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| India playing Russian roulette with neighbors |
| 2013-03-28 |
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As expected, United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in its recent Geneva secessions, has passed a US-Britain-EU and India sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka. With the ulterior motive of getting it adopted by the UNHRC, Tamil neo Nazi fronts in the US, UK and Tamil Nadu have been working overtime during the past few months. As an extension to this exercise, many harassment and attacks on Sri Lankan Bikkus, students, businessmen, pilgrims and politicians have been carried out in Tamil Nadu.
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| Bodhu Bala Sena Wants Sri Lankan Envoy Ferial Ashraff Recalled From Singapore Immediately |
| 2013-03-28 |
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The latest target in the on going anti-Muslim campaign of the Bodhu Bala Sena (BBS)is Ms.Ferial Ashraff, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Singapore.
The BBS has demanded that Ferial Ashraff’s services be terminated immediately and that she be recalled from Singapore.
The demand was made publicly by the Bodhu Bala Sena General Secretary Ven.Galagoda Atthe Gnanasara Thera at the anti-Muslim meeting convened by the BBS in Pandura on Sunday March 24th 2013.
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| The plight of Australia’s Tamil refugees |
| 2013-03-28 |
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He lay in agony on the ground on a tarpaulin sheet in the open, bandaged in rags in the scorching tropical heat after two major surgeries on his leg and hip, but Thevam considered himself extremely lucky. Just the day before he’d been moved out of the school building turned into a makeshift hospital. A day later and he too would have been among the eight dead and many more injured in the shell attack on the hospital. No matter that the building had a clear red cross painted on its roof, visible to government drones and survei
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| Sri Lanka’s defeat |
| 2013-03-28 |
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The UN Human Rights Council sessions ended last week with the passage of another resolution on Sri Lanka. It was a victory for the United States, which secured 25 votes in favour compared to , with eight abstentions and the representative from Gabon being recorded as AWOL.
Life having continued as normal in Colombo, the Government is bound to learn all the wrong lessons from the experience.
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| In the aftermath of 2013 UNHRC Resolution |
| 2013-03-27 |
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The latest Resolution on Sri Lanka at the UNHRC sessions in Geneva brings into focus 2 issues:
1. The lack of clarity as to what specific recommendations are expected to be implemented by the Government of Sri Lanka;
2. The call for an independent and credible investigation into violations.
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| Bishop Lakshman Wickremesinghe and the Civil Rights Movement |
| 2013-03-27 |
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In the last column in this series, I will look at the Civil Rights Movement, which was founded in 1971. In discussing its contribution to Rights, and the manner in which Rights can be most productively promoted, I will also talk about one of its founding members, Bishop Lakshman Wickremesinghe, whose 86th birthday it would have been today.
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| UN Resolution And The Tamils |
| 2013-03-27 |
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No need for any more annual pilgrimage to Geneva. Every Tamil would say this from now on. The UN labored and brought forth nothing. By comparison even the mountain brought out something. For the Tamils of Sri Lanka the UN Resolution signifies emptiness. The Tamil people’s faith in the UN system is terminated for ever. They are now freed of this paralytic incubus giving them greater elbow room to organize their lives. They would prefer to veer from the UN-IC snare.
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| China, Russia, Cuba back Sri Lanka |
| 2013-03-27 |
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China, Russia and Cuba have slammed the resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka last week.
China said that it rejected any attempt to name and shame countries and to exert pressure in this way on States, and pointed out that the resolution on Sri Lanka was a product of politicization.
Russia reiterated that it was counterproductive to adopt politicized country resolutions, which discredited the work of the Human Rights Council and undermined an authentic dialogue in the area of human rights.
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| Resolution expresses support for an independent and credible investigation - Robert Blake |
| 2013-03-27 |
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US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake says there is skepticism as to whether the Sri Lankan Government will initiate its own investigations into allegations of human rights violations.
In a telephone interview with the BBC World Service, Blake said that if Sri Lanka is unwilling or unable to hold its own credible, independent investigation, then the international community will be forced to look at international mechanisms.
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| UK travel advice maintains concerns on Lanka |
| 2013-03-27 |
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The latest travel advice on Sri Lanka issued by the British Foreign and Commonwealth office, maintains that the end of the military conflict in May 2009 has seen an upsurge of nationalism in Sri Lanka.
It says as a result, anti-Western (particularly anti-British) rhetoric has increased and this has led to violent protests against the British High Commission and other diplomatic premises.
“Although no protests have so far been directed at the British community more generally, you should be vigilant and avoid de
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