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US mounts political pressure on Lanka
(Indian Express, 06 12 2009) - COLOMBO: Close on the heels of India’s appeal to Sri Lanka to move towards ethnic reconciliation and a meaningful political solution to the 30-year conflict, the US is sending Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, to Colombo next week to encourage post-war reconciliation. Blake will be in Lanka on Monday and Tuesday, the State Department said in Washington. More …
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at the British Labor Party
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"Next time you want to buy underwear from Marks & Spencer, you want to buy a t-shirt from Next, you want to go on a holiday of a lifetime in a beautiful island off the coast off India - Do you really want to spend your money on a government that chooses to lock 300,000 people up behind barbed-wire.
A country that is the most dangerous in the world to be a journalist.
A country where we can see on Channel 4 News, young men, naked and bound shot at close range.
Is that what we want for our money, for our democracy?
I ask you to not only support the emergency resolution on Sri Lanka but to use your money and not prop up that government,"
witnessed the bloody conflict
from a Vanni hospital
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is this evidence of
'war crimes' in Sri Lanka?
25 August 2009 - Channel 4 News shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year. Jonathan Miller reports.
It is good to support Dr.Wickramabuhu for the simple reason that he represents the “non-capitalists” and the “oppressed”.
To get the support from the “people” he should get on the platform of “good governance”.
By “good governance” it is meant “a government that is against injustice, discrimination corruption and oppression”.
All the problems including the ethnic and terrorist problems came into being because of the above-mentioned “four evils”.
The poor and down-trodden who are the “majority” in this country as in any other country will surely support him if they = the poor and down trodden - are made aware of these evils that caused them all the misery and the urgent need to have them eradicated FOR PEACE AND HARMONY AND CONSEQUENTLY A PROSPEROUS SRI LANKA where everyone will lead a happy and pleasant life.