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The imperialist embassies patronizingly fund ‘poverty analysis’, as if they don’t know how they keep robbing us! Why not ‘wealth analysis,’ so we too can follow the path they took!?

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Tamil Politics: Progeny of political assassins and war crime vendors

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 25 February 2021 0

UNHRC, HRW, AI, Eminent Persons, Core Groups and other western agencies are working overtime to tarnish the image of the present government....

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Pakistan-Sri Lanka relations: An exercise in world class diplomacy

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 24 February 2021 0

Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in South Asia with which Pakistan has endeavoured to develop a broad-based relationship covering...

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Sri Lanka draws UNHRC’s attention to progress in reconciliation efforts

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 24 February 2021 0

Refuting OHCHR’s grave charges, Colombo hints that Sri Lanka is a victim of Big Power rivalry The OHCHR should have...

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Authoritarian, hypocritical recommendations of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 24 February 2021 0

I can be very clear and blunt. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is going in the authoritarian...

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How sanctions violate human rights

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 24 February 2021 0

By Shiran Illanperuma A report on Sri Lanka published by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in...

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The UN: From the sublime to the hilarious

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 23 February 2021 0

The United Nations is an institution mired in politics focusing primarily on military conflicts, civil wars, economic sanctions, peacekeeping, plus sustainable economic...

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US re-joining UNHRC: American attitude towards terrorism and human rights

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 23 February 2021 0

‘The US returns to UNHRC, ahead of 46th session’ was a leading news item in The Island of 10.02.2021.

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Food (In)security: A national action plan needed

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 23 February 2021 0

Food security is defined by the United Nations Committee on World Food Security as “the means that all people, at all times,...

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Appeal to lift LTTE ban in the UK declined

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 22 February 2021 0

An attempt by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elaam (LTTE) fronts to lift the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) ban on the terror group was...

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Missing Persons Report and Civilian Casualties: Darusman Report inflated estimates- Maxwell Paranagama

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 22 February 2021 0

By Manjula Fernando Chairman of the Missing Persons Commission, retired High Court Judge Maxwell Paranagama, said although it was...

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The UN Network of Informers

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 22 February 2021 0

The revelation by the Darusman Panel that the UN had networks of observers in ‘LTTE-controlled areas’ has not received the attention it...

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The Complicity of the International Community in Causing and Exaggerating Death

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 21 February 2021 0

The most serious canard advanced against Sri Lanka is of massive numbers of civilians having been killed. This was first floated in the...

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Shoddy and Suspicious Details in the Darusman Panel Report

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 21 February 2021 0

I have not yet seen the full report issued by the panel appointed by Ban ki Moon, but the Sunday Island of the...

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Assessing the Secretary General’s Panel

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 20 February 2021 0

I have now had an opportunity to read through what is supposed to be the Report of the Panel appointed by the...

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Promoting Treachery – a new dimension to political affairs

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 20 February 2021 0

I was told yesterday by one of those NGO activists who had benefited hugely from foreign funding that several...

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The involvement of UN officials in the programmes of either Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu or Patricia Butenis

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 19 February 2021 0

Yesterday I wrote a satirical account of a meeting held at the house of the American Ambassador, reportedly at the request of...

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Yaka invests the Mimics

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 19 February 2021 0

Nakano Shigeharu’s poem on 1930s Japan, The Imperial Hotel begins, “Here it’s the West: The dogs talk English…” Yet, Colombo’s canines actually understand English better than anyone....

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The many personalities of Kiki Darusman

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 19 February 2021 0

One of the more astonishing features of the Darusman Panel is the character of its chairman. I have in fact met him,...

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Retirement Opportunities against Sri Lanka: Stephen Rapp, Ramsey Clark, Yasmin Sooka & Navi Pillay

Shenali Waduge - 18 February 2021 0

We have 4 international figures serving in the international ‘justice & world peace’ system now closely associated with the TGTE. Ramsey Clark’s...

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THE TENTATIVE WORLD OF THE DARUSMAN PANELISTS

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 18 February 2021 0

Having now seem more of the report, I am impressed by the skill with which the three Panelists have woven a highly...

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India loves Sri Lankan Tamils, ok?

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 18 February 2021 0

The man has said it. India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, speaking in Chennai (yes, that’s in Tamil Nadu), has said that his...

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CONTINUING VICTIMIZATION THROUGH SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 18 February 2021 0

The Darusman Panel is grossly misleading about the way in which surrendees were handled. It sneers at Government figures for those in detention as...

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Stephen Rapp Covered-up Rwanda Genocide to Absolve US Culpability

SRI LANKA BRIEF - 17 February 2021 0

Former Head of the US State Department’s War Crimes and Global Criminal Justice (2009-2015) during the Obama regime, Stephen Rapp, who worked...

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