And the world mostly says nothing: The first cabinet meeting convened by Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa after returning from London decided to abolish the Tamil version of Sri Lanka’s national anthem, Sunday Times reports. The ”˜shortcoming’ of having two national anthems should be rectified and in no other country was the national anthem used…
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Colombo must be getting PR advice from Zionist central
A rogue state makes a decision that would make Israel proud: The Sri Lankan government has appointed a senior army officer accused of war crimes in the conflict with Tamil rebels as its deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva‘s presence in New York coincides with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon setting…
Finding ways to wipe Tamils from the picture entirely
He’s back. “Terrorism expert” Rohan Gunaratna loves to talk about violence and evil and is very close to the Colombo brutes. Here he is wishing that any resistance to the autocratic Rajapaksa regime would disappear. Dream on: The cancellation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Oxford Union speech and the events leading to that controversial decision is…
Rajapaksa learns something about how he’s seen in civilised society
So close and yet: Tamil campaigners were stopped from serving a war crimes arrest warrant on a Sri Lankan general by his premature departure from Britain. An application was lodged at Horseferry Road magistrates court, central London, but inquiries by Scotland Yard established that he had left on Thursday night. Tamil groups blame the president,…
Colombo starts to feel heat over killings of Tamils
Wow. What a Guardian headline: “WikiLeaks cables: ‘Sri Lankan president responsible for massacre of Tamils’”: American diplomats believed that the Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, bore responsibility for a massacre last year that is the subject of a UN war crimes inquiry, according to a leaked US cable. Lawyers for Tamil activists in Britain are…
Rajapaksa needs to answer some questions…in the Hague
Make the man feel hunted until he faces justice: Lawyers working for Tamil activists are attempting to obtain a war crimes arrest warrant against Sri Lanka’s president and senior member of his entourage who have arrived in Britain. Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers last year amid humanitarian protests about the treatment…
If you are a dictatorship, Washington is keen to help
Before they’ve even been released, US ambassador to Sri Lanka already almost begs for global understanding. Only positive words towards Colombo and little about punishment or sanction for massacring thousands of Tamils: Strongly condemning the release of classified diplomatic communications by WikiLeaks, the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka said the U.S. has worked hard…
Inside the Tamil Tigers from a man who knows
An amazing interview with key former Tamil Tiger leader Thambiaiya Selvarasa Pathmanathan, alias “KP”. He’s currently under house arrest and monitored by the Sri Lankan regime. Some of this interview is filled with clearly scripted comments about the kindness of Colombo but despite this KP talks about the inside workings of the Tigers. The last…
Colombo wants affection in the world (and Tel Aviv is keen to make love)
While Sri Lanka continues to descend into a brutal police state and minority Tamils are discriminated against and shunned, of course Israel is more than happy to help a fellow country killing and repressing others: Sri Lanka’s navy is acquiring more fast attack craft as its role shifts to protecting the island’s exclusive economic zone…
Sri Lanka likes to flaunt its war criminal status
Credit where it’s due. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post headlines this story, “‘War criminal’ gets a UN job’. It’s way to bash the UN but also reveals how Colombo feels completely protected within the international system. China protects her. Just like the US protects Israel. While civilians are being murdered: A suspected war criminal who…