Namini Wijedasa, courtesy of LakbimaNews, 27 November 2011 It has been a slow journey but the government is finally accepting that civilians might have died as a result of military action during the final stages of its war with the LTTE. This change in position is attributable in no small measure to the report of [...]
Simon Jenkins, courtesy of The Guardian, 19 May 2009 — with title David Miliband’s piccolo diplomacy Blair at least walked the walk. But this foreign secretary can offer only feel good gestures of episcopal concern. I hope President Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka takes time out today to comment on the resignation of Mr Speaker. What the [...]
Greg Sheridan, courtesy of the Australian Weekend, 5-6 November 2011, under a different title THE criticism of Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa, when he visited Australia for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, left the key Sri Lankan villain out of the story. The criticism was that the Sri Lankan government engaged in [...]
Michael Roberts, 24 October 2011** On the 30th September 2011 a grandiose function at the presidential residence in Colombo displayed to the world one step in the Sri Lankan John Dowd government’s programme towards the rehabilitation of former LTTE personnel captured and/or arrested during the last stages of Eelam War IV and its immediate aftermath. On [...]
Ian Cobain, in The Guardian, 28 September 2011 Tamils at an IDP Camp — Pic by Eranga Jayawardena for AP [see end for Web Editor comment] The government has conceded that it is doing almost nothing to establish what is happening to scores of Tamils who are being forcibly removed from the UK, despite concerns [...]
Courtesy of http://www.sharegoodstuffs.com/2011/09/crickets-most-iconic-moments.html Windies pacemen vs Kiwi Umpires …….“February 9, 1980, saw scenes that have rarely been seen on a cricket field. West Indies, on short tour to New Zealand, felt the umpires were biased. In the first Test in Dunedin, Michael Holding knocked over the stumps at the striker’s end after a caught-behind was [...]