Posts Tagged: sri lankan government

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 [...]

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 [...]