H. L. D. Mahindapala
In a statement issued by the British High Commission ( Colombo , Sri Lanka ) yesterday (May 6, 2009) the visiting group of British Parliamentarians led by Des Browne MP said:
·         “We saw the considerable efforts the Government is making to accommodate and assist IDPs who have left the conflict [...]

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ASOKA WEERASINGHE COMMUNIQUÉ Ottawa-Vanier Riding For Canadian Parliamentarians interested in Sri Lanka
President of Sri Lanka invites UN Chief to visit Sri Lanka.  President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to Sri Lanka to see for himself the situation regarding the action for the accommodation and treatment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who [...]

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Bandula Kothalawala  London
 

The US has done it again! Mrs Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, has been quick to trot out the familiar ritualistic apology for yet another slaughter of civilians by US Air Force bombings in Afghanistan.
 It was not long ago that the sanctimonious Mrs Clinton declared that the whole world was disappointed over [...]

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Ben Silva UK
Dear Mr Miliband,

Transparent double standards and hypocrisy

 

 Please visit USA and ask for an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan and Iraq, to stop civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, now reaching record high levels, in excess of 1.2 million..

Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/16/iraq.iraqtimeline

 

Many have been tortured in Iraq and subjected to [...]

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Malin Abeyatunga
BBC reported this evening (6/5/2009) that American forces have killed 30 civilians in Afghanistan including women and children. The number of civilians injured is yet to be known. This killing of civilians has not occurred with direct confrontation between the American forces and the Talibans. This is a result of random searches by American [...]

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By Walter Jayawardhana

About 150 supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam  who arrived at the People’s Republic of China Embassy in busy Central London in Portland Place became violent and smashed up many windows of the office building, May 6.

The violent demonstrators who arrived at the embassy carrying the official separatist flag of [...]

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Sebastian Rasalingam, Toronto
Thousands of protesters gather on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, to ask for the Canadian government to intervene in what they are calling a genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka. (AP)
I have cringed with pain and clutched my head in anguish, watching my grand children’s friends in Scarborough, Ontario, [...]

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