By James Jayalath from Melbourne http://cjpcbrisbane.wordpress.com Dear Mr. Arndt, I have read your article published in Catholic Justice and Peace Commission website on 02/03/10 and the Catholic Leader on 07/03/10. As a Catholic I am ashamed to read articles like this because you attract an audience on the Internet to read utter rubbish, and you […]

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Reflections by comrade Fidel It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive hope that a better world is, and should be, possible. It is a known fact that the homo sapiens has existed for about 200 thousand years, which is no more than a tiny span of the time passed since the emergence […]

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By Malinda Seneviratne Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu has advocated, alternatively, and how! This was in a piece published in a daily newspaper (“ƒ”¹…”Rajapaksa regime in grip of “missing enemy”ƒ”š‚ syndrome’). He has for a long time operated like an authority of international relations, advocating an alarmist don’t-upset-the-West line (in June, 2009 he wrote: “ƒ”¹…”Sri Lanka’s foreign policy: […]

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L Peiris Sri Lanka does not care damn if India does or does not welcome the restrictions that had been imposed on the displaced Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. Certain restrictions had to be imposed on Sri Lankans of Tamil origin as they were rescued from LTTE terrorist lairs and until circumstances are conducive to […]

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Lanka peiris India wants to set up a Consul-General’s office in Jaffna to create further mischief for the Sri ƒ”š‚ Lanbkan people and restore connectivity of separatist ideology and Indian Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao is not a babe in the woods in these activities. Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata are ƒ”š‚ the capitals of separate states and each […]

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Nava Thakuria The military ruled Burma (Myanmar) emerges as an important actor on the projected peace talks between the Union government of India and the banned militant group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). An active and influential underground outfit of Northeast India, the ULFA is fighting New Delhi for its core demand of sovereignty […]

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by DEMOS, Courtesy The Islandƒ”š‚  Navaneetham Pillay, the UN Human Rights Commissioner, has started her all too familiar, “ƒ”¹…”War Crimes Investigation’ refrain once again, to coincide this time, quite “ƒ”¹…”accidentally’, with the upcoming parliamentary election. She has been going for Sri Lanka’s jagular ever since the Government crushed her fond band of LTTE terrorists.It has […]

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by Kath Noble , Courtesy The Islandƒ”š‚  Nearly a year after the Security Forces killed Prabhakaran and finished the decades long conflict, the Government continues to be haunted by allegations of war crimes. Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has called for an international investigation on many occasions. Last week, as she […]

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