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Democracy in SL in shambles
ABC Radio Australia – Concern Sri Lanka is sliding towards autocracy Sri Lanka’s parliament has approved a raft of changes to its constitution, giving more power to the President and prompting concerns of a slide towards autocracy. The changes will allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to seek a third term and remove some of the checks [...]
What’s next post the UN hearing on Aust?
The Age (Sep 7) – Admitting our racism problem is first step to a solution The UN called it, and we need to ditch the denial if we’re to start fixing it. AT A recent hearing before the United Nations’ expert panel on racism, Australia’s ambassador in Geneva stated that Australia was ”one of the [...]
More on Canada and the MV Sun Sea
The Star – Marmur: Our duty to welcome strangers In her book, After Such Knowledge, Eva Hoffman, who moved to Vancouver with her parents from their native Poland as a teenager and later lived in the United States before settling in Britain, has written — probably from personal experience — how the indigenous population often [...]
In Sri Lanka, “Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t.”
The Guardian, UK – Sri Lanka is still denying civilian deaths All attempts to investigate atrocities in the Tamil Tiger conflict have been stifled, despite promises made to Ban Ki-moon During the Vietnam conflict, the US military developed some creative ways to increase the numbers of Viet Cong insurgents it claimed to have killed. “If [...]
SL shows duplicity in Middle East relations
GLW – Sri Lanka: Ties with Israel expose duplicity On July 21, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published an interview with Donald Perera, Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Israel. Perera, the former Sri Lankan Air Force commander and Chief of Defence Staff, thanked Israel profusely for its support in the fight against the Liberation Tigers of [...]