Archive for February, 2014
Sunday, February 16th, 2014
H. L. D. Mahindapala Last week Sen. Christine Milne, the Leader of the Greens Party in Australia, attacked in Parliament the human rights record of Sri Lanka echoing the usual anti-Sri Lankan rhetoric of the Tamil diaspora and the I/NGOs. The Greens have been the virtual spokespersons for Tamil separatist lobby in Australia. Some Tamil […]
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Sunday, February 16th, 2014
By Shelton Gunaratne The (Fargo, ND) Forum’s recent attempt to focus on the Asian minorities in its circulation area is commendable. However, as a long-time journalism professor who trained some of the leading journalists in this area, I wish to confess my culpability for some of the lapses in The Forum’s shallow reporting approach. Let […]
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Sunday, February 16th, 2014
By Kanthar Balanathan 15th February 2014 Senator Christine Milne Leader of the Australian Greens Senate Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Dear Senator, SRILANKA AND ITS HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT As a SriLanka born Tamil, patriotic SriLankan, and a patriotic Australian, I take this opportunity to write to you on a few questions relating to SriLankan peace and […]
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Sunday, February 16th, 2014
Review by: Chandre Dharmawardana, Ontario, Canada; Dec-2013 III- Focus on Sri Lanka – Canadian Parliamentary Hearings on Human Rights-III Review of the presentation by Directors, Foreign Affairs, 19- Nov- 2013 The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka and the souring of Canada against Sri Lanka. Document – 3 Source documents from the Subcommittee on Int. […]
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Sunday, February 16th, 2014
Senaka Weeraratna Much propaganda was made by the British and Christian Church in respect to the killing of Ehalapola’s family by the King of the Kandyan Kingdom, Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe. This crime pales into insignificance when reads how the Tavora family was executed under the orders of the King of Portugal, Joseph I, in 1759 […]
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Sunday, February 16th, 2014
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva The Sri Lankan community resident in Geneva and the environs came together to celebrate Sri Lanka’s 66th anniversary of independence at an event organised recently by the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN in Geneva at the ILO premises. With over 250 Sri Lankans under one roof, […]
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Saturday, February 15th, 2014
Shenali D Waduge 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 Lanka’s North and an interim plan to set the foundation towards […]
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Saturday, February 15th, 2014
By Charles.S.Perera The Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, when he spoke all the men of Israel, fled him, and were sore afraid (First Book of Samuel Chapter 17). The Goliath of to-day-the USA when it speaks all flee in fear daring not to challenge. The Goliath of to-day violates human rights, commits war crimes, […]
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Saturday, February 15th, 2014
Every 2 minutes a woman in America is sexually assoulted
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Friday, February 14th, 2014
Insight By Sunil Kumar February 14th 2014 When Amnesty International, the so called international watchdog has in a written statement to the forthcoming session of the UN Human Rights Council, saying that the Council must help Sri Lankan victims of human rights violations they are once again resorting to their dirty tactics which has brought them the name […]
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Friday, February 14th, 2014
Nalin de Silva –Courtesy The Daily News 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 his tenure as the Prime Minister of England. He has assumed duties as the de […]
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Friday, February 14th, 2014
à·à·™à¶±à·à¶½à·’ වඩුගේ (Shenali Waduge’s article translated by SPUR-VIC) ඛෙඳුම්වà·à¶¯à¶º සහ TNA ඉà¶à· සමà·à¶´ වන අà¶à¶» එහි (2001, 2004, 2010 සහ අද 2013) ඡන්ද ප්”රà¶à·’පà¶à·Šà¶à·’ ප්”රකà·à·à¶± ප්”රධà·à¶±à¶à¶¸ වෙනස්වà·à¶¸à·Š කිසිවක් නà·à¶. LTTE ය සමඟ සම්බන්ධà¶à· à¶à·’බියද෠වුවද දෙමළ ජනà¶à·à·€ TNA ට පක”à·‚à·€ ඡන්දය ප්”රකà·à· කිරà·à¶¸ සිදු කර ඇà¶. නà·à·€à¶ නà·à·€à¶à¶à·Š ප්”රකà·à· කළ යුà¶à·” දෙය නම්, ඔවුන්ට හිමි […]
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Friday, February 14th, 2014
Spot The Difference….
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Friday, February 14th, 2014
by A. Abdul Aziz. A number of Muslim states are facing varying degrees of insurgencies and violent attacks against state institutions, officials and ordinary people. The leading examples are Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen and Somalia. The Iraq government faces a militant challenge in Ambar Province where extremist and al Qaeda-type groups have recently […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
By Bandu de Silva-Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to France, and the Vatican” For a small country like Sri Lanka, meeting the challenge of a super power like the US is an up-hill task. There is no match at all. Sri Lanka does not have even economic resources as Iran or Libya under Colonel Gaddafi had, […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
– Kumar Moses In an unprecedented development, Israel jointed the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) of the UNHRC when it re-joined UNHRC after a lapse of 18 months. It is unprecedented because Israel was always in the Asia group. Geographically too Israel is an Asian country. But by unanimous agreement it was admitted to […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
C. Wijeyawickrema Mr. DBS Jeyaraj under the title, “Sixty-six Years of Independent Sri Lanka and the Tamil State of Mind,” (6 February 2014) on his own website, an essay that he says was, “an updated version of the DBS Jeyaraj Column article that appeared in the Daily Mirror of February 2nd 2013, appeals moderate Sinhala […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
By Wendell W Solomons Top-down reforms led Sri Lanka into becoming a follower of the economic doctrine proposed by US President Ronald Reagan. The reforms were imposed vigorously by a prot©g© when he was elected into leadership office in Sri Lanka. J R Jayewardene had struggled for this office in the island for a quarter […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Plum blossom In this whole UNHRC saga, India is the most slithery snake that Sri Lanka should watchout for. It is the most cunning, evil country around for sure. In fact, it won’t be at all a surprise if it is India who is behind these utterly false and bogus allegations of human rights violations. […]
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Thursday, February 13th, 2014
Dr.Tilak Fernando The Sri Lankan whom I met in London during early 1990s could be introduced as a medical man with compounded ambitions, talents and achievements from medicine, surgery, literal activity to drama – I have always referred to him as someone with “scalpel in one hand, pen in the other and feet on stage […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
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 IPKF operations as the head of the Intelligence Corps in Jaffna between 1987 – […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
Senaka Weeraratna We obtained Independence in February 1948 because India and Pakistan received their independence in August 1947 and Burma in January 1948. It worked cumulatively almost in the form of a package deal. When we talk of Asian independence movements it would be a remiss to ignore Japan’s significant military contribution towards weakening the […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
Asian Mirror- Sunday, 09 February 2014 08:52 Public Interested Advocacy Centre (PIAC) , an NGO based in Australia who did a study on war crimes allegation against armed forces of Sri Lanka has indicated to ‘Asian Mirror’ that it is not willing to disclose the manner in which they conducted the study, giving rise to […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
By Sarath W At the March session of the UNHCR session, Sri Lanka should propose that there should be an international inquiry to the war against the Tamil tiger terrorist, not only for the final stages, but from the beginning to the end, when the first bullet was fired at Alfred Durraiappa to the end […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
à·à·™à¶±à·à¶½à·’ වඩුගේ ඛෙඳුම්වà·à¶¯à¶º සහ TNA ඉà¶à· සමà·à¶´ වන අà¶à¶» එහි (2001, 2004, 2010 සහ අද 2013) ඡන්ද ප්”රà¶à·’පà¶à·Šà¶à·’ ප්”රකà·à·à¶± ප්”රධà·à¶±à¶à¶¸ වෙනස්වà·à¶¸à·Š කිසිවක් නà·à¶. LTTE ය සමඟ සම්බන්ධà¶à· à¶à·’බියද෠වුවද දෙමළ ජනà¶à·à·€ TNA ට පක”à·‚à·€ ඡන්දය ප්”රකà·à· කිරà·à¶¸ සිදු කර ඇà¶. නà·à·€à¶ නà·à·€à¶à¶à·Š ප්”රකà·à· කළ යුà¶à·” දෙය නම්, ඔවුන්ට හිමි ආසන ගනන මුළුමහà¶à·Š දෙමළ ජනà¶à·à·€à¶œà·š නියà·à¶¢à¶±à¶ºà¶šà·Šà¶¸ […]
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2014
By Kanthar P Balanathan 11th February 2014 Hon Tanya Joan Plibersek MP Dy Leader of Opposition Australian Parliament Canberra, ACT Hon Dy Leader of Opposition, SRILANKA AND ITS HOSTILE MILIEU I wish to submit humbly my views as a SriLanka born Tamil, and a SriLankan loyal & patriotic Australian, who has seen and studied the […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Part III- H. L. D. Mahindapala 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 (IPKF) which came as peace-makers were waging a war against them and they were helpless. Jaffna […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Shenali D Waduge “Counting other people’s sins does not make you a Saint”. “Others will be more likely to take your advice if you practice what you preach” Generally, anyone pointing fingers need to have a clean chit – in other words no one is entitled to accuse if their crimes deny them the right […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Dilrook Kannangara World attention was drawn to horrendous acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, militarisation, ethnic cleansing and outright injustice by Chagossians a few years ago when they took the legal route to reclaim their nation. Chagos Archipelago has been occupied by British and US troops for a very long time and Chagossians have been […]
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
By Charles.S.Perera. 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 […]
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