach of making citizens of Indians working in foreign lands completely falls apart... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Ref; "The United Nations "A Christian Western agenda to rule the World"
The post world war 20th century takes its roots from the Colonial era when Christian nations of Europe created empires which reshaped the world. Out of them the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and British Empires stand out. Each in its own way pushed Christian values upon the nations they subjugated. When the Portuguese set out to create a Colonial Empire their nation was in the throes of the Inquisition which was a group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. This fire brand version of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Regarding the article "Did India treat "Ceylon" as a plantation colony before China war? Not as front line neighbor"
Problem with Nehru’s approach that Indians recruited to foreign nations should be given citizenship follows the Colonial mentality. I doubt if Nehru would feel the same way if the British imported Africans from her African colonies into India to do the same indentured labor. If so that would make his demands hypocritical and invalid as far as Sri Lanka is concerned. It also demonstrates his imperial nature in dictating what other nations’ immigration policy should be when it came to Indians. Nehru’s approach of making citizens of Indians working in foreign lands completely falls apart... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
No Jobs, No Economy, No Prospects For Peace Or Life
March 10, 2014 "Information Clearing House - Over the decades various administrations, seeking to improve their economic record, monkeyed with economic statistics to the point that the statistics are no longer meaningful. According to Friday’s (March 7) payroll jobs report, the US economy created 175,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll let you have at a good price. Even if 175,000 jobs were created in February–remember now, February was a cold month whose low temperatures are used to explain poor housing and retail sales performance,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Journalist body urges political parties to manifest their gestures
As the nation prepares for the next general election, Journalists' Forum Assam (JFA) has urged all political parties to show their sincerity towards the implementation of various welfare schemes to media persons engaged in both print & electronic media. The Assam based scribes' body also insisted on enrolling a special protection laws for journalists on duty in the election manifestos of all political parties. Expressing grave concern over helpless working condition of media persons, particularly the private television journalists of northeast India, the JFA has urged both the Indian Union labour ministry and province... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/14)
Did India treat “Ceylon” as a Plantation Colony before China war: Not as a Frontline neighbour?
The question raised in the title of this article may encapsulate the essence of Indo-Ceylon relations from the inception of independence of the two countries nearly 66 years ago until 1962 India’s border war with China and later Sri Lanka’s war against terrorism set India on a different course. The two countries started their relationship after independence not with a positive note as over two millennia of recorded history and other living evidence would expect one to see, evolving from such a situation, but with a “problem”. The problem has gone down in history as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
"US seeks military base in SL - Kunayakam"
The history of US foreign policy is fraught with tragedy for those nations foolish enough to let a nation whose history and culture is basically defined by isolationism. It took world war two and an attack on Pearl Harbor for the US to wake up to the menace of the Axis powers. Even after Japan attacked the US it was the European stage that the US first took on. The first American invasion against Nazi Germany was in Africa where we landed in the north coast of Africa. To sum up that war it was brought... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
In response to article published on : "no UNHRC when Portuguese destroyed Buddhist temples and erected Catholic churches on top of destroyed Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka during the Portuguese era (1505 - 1608).
Recently I had a phone conversation with a dear American friend of mine. He and his wife are devout Christians and they belong to a particular sect of Christianity. My conversation started on the geopolitics of the world and as I talked to him he introduced the Christian God into the picture. I have no problem with his belief but I did find this subtle change of subject from geopolitics to religion a bit unsettling. By now he was in command of the conversation as we debated the pros and cons of Christianity. In the process... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
In response to article published on "India yet to decide on UNHRC resolutions".
Indian political leaders have demonstrated that they lack any vision and by that I go far back as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who upon independence took India into a massive Socialist society. Fearing the effects of Colonialism Nehru closed India’s economy to the world and created her own industries which on the surface looked sound. But as the years went by and these industries functioned without any competition that an open market would give they either ended up producing shabby products that went unquestioned or went bankrupt only to be bailed out by the government. Even... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
රට ඛෙදීමේ සටන ගෙනයන්නේ යුධබිමේ නොව, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ කොරිඩෝරවලයි. එය පරාජය කිරීමට රටම පෙළගැසිය යුතුයි - ඇමති චම්පික පවසයි -
• වර්තමාන දේශපාලන ක්රමවේදය තවත් එක් රියැලිටි වැඩසටහනක් ලෙස සිතා කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය දක්නට ලැඛෙනව. • ප්රාසාංගික තලයේ කෙනෙක් දේශපාලනයට එනවිට ලබාදෙන මාධ්ය ප්රචාරය ප්රතිපත්තිගරුක, විනයගරුක වෘත්තීයවේදියෙක් දේශපාලනයට එනවිට ලබා දෙන්නේ නෑ. අද අපේ රටේ පක්ෂ භේදයෙන් තොරව දේශපාලනයට බලපාන ව්යාධීන් කිහිපයක් වැළඳී තිබේ. ඉන් ප්රධාන ව්යාධිය තමයි දුරාචාර බලය හා දුරාචාර දේශපාලනය. නියම ආකාරයට, නියම ක්රමයට මුදල් සොයා නොගෙන කළු ආර්ථීකයක් මඟින් මුදල් සොයාගත් බලවේගවල ග්රහණයට, පාදඩ ග්රහණයට අපේ දේශපාලනය ක්රම ක්රමයෙන් හසුවෙමින් තිබේ. අද අපේ පවතින ඡන්ද ක්රමය යටතේ මිලියන සිය ගණනක් මැතිවරණ ජයග්රහණය සඳහා වියදම් කරන්න අවශ්ය වන අතර,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
Caribbean nations consider push for slavery reparations
KINGSTON Thu Mar 6, 2014 (Reuters) - More than 150 years after European colonial powers abolished slavery, a coalition of Caribbean nations is considering legal action to seek a formal apology and monetary compensation. Caribbean leaders meeting next week in St. Vincent are expected to study a broad legal outline for the reparations claim prepared by a British law firm. The subject of reparations has simmered in the Caribbean for many years and opinions are divided. Some see reparations as delayed justice, while others see it as an empty claim and a distraction from... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
The Sri Lanka High Commission has issued the following response to the latest video evidence:
"Your latest attempt to denigrate Sri Lanka is a continuation of your pernicious campaign that has already been exposed in the book Corrupted Journalism Channel 4 and Sri Lanka. Your allegations are such unmitigated and unsubstantiated rubbish that you make even gutter journalism appear to be Pulitzer Prize-winning professionalism. What makes your journalism doubly dubious and obnoxiously unbalanced is that you expect us to comment on footage which, in fairness, we have not even been given the opportunity of seeing or hearing. It is a pity that your continuing propagandist vendetta against Sri Lanka only continues to undermine the process of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/14)
The United Nations : A Christian Western Agenda to rule the World
The United Nations was formed by 51 states in 1945 following World War 2 that led to 55million deaths. UN comprises 193 member states, 45,000 employees and 35 associated organizations. However, this so called ‘peacekeeping’ body has failed miserably in keeping peace around the world. 83 different conflicts around the world proves this and the root of these conflicts all lead to some involvement (direct /indirect) to the US and its Allies bringing us to ask what has the UN done against the violations being community with impunity by the US? It has reached such a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
HOW JAFFNA CATHOLICS AIDED THE BRITSH EMPIRE’S EXPLOITATION OF INDIAN COOLI SLAVES! (Part III of III)
HOW JAFFNA CATHOLICS AIDED THE BRITSH EMPIRE’S EXPLOITATION OF INDIAN COOLI SLAVES! (Part III) As referred to, in the prorogue, I am outlining a straight forward story using material borrowed directly from other historians. Obviously I do not need to reinvent the wheel! I have only done one thing to such oodles and oodles of research; edited, simplified and placed it in a logical sequence so as to get peek at a comprehensive portrait of the period! In fact this report pursues an unswerving thread. It’s a tale concerning manipulation, greed and avariciousness by a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
Christian Eelam goal negating Hinduism divides Tamils
A billion dollar funded Christian Evangelical effort to harvest souls in India with the fullest support of the ‘secular’ Governments of USA and EU and right wing Christian missionary organizations in the West which is in full swing, has alarmed the public throughout India. Social media websites, newspapers, political affairs analysts and the like in India are now constantly focusing on the growing threat to the rich Hindu heritage of India from a well – organized Christian movement based in USA that blatantly demonizes Hinduism as the religion of the devil and aims to replace... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
Bishops conference
We are a group of senior Buddhist professionals in Sri Lanka whose mission is to promote religious and communal harmony among the various segments of the country. We are much perturbed (?)over the news item appearing in the Island of 5th March 2014 with banner head line ‘Mannar Bishop leads for call for international war crimes probe”. According to the news item the ‘appeal is made by a group of Catholic priests and Rev sisters from the Northern and Eastern provinces urging the Geneva based United Nati.ons Human Rights Council (UNHRC)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
'Tiger Bishop' Rayappah Joseph's proposals to UNHRC
'Tiger' Bishop, Rayappah Joseph of Mannar, along with LTTE backers and NGO's had submitted some proposals asking the US to include them in the final draft of the US Resolution to the UNHRC. In their memo, they had given 7 requests and some of them had been 'separatism' to the North and East, an international investigation on war crimes in Sri Lanka, acceptance of the traditional homeland theory, a remembrance day for the tiger terrorists and so on. Rayappah Joseph and his gang had requested that their proposals be included in the US Resolution. The Tamil diaspora as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
Vilification of Sri Lanka by World Tamil Forum Using False Propaganda
Member of the US Congress 27 February 2014 Dear Sir/Madam, Vilification of Sri Lanka by World Tamil Forum Using False Propaganda With the UNHRC meeting scheduled for March, the Tamil Diasporas have once again stepped up their propaganda campaign to convince the International Community to grant the Tamils a Homeland withinSri Lanka that they failed to achieve after 26 years of terrorism. Thanks to an honest and discerningForeign Minister, Australia may be the only First World country that will not vote in favour of a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC meeting. Ms Julia Bishop not only realized that the Tamil propaganda was completely false, but has the moral... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
India Yet To Decide on UNHRC Resolution
The Editor The Hindu Delhi, India Dear Sir : Reference your news item on March 7,2014 that the Indian External Affairs Ministry has indicated that India is yet to take a final call on the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, is this not what India did on two previous occasions when it was abundantly clear to both those that were for the resolution and those who were against it that India was going to vote against Sri Lanka? It seems that the Indian Government does not have the integrity or honesty to make it known publicly that it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
Comment on the UNHCR Resolution against Sri lanka: A Plea to the members of the UNHCR to open their eyes and to be fair, to look at All Human Rights Violations happening today, instead of looking at the one country that liberated its population from terrorism.
It is time that the members of the UNHCR do consider the fact that the LTTE Rebellion aganist the democratically elected Government of Sri Lanka violated all the human rights of the entire 20 million population of Sri lanka for three decades. The LTTE killed all Tamil Leaders, including two Mayors of Jaffna. Tamil Members of Parliament, Indian leaders like Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Ministers and President Premadasa of Sri Lanka. During that period no one was safe in Sri Lanka. The LTTE attcked Colombo many a time killing Civilians, monks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
US seeks regional military base in SL – Kunanayakam
Under the guise of demanding accountability and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, the United States is exerting pressure on Sri Lanka to secure concessions, possibly of a military nature, Tamara Kunanayakam, Sri Lanka's former Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, said. Kunanayakam told Ceylon Today the US needed a strategic foothold in Asia and would use the UNHRC resolution to promote an international investigation into alleged rights violations to eventually secure a regional military base in the island for the US to achieve its ultimate goal of domination, even... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
SL fiasco in the UNHRC
March 8, 2014, 7:30 pm For months Geneva was the main topic of conversation in this country. But last week, the bottom seemed to fall out of the whole issue. One reason was that when the first draft of the resolution against Sri Lanka was tabled, it did not have the institution of a commission of inquiry against Sri Lanka or any such thing. All it did was to request the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to ‘assess progress towards accountability and reconciliation’ ‘to monitor relevant national processes’ and ‘to investigate alleged... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
UNHRC Draft resolution of core group violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka
... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
My comment as an article in response to the article titled “Ambassador Aryasinha says draft resolution of core group violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka”
It is high time for Sri Lanka to push the issue of human rights violations committed by the Indian Peace Keeping Force to the Council in Geneva. This is not a “tit for tat” issue but given that the UNHRC is so “concerned” about human rights violations supposedly commited by the Sri Lankan military which ended the war then it is equally imperative that the human rights violations commited against Sri Lankans by the Indian Peace Keeping Force be addressed simultaneously. This would be a litmus test of the objectivity of the UNHRC and a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
My comment on the article "Convergence of Patriots to Canberra"
Since it is now obvious working with the accusers to come to some mutual understanding is almost impossible Sri Lanka has to act independent of them. Seek out those elements within Sri Lanka who continue to perpetuate the propaganda and the lies. One main group would by the Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance. They should be held accountable for their role in working with New Delhi and the nations who host the Tamil Diaspora in supporting this concocted human rights resolution. The TNA spend more time taking advice from New Delhi and Chennai... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/14)
Grand Puppetmaster Brzezinski Directing War Strategies from the Shadows
“From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran. It has brought 12 countries in central Europe, all of them formerly allied with Moscow, into the NATO alliance. US military power is now directly on Russia’s borders…This crisis is in part the result of a zero-sum calculation that has shaped US policy toward Moscow since the Cold War: Any loss for Russia is an American victory, and anything positive that happens to, for, or in... -Full Story- (marketoracle.co.uk - 09/03/14)
Crimea-s Case for Leaving Ukraine
If you were living in Crimea, would you prefer to remain part of Ukraine with its coup-installed government – with neo-Nazis running four ministries including the Ministry of Defense – or would you want to become part of Russia, which has had ties to Crimea going back to Catherine the Great in the 1700s? Granted, it-s not the greatest choice in the world, but it-s the practical one facing you. For all its faults, Russia has a functioning economy while Ukraine really doesn-t. Russia surely has its share of political and financial corruption but some of that... -Full Story- (consortiumnews.com - 09/03/14)
Ambassador Aryasinha says draft resolution of core group violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, has said "the draft resolution on Sri Lanka deposited with the Human Rights Council by a core group comprising - the USA, UK, Mauritius, Montenegro and Macedonia, violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka, is highly intrusive in nature and is in breach of the sovereignty of the Sri Lankan people and the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka". "In being politicised and in clear contravention of accepted principles of conduct in the Council", he said, "the resolution... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Revival of Sri Lanka's ancient indigenous medicine – HELA VEDA
Hela Veda, Sri Lanka's indigenous medicine is a national heritage that has been passed down through the generations by our forefathers considered to be from the time of Ravan the great king of Lanka in the time of Indian great epic Ramayana. A Sri Lankan entrepreneur Nature's Beauty Creations has created a series of herbal teas that intertwine our historical past with the wonders of Hela Veda using natural herbal ingredients indigenous to Sri Lanka. Before tea was introduced during the colonial regimes, royal families and elite society in ancient Sri Lanka consumed various herbal wellness... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Life Abroad – Part 69 MENTAL AND PHYSICAL IS DENTAL!
When the word ‘Teeth’ is analysed, it can be used in many forms and phrases such as ‘kick in the teeth, fed up to the back of teeth, etc., but my attempt in this episode is to get my teeth into a Sri Lankan who was very much proficient in dental science in the UK. I do not, however, wish to discuss the 2007 comedy horror film Teeth directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein. Dentistry According to the Indus Valley Civilization evidence, dentistry was first practised as far back as 7,000 BC. This earliest form... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Ref; article titled "Is UNHRC Navi Pillay probe, a push to replace Sri Lanka with Diego Garcia"
It would be irrational to believe that Sri Lanka will replace Diego Garcia. The point that Diego Garcia’s lease is going to run out in 2016 and revert to Mauritius since the nation of Mauritius claims the archipelago where the island of Diego Garcia belongs would mean the end of the US presence in Diego Garcia. Both China and India have developed long range missiles that can reach Diego Garcia and Mauritius does not want a US presence when she reclaims Diego Garcia. Neither does the nation of Mauritius. This article claims that the reason... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Ref; article titled "Will Sri Lanka end up in a Sierra Leone type Situation? Darussaman Panelists Feed the Conspiracy Theory":
The situation of the Sri Lankan war against Tamil terrorism and the civil war in Sierra Leone not compatible. As stated the war in Sri Lanka was never a civil war. During the 28 year long war Colombo had a population whose ethnic makeup was 30% Sinhalese, 30% Tamil and 30% Muslim with the remainder being of Christian and other faiths such as the Parsees. In addition across Sri Lanka Sinhalese and Tamils coexisted peacefully except for the Northern and Eastern provinces where the Tamil Tigers had control. Unlike Sierra Leone the people of Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Ukraine Crisis: Bugged Call Reveals Conspiracy Theory about Kiev Snipers
TEHRAN (FNA)- A leaked phone call between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet revealed that the two discussed a conspiracy theory that blamed the killing of civilian protesters in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on the opposition rather than the ousted government. The 11-minute conversation was posted on YouTube, it is the second time in a month that telephone calls between western diplomats discussing Ukraine have been bugged, the Guardian said. In the call, Paet said he had been told snipers responsible for killing police and civilians in Kiev last month were protest movement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Russians will never go against Ukrainians since two most successful leaders of USSR who kept USSR together were Ukrainian origin
Only few people knew that both Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and Leonid Ilyich Breshnev, the most successful leaders of USSR who kept USSR together were Ukrainian origin. They were ruling USSR from 1958 to 1964 and from 1964 to 1982 and were born in Ukraine or of Ukrainian origin. Brezhnev was born in Kamenskoe into a Russian worker's family in ukraine. After graduating from the Dniprodzerzhynsk ( in Ukraine) Metallurgical Technicum, he became a metallurgical engineer in the iron and steel industry, in Ukraine. He joined Komsomol in 1923, and in 1929 became an active member of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Ukraine & Egypt: A tale of two coups
In the latest color revolution, it was not an army but a rump parliament that pulled the plug on the elected president on a wave of protest, pushing out Ukraine-s Viktor Yanukovich on 22 February. He apologized from exile in the Russian city of Rostov-on-the-Don for his weakness during the uprising, but his fate was sealed when he was disowned by his own Party of the Regions, the largest party in the fractious parliament. The rump parliament unsurprisingly ordered the release of Yanukovich-s arch rival, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko from prison, a condition for Ukraine-s signing... -Full Story- (vijayvaani.com - 08/03/14)
No UNHRC when Portuguese destroyed Buddhist Temples and erected Catholic Churches on top of destroyed Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka during the Portuguese era (1505 - 1658)
I am at the ancient Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya in Sri Lanka. I have come to this sacred Buddhist place seeking some sorely needed serenity. In a great hallway there, I see once again a painting – a panel of paintings – that tells a familiar story of brutal intolerance. It shows an army of Portuguese soldiers destroying this very temple. In fact, they did set fire to this sacred place and partially destroyed it. They also confiscated the temple, banning Buddhists from entering the precincts. Later, the Buddhists reclaimed and rebuilt the temple... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Is UNHRC Navi Pillay probe, a push to replace Sri Lanka with Diego Garcia?
There are many wanting to know why a country enjoying 4 years of post-terrorist peace with people and even former cadres getting on with their lives should be hounded by the likes of Navi Pillay, the US, UK and even India bringing Resolution after Resolution with non-associated additions with each new Resolution while no such Resolutions have come before the UNHRC for the Christian West’s successive imperial military interventions and regime change programs – the reasons are complicated just as they are unjust raising the need to always juxtapose demands made by US directly or through... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/14)
Latest On Ukraine -Kissinger: Demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.
Ukraine crisis is merely an illustration of how degenerate and juvenile our politics has become in the generation that has followed his. Henry Kissinger, architect of the destruction of Indochina and secretary of state to one of America’s most corrupt leaders, wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post yesterday making arguments that, if uttered on any of the cable news shows, would be condemned as anti-American. Kissinger’s analysis is a balanced one, in contrast to much of what we’ve seen. “Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation,” he laments. “Far... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/14)
Delegates at the UNHR Council should reject the report presented by Navi Pillai as her impartiality is in question.
The UNO according to its Charter is to develop good relations with its member states, to develop, peace and security. UNO is to harmonize the actions of its member states to solve their common economic, cultural or humanitarian problems. It accepts the equality of all states without consideration of their economic or political status. Every one working in the UN System from the Director General to the junior most staff member should be an embodiments of the noble principles laid down in the UN Charter. All members of the UN System should perform the duties allocated to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Will Sri Lanka end up in a Sierra Leone type Situation? Darussaman Panelists Feed the Conspiracy Theory
Whether Sri Lanka will have to finally face a Sierra Leone like situation depends on what the UNHRC decides on the draft Resolution which was finally submitted to the Council yesterday (March 7th ) in the original form with no major modification of its Clause Three. The original Clause 3 led India to express some reservations on it and seek a modification. The only modification is the words “relevant mandated agencies” being replaced by “Relevant special procedures.” The modified form makes the position even more complicated. What are the special procedures anyway? That the Draft... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Government Defiance Pays Off: UNHRC Draft Resolution Falls Well Short of Tamil Demands
Sri Lankan government should be congratulated for its defiance against threats by the UNHRC Chief, many rapporteurs, US diplomats, British PM, Indian foreign minister and PM, TNA politicians, NGO camp and the likes of Dayan Jayatillake. They knew very well UNHRC has no mandate to impose an international investigation as it violates the supreme concept of sovereignty on which the UN is based. Knowing very well their inability to impose international investigations, demilitarisation demands and devolution demands, they opted for fear tactics. They hoped for an “out of court settlement”. However, the government stood firm and rejected... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Ukraine
Russia cannot be seen without including the CSTO, SCO and China. The CSTO was formed as Russia’s NATO but unlike the members of NATO the CSTO members are financially sound, rich in natural resources and strategically better placed. Many NATO members are in deep financial trouble including the US, UK, France. Putin did not take over the Crimea to engage in proposals for peace talks. Already the world has accepted the annexation of the Crimea as part of Russia. President Obama wants to make the Ukraine a member... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Latest News fron Ukraine-Washington's Arrogance, Hubris, and Evil Have Set the Stage for War
MOSCOW, March 6 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Western Military District has begun large-scale air defense drills at its southern testing range of Kapustin Yar on the backdrop of further escalation of tensions with the West over Ukraine. Kapustin Yar, located some 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of the Ukrainian border, will host about 3,500 troops and over 1,000 units of military hardware for about a month. The exercise will culminate with live-firing drills, involving S-300, Buk-M1 and other air defense systems. “It is for the first time that all air... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Latest News from Ukraine-Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tape
The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation.“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.The call took... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Silence on Lanka Resolution - March 5,2014
The Editor, Letters The Telegraph Calcutta, India Dear Sir: It is indicated that India and Sri Lanka were "non-committal" on the third resolution against Sri Lanka tabled at the UNHCR in Geneva. No one in Sri Lanka will find that surprising because they know that India will as usual vote against Sri Lanka although Mr. Singh claims to be "thinking about it" as he has done in the past and Sri Lanka is well aware of India's constant harassment of Sri Lanka based on the claim that they want to help the Sri Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/14)
Navi Pillay is disqualified to be Head of UNHRC
When public sentiments against international public officials are voiced internationally there is an urgent need to investigate why the world public should openly find an international public official unsuitable. Thus, the UN Secretary General is duty bound to listen and in the least hold an impartial inquiry to ascertain the grounds on which people in different parts of the world are vocalizing their dissatisfaction with Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Countries too need to pay heed to calls of the public and place an official No Confidence Motion against her. Navi... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/14)
RESPONSE TO SENATOR CHRISTINE MILNE's ATTACK ON SRI LANKA
Dear Senator I refer to your speech to the Australian Parliament on Human Rights Abuses in Sri Lanka on 12 February 2014. The purpose of this speech was to request Australian Parliament’s support for the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka, which is expected to be tabled at the March 2014 UNHCR meeting. The resolution calls for a full independent inquiry into war crimes in Sri Lanka. As evidence for alleged allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka you tabled the Public Interest Advocacy Centre’s (PIAC) report “Island Impunity? Investigation into international crimes in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/14)
Belligerent Babble on Bible and the Earth's tilt
My hometown newspaper, The Forum of Fargo-Moohead, carried an unusual editorial (on Feb. 18, 2014) appreciating the change of seasons wrought by the Earth's axial tilt of 23.4 degrees. Wisely, the editorial did not attribute this natural phenomenon to a creator God thereby leaving the readers to infer whatever they wished. However, Christian propagandists in the area could not resist their temptation to disrupt the editorial's neutrality by injecting a mischievous religious slant to the Earth's tilt. Ken Koehler, a religious educator in the area, reacted to the editorial with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/14)
US led UNHRC Resolution on Lanka disappointing -Karuna
By E-mail 84 Tambrook Drive Toronto, Ontario Canada M1W 3L9 March 5, 2014 The Editor ZeeNews.com Essel Studio, FC-19, Sector 16-A, Noida - 201301, India Dear Sir/Madam, Re: 'US led UNHRC Resolution on Lanka disappointing -Karuna' - March 5, 2014 I refer to the above captioned news report published in your edition of March 5, 2014, and wish to comment as follows: The DMK Party Chief, Mr. M.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/14)
Minister Peiris rejects High Commissioner’s Report says those “those who exalt its virtues only seek to inflict harm on the reconciliation process”
Minister of External Affairs and Leader of the Sri Lanka delegation Prof. G.L. Peiris, delivering the National Statement at the High Level Segment of the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today (5 March 2014), rejected the Report of the High Commissioner in its entirety, saying it was fundamentally flawed and disregarded the substantial progress made by the Government during the five years which have elapsed since the end of the thirty year conflict against terrorism. He said it also pays scant regard to the complexities and local nuances of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/14)
Statement by Hon. Prof. G.L. Peiris at the High Level Segment of the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council
Mr. President, Madam High Commissioner, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to deliver this statement on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka. May I at the outset congratulate you Mr. President, as well as Members of the Bureau on your election as office bearers of this Council. I pledge my delegation’s support to you at all times in the discharge of your office. Sri Lanka also reiterates its continued support to the High Commissioner in the discharge of her mandate as contained in GA Resolution 48/141,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/14)
Sri Lanka scores preliminary moral victory at UNHRC 2014
The hype behind the US sponsored third resolution against Sri Lanka looks to be frizzling out with US/UK and India managing to get as co-sponsors nations that would hardly constitute power bases. Thus the 2 world bullies and their stooge together with Montenegro, Macedonia and Mauritius have placed the 1st draft forward. Nations of the UNHRC are obviously more concerned about the situation in Ukraine where a democratic leader has been replaced by a US puppet. If this could happen to Ukraine representatives of the UNHRC and the UN General Assembly must seriously think the likelihood... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/14)
UNHRC - Part I: Navi Pillay Faulted For Abuse of Power
SINGAPORE (IDN) - UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) head Navi Pillay’s current campaign against Sri Lanka over alleged human rights violations – along with similar campaigns against Libya and Syria earlier – could jeopardize the cause of human rights around the world, analysts say. Pillay released a report in February calling for an international investigation into alleged war crimes when the Sri Lankan armed forces crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a final battle in May 2009. Navi Pillay | Courtesy: Wikimedia Sri Lanka’s Permanent Envoy in Geneva conveying... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/14)
The Spirit of the Christian Inquisition returns to the UNHRC to take Sri Lanka to the stake
The Christian Inquisition in Europe, Goa and other parts of the Portuguese Empire of Asia including Sri Lanka, goes down in history as one of the most horrible crimes against humanity. The Inquisition launched by the Vatican, Catholic Church, civil authorities of Spain and Portugal paved the way for a brutal legal system in most parts of Europe that lasted for over 600 years. There was neither a Rule of Law, nor respect for Human Rights nor religious tolerance in Europe during the period of the Inquisition. Heretics were burned at the stake for merely... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/14)
THE GENEVA TRAP: Can private citizens help devise an escape-route?
‘Flawed UN Strategy’ A reply to Vernon Boteju (Senior Attorney at Law) UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay’s long-awaited report on Sri Lanka is finally out. In it, she does exactly what I predicted in a paper published a few weeks ago in the Foreign Policy Journal, (“The UN’s Sri Lanka Strategy and its implications for international law”) to wit: whereas up to March-2013 the primary and principal basis for allegations of war crimes against the Government was the Report of the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts (POE) of March... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/14)
Putin-s army salutes a Nulandized Kiev
The coup in Kiev was a loss for Russian President Vladimir Putin, but doesn-t look like much of a win for the US, Europe, or Ukraine. What we see in Ukraine today is the messy consequences of a clumsily executed regime change strategy. Clumsy, because somehow it excluded pro-Russian forces in Ukraine that make up about half of the country. And clumsy because it blew out of the water an EU-brokered transition deal by which Viktor Yanyukovich and his party would have stayed in the government and Russia would have supplied US$12 billion to help Ukraine... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 04/03/14)
Ukrainian blood on Kerry-s hands
How far the blunt and threatening posture US Secretary of State John Kerry took in his interview with the CBS News toward Moscow - and President Vladimir Putin in person - over the Ukraine situation was genuine and how far it was intended to meet the domestic criticism of the Barack Obama administration being "weak" in its foreign policies doesn-t really matter. What matters is that Kerry demanded virtual capitulation by Russia under the shadow of US retribution and that-s being plain dishonest and unrealistic.... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 04/03/14)
DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA-Missing in action in world at boiling point
There is, it seems, something new under the sun. Geopolitically speaking, when it comes to war and the imperial principle, we may be in uncharted territory. Take a look around and you-ll see a world at the boiling point. From Ukraine to Syria, South Sudan to... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 04/03/14)
US hawks take flight over Ukraine
WASHINGTON - A familiar clutch of hawks have taken wing over the rapidly developing crisis in Ukraine, as neo-conservatives and other interventionists claim that President Barack Obama-s preference for diplomacy over military action invited Russian aggression. At stake in the current crisis, according to these right-wing critics, are not only Ukraine-s sovereignty and territorial integrity, but also Washington-s "credibility" as a global superpower and the perpetuation by the US and its Western allies of the post-Cold War international order.... -Full Story- (atimes.com - 04/03/14)
What is going to happen to Ukraine-s Crimea?
Emergence of statehood is evident in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. A government independent of Kiev has been formed, a referendum to change the status of the Crimea from the autonomy to a state has been announced, and a decision to form their own Ministry of Defense has been made. The primary goal is to hold a referendum on self-determination. But what-s next?... -Full Story- (english.pravda.ru - 04/03/14)
Putin: Deploying military force is last resort, but we reserve right
Russia will not go to war with the people of Ukraine, but will use its troops to protect citizens, if radicals with clout in Kiev now try to use violence against Ukrainian civilians, particularly ethnic Russians, Putin told the media. Putin, who was given a mandate by the Russian senate to use military force to protect civilians in Ukraine, said there is no need for such an action yet.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 04/03/14)
US Human Rights Record 2013 – The Emperor disrobed
It is time the world stood up against a tyrant that is destroying world peace and exposes not only the tyrant but the other nations working in association with the tyrant. It is only then can the world find true peace. Should the world continue to heed derogatory statements and reports issued by the US State Department on nations while the US blatantly violates every law in existence and the UN can only silently watch because its officials have degraded themselves by bowing at the feet of imperialists headed by the US? Planet earth... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/14)
Rachel Maddow: U.S. ‘has no leg to stand on’ lecturing Putin about Ukraine
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow noted on Monday the “central awkwardness” in U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chastising Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine under, as Kerry put it, a “completely trumped-up pretext.” “Absolutely true,” Maddow said. “And something on which the United States has absolutely no leg to stand on after we did exactly that same thing, famously, and on a much larger scale.”... -Full Story- (rawstory.com - 04/03/14)
Yanukovich sent letter to Putin asking for Russian military presence in Ukraine
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin says ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has sent a letter to Putin asking him to use military force in Ukraine to restore law and order. "Under the influence of Western countries, there are open acts of terror and violence," Churkin quoted the letter from Yanukovich to Putin in the third emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. "People are being persecuted for language and political reasons," Churkin read. ”So in this regard I would call on the President of Russia, Mr. Putin, asking him to use the armed forces of the Russian... -Full Story- (rt.com - 03/03/14)
From Kabul to Kiev, American meddling wreaking havoc
Although Obama’s talk tough was little more than tossing raw meat to the hawks in the Republican Party, diseased beyond recognition by Neo-Con ideology, his comments nevertheless betrayed a breathless amount of hypocrisy. After all, Washington wrote the book on violating the territorial integrity of sovereign states with its 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was wrongly accused of harboring weapons of mass destruction. Urgent pleas on the part of UN weapons inspectors, not to mention worldwide anti-war protests, fell on deaf ears in Washington as intelligence-challenged leaders dropped smart bombs on Baghdad.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 03/03/14)
Tamil civilian rapes in North Sri Lanka : 18 by Sri Lanka Armed Forces, what about 4000 by Indian Peace Keepers?
Garth Pritchard, a Canadian filmmaker who accompanied the forensic team to Kosovo said “this was a massacre that never happened….I was standing there when the forensic teams were telling Louise Arbor there were no 200,000 bodies and she didn’t want to know”. Louis Arbor was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, she was part of the ‘mass grave’ lie. Her successor is Navi Pillay and she is happy to continue the mass lies. Sri Lanka is the target and every effort is being taken to co-link rapes with the Sri Lankan military presence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/14)
Sri Lanka defended Japan at the Peace Treaty of San Francisco – its Japan’s turn to reciprocate
On 8th September 1951, 51 nations gathered at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco to officially end World War 2 and to formally end Japan's position as an imperial power, and to allocate compensation to Allied civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes. Powerful nations objected to Japan being set up as a US military base and coercing Japan’s to align to the West. India did not even attend the conference. Japan, would recall that it was little Sri Lanka who defended Japan before all the nations present and went a step forward... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/14)
Sri Lanka: UN's Navi Pillay Fails To Dispel Charges Of Bias
SINGAPORE (IDN) - Giving a press conference at the end of seven-day visit to Sri Lanka, United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) head Navi Pillay, a South African, said that she was highly offended by comments in the Sri Lankan media accusing her of bias because of her Indian Tamil ethnicity. “Some media, ministers, bloggers and various propagandists in Sri Lanka have, for several years now, on the basis of my Indian Tamil heritage, described me as a tool of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). They have claimed I was in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/14)
Re: Article titled 'Diplomats fear Australia will wreck UN probe into Sri Lankan war crimes
February 6, 2014 By E-mail Mr. Scott Reid, MP Member for Lanark- Frontenac-Lennox and Addington Chair of the Sub-Committee on International Human Rights Of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Int’l Dev. House of Commons Ottawa Dear Mr. Scott Reid, Resumed Hearings on the Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka : Nov 7 to Dec 10,2013 Further to my earlier communications, I have pleasure in forwarding an article published in the Colombo Telegraph on February 14, 2014, written under the pen name of 'Mango', which gives a detailed analysis... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/14)
External Affairs Minister Peiris to address HRC High Level Segment on Wednesday
Minister of External Affairs, Prof. G.L. Peiris who leads the Sri Lanka delegation to the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) arrives in Geneva on Tuesday (4 Match 2014), and is scheduled to deliver the Sri Lanka National Statement at the High Level Segment of the HRC on the morning of Wednesday. The 3 day High Level Segment began today with statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, President of UN General Assembly John W. Ashe, President of Human Rights Council Baudelaire Ndong Ella, High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navi... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/14)
Apartheid didn’t die in South Africa
The racist theory of “separate development” has followed a line that runs from De Beers’s earliest monopolies to Marikana today. It is inspired by a global order of “free markets” upheld by force.The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new, worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both a historic and contemporary model.... -Full Story- (newstatesman.com - 03/03/14)
Imperial Crusaders For Global Governance
(Swans - April 20, 2009) The International Crisis Group was set up in 1995, and describes itself as an "independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation," which works "through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict." Taking issue with this misleading self-description, Diana Johnstone described the Crisis Group as a "high-level think tank supported by financier George Soros... [devised] primarily to provide policy guidance to governments involved in the NATO-led reshaping of the Balkans." Johnstone adds that "[i]ts leading figures include top US policy maker Morton Abramowitz, the eminence grise of NATO-s new humanitarian intervention policy... -Full Story- (swans.com - 03/03/14)
Markets fall on Ukraine tensions
World markets fell on Monday amid a growing sense of crisis over events in Ukraine. In London, the FTSE 100 closed down 1.5%, while markets across Europe fell as much as 3.5%. Markets in the US also dropped sharply in early trading. Earlier, the Russian rouble fell to a fresh all-time low against both the US dollar and the euro, while Moscow-s stock exchange fell nearly 11%.... -Full Story- (bbc.co.uk - 03/03/14)
Ukraine: UK rules out Russia trade curbs?
The government will not curb trade with Russia or close London-s financial centre to Russians as part of any possible package of sanctions against Moscow, according to an official document. The document, which was photographed as a senior official carried it into a meeting in Downing Street, says that "the UK should not support for now trade sanctions or close London-s financial centre to Russians", while it confirms that ministers ARE considering - along with other EU countries - visa restrictions and travel bans on key Russian figures.... -Full Story- (bbc.co.uk - 03/03/14)
Ukraine: The military balance of power
On paper, at least, the Ukrainian military looks credible, though it is numerically inferior to the Russian armed forces - Moscow having about four times as many active troops and twice as many tanks as Kiev.Given the divisions inside the country, there must also be question marks about the loyalty of elements of the Ukrainian military to the new interim political authorities in Kiev.... -Full Story- (bbc.co.uk - 03/03/14)
Faultlines in Navi Pillay’s report to UNHRC
The anti-Sri Lankan resolution sponsored USA, UK and India – the three prime movers -- will rely essentially on the report presented by Navy Pillay, the High Commissioner of UNHRC. It is likely that other nations too will be influenced by it. In the following analysis addressed to Ms. Pillay, the former Editor of The Observer, H. L. D. Mahindapala, exposes the failure of Ms. Pillay to deal with the central issues fairly and comprehensively. It also exposes the partisan approach of Ms. Pillay which accuses only Sri Lanka and not the violations of human rights... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/14)
Kerry-s threats vs Russia unacceptable, West sides with neo-Nazis - Russian FM
The Russian Foreign Ministry has said “unacceptable threats” by US Secretary of State John Kerry over Crimea failed to take into account the violent power seizure in Kiev carried out by radicals.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 03/03/14)
Russian Defense Ministry dismisses Ukraine ultimatum reports as ‘total nonsense’
Media reports about an alleged Russian ultimatum made to the Ukrainian armed forces in Crimea are “total nonsense,” a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said.... -Full Story- (rt.com - 03/03/14)
Ukraine: The Law, the Putsch and the Imposter
The irresponsibility of the western media calling Oleksandr Turchynov "Interim President" and referring to the "new Government" of Ukraine walks hand in hand with the notion that Governments can be deposed and instated by groups of armed thugs on the streets. Turchynov claims power, but what about the massive voting fraud in the Rada? Under the law, under the Constitution of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov is not the Interim President, he is an imposter, the leader of a Putsch who has as much right to declare himself or to be declared Interim President as the author... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/14)
When a "Regime Change" orchestrated by the West back fires
It all started with the European Union at one point developed its Eastern Partnership Initiative and promoted the idea of association agreements with some of the focus countries purely based on geopolitical ambitions of NATO. Ukraine was a prime target. Shortly before signing the Eastern Partnership Initiative at the Vilnius Summit of the Eastern Partnership at the end of last November President Yanukovich had second thoughts about getting only EU involved in the deal. Evidently he understood the possible implications of entry into force of this agreement realising that the EU hasn’t got the sufficient economic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/14)
America should change its divisive foreign policy to be a unifying force promoting peace, and bring together dissenting parties in a country.
USA was about to intervene in Syria to help rebels to depose President Bachar el Assad and his government. Fortunately Russia intervened requesting America not to intervene in Syria as it was an internal problem. To-day the rebel forces in Syria are withdrawing, despite an opposition to the regime of el Assad says that they have not given up their battle, Syrians are able to take rest to evaluate the wisdom of their action against the regime of Bachar el Assad. All internal problems of countries could be solved by the government and its people if they... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/14)
Analysis: Limited US, European options in Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Despite blunt warnings about costs and consequences, President Barack Obama and European leaders have limited options for retaliating against Russia-s military intervention in Ukraine, the former Soviet republic now at the center of an emerging conflict between East and West.... -Full Story- (kansascity.com - 01/03/14)
Ukraine: Don’t blame us says Russian Ambassador to EU
During an interview at New Europe Studios, the Head of the Russian mission to the EU, Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov accused foreign forces of helping the Ukrainian opposition which he described as having fallen into the hands of right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis. We all know that the European Union at one point developed its Eastern Partnership Initiative which included Ukraine. From the outset it did not include Russia and we never sought a place among those “focus countries” of the Eastern Partnership. Though... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/14)
CHIEF MINISTER VIGENESWERAN’S SUGGESTION TO GRANT DUAL CITIZENSHIP TO TAMIL DIASPORA HAS A SINISTER MOVE
There is some hidden agenda in Northern Province Chief Minister Vignesweran’s suggestion of granting of Dual Citizenship to the Tamil Diaspora to encourage them to invest in Sri Lanka. It sounds okay on the face of it but there is some sinister move under this suggestion. This is a very subtle ploy by the TNA and pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora (a) to get the LTTE activists among the Tamil Diaspora back in to Sri Lanka to start another separatist war (b) to allow free flow of illegal funds to fund another separatist war. The demand by TNA to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/14)
PROLOGUE:HOW SRI LANKA CAME TO BE MANIPULATED BY CATHOLIC CHURCH - (Part III)
Part III of the series took some time to formulate, due to several reasons! Partly personal, partly strategic, but mostly; as lot of crisscrossing topics should be juxtaposed and that was an intimidating task. Above all, I should attempt to make this tale hang together, also in order to make it, concise, economic and lucid, so that any global reader will grasp its essence effortlessly. On the other hand if the tale is to be told in its entirety, it would take tomes to encapsulate. In essence compiling two centuries of clandestine historical great game tactics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/14)
Buddhist countries are natural allies of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s foreign policy must tilt towards extracting the maximum support and assistance from countries that have a shared Buddhist heritage, because these countries are natural allies of Sri Lanka. A shared past acts as a powerful reminder of a sense of duty to one another particularly in times of crisis. This is true in human affairs. It is equally true in international affairs and underlying religious ties and loyalties must be activated to gain maximum advantage. The unity and solidarity that underlies the formation and functioning of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/14)
Statue of Ambedkar to be raised in Sri Lanka
On February 22, 2013 at the Maha Bodhi Society premises in Maradana Colombo, a discussion was held towards creating new channels of Lanka-Indo relations initiated by Buddhist activists from both here and India who have opened a dialogue as private citizens, hoping to strengthen bonds of amity between the two countries on the basis of shared Buddhist heritage. The initiative was the culmination of a successful goodwill tour of Sri Lanka, recently, by a delegation of Indian Buddhists, consisted of both clergy and laity. The eight member Indian Buddhist delegation led by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/14)
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