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		<title>Ambassador of India responds to Ms Navi Pillay&#8217;s remarks on Sri Lanka at the UN in Geneva</title>
		<link>http://www.hrw-watch.com/blogs/2009/08/05/ambassador-of-india-responds-to-ms-navi-pillays-remarks-on-sri-lanka-at-the-un-in-geneva/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[5-June 2009 -Courtesy : www.Lankamission.org -Ambassador Gopinathan Achamkulangare of India, responding yesterday (4.6.2009) to the remarks on Sri Lanka included in the statement of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navi Pillay said, "...it will be prudent to adhere to the outcome of the special session and be sensitive to the concerns expressed already, rather than take a position on contested proposals or controversial issues and ideas, which did not find eventual acceptance in the outcome of the special session."]]></description>
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		<title>Double standards of the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6 June 2009 - By: Nitin Gokhale - New Delhi, India The author, NDTV's Defence Editor, reported the war in Sri Lanka from the conflict zone for the past six months - If ever there was a proof needed about the double standards applied by the Western nations in dealing with Asia and Africa, there is no better example than their reaction to the developments in Sri Lanka over the last fortnight. Here's a nation that secured a hard-earned military victory over what was unarguably the world's most dreaded and ruthless terrorist group--the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE. Banned in 26 countries across the globe, the Tamil Tigers, as the LTTE was also known, had a powerful naval arm, a rudimentary air wing and at least 25,000 infantry fighters backed like a conventional army with 155 mm artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, Universal machine guns and claymore mines among other small arms. 



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		<title>The SuperPower Bullies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6-June-2009 - By: Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.d. - Michigan State University-These are crucial days for Sri Lanka. Terrorism has been totally defeated on the battle field in Sri Lanka but the scene of action has been taken to an international arena where the famous International Superpowers who overtly state their cause against terrorism are covertly aiding and abetting the continuance of terrorism. It is sad that they are trying their level best to castigate and punish Sri Lanka for having annihilated terrorism.]]></description>
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		<title>Physician heal thyself, hand over that nurse!- Island Editorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[5-June 2009 -Island Editorial -Courtesy: The Island - 'War crime' charges that the UK, the US and other international bullies were trying to press against the Sri Lankan government were speculative in nature. They were based on hearsay and some cock-and-bull photographs of the site of the final battle. But, the LTTE's war crimes were proved beyond doubt such as child recruitment (for which the UN placed the outfit on the List of Shame), massacres, political assassinations and bombing civilian targets. For bombing the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the LTTE leader Prabhakaran was sentenced to 200 years RI in Colombo. Therefore, before trying to haul up Sri Lankan leaders before international tribunals over 'war crimes', human rights champions must take action against the remaining LTTE leaders on their soil. 


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		<title>West&#8217;s cool reception to Sri Lanka&#8217;s victory</title>
		<link>http://www.hrw-watch.com/blogs/2009/08/05/wests-cool-reception-to-sri-lankas-victory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[31 May 2009 -By: Dr. Chandrani Gunaratna -Over the weekend, Sri Lanka, the tiny third world nation made history when it wiped out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a rebel outfit that pioneered the suicide jacket and got the honor from the FBI as the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world.The West which spearheads campaigns against terrorism across the globe and bombs far corners of the world in the name of 'war on terror' is however yet to acknowledge Sri Lanka's victory against the LTTE, the home-grown terrorist group that was responsible for 70,000 deaths and brought unimaginable misery to the 20 million people in the country for 30 years with suicide bombings, political assassinations, massacres and destruction of property and infrastructure.
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		<title>Now that the LTTE is Crushed &#8211; Some Advice for the &#8220;Western Powers&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[31 May 2009 - By: Stephen Long - Los Angeles, California -I just returned from a lengthy visit to Sri Lanka, and I witnessed first-hand the Government's splendid victory over the LTTE terrorists. Every day I read with great interest the many comments and opinions that were written on the conflict by both Sri Lankan and international journalists. From my perspective, I can assure you that the Government acted with restraint and compassion throughout the entire ordeal. I also saw that the so-called "Western Powers" were totally misinformed on the situation, which resulted in their passing a hasty judgment that condemned the Government's conduct toward the IDP's and the human shields still trapped in the No Fire Zone. 
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		<title>Mr. Bill Keller Executive Editor New York Times</title>
		<link>http://www.hrw-watch.com/blogs/2009/07/25/mr-bill-keller-executive-editor-new-york-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 28, 2009-Wick Gankanda -For the past few months, we have seen an incredible number of inflammatory biased attacks on Sri Lanka in the New York Times, some even based on hearsay and false stories generated by the Tamil Tiger Terrorists. Here is just once such example:

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		<title>Two victories and the battle on the media front</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[30 May 2009-Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy : Daily News-Two weeks and two victories - one was on the battlefront against terror, and the other on the diplomatic front against the backers of terror. Sri Lanka has every cause to be more than pleased; at the outcome of the UN Human Rights Council Session in Geneva earlier this week, when it humbled the so-called international community, which had to abandon its earlier resolution seeking to condemn Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes in defeating LTTE terror, and gave an overwhelming endorsement voting 26 for, 12 against with six abstentions to a consensual resolution by Sri Lanka that stressed the necessity for others to stop interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign State.
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		<title>A phenomenal victory</title>
		<link>http://www.hrw-watch.com/blogs/2009/07/25/a-phenomenal-victory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[29-May-2009 -Courtesy : Daily News -Sri Lanka achieved a phenomenal victory at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday. The resolution put forward by Sri Lanka received 29 votes in favour, 12 against with 6 abstentions. Even some signatories who called for the Special Session did not oppose the Sri Lankan resolution.What is important is that the Human Rights Council reaffirmed the respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of Sri Lanka, and its sovereign rights to protect its citizens and combat terrorism and condemned all attacks that the LTTE launched on the civilian population and its practice of using civilians as human shields.
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		<title>Defeat for terrorism and international coup d&#8217;etat.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[22- May-2009-Malin Abeyatunge-Over the years Sri Lanka had been fighting LTTE scourge of terrorism in three fronts and finally ended up militarily victorious. One is the military operations against LTTE in the East and the North. The second front is the pro-LTTE international lobby and third front is the international coup d'etat (IC). Even though the LTTE terrorists were militarily defeated, the pro-LTTE lobby by the hard core Tamil Diaspora ably supported by bought up politicians of the western block continues. The IC is currently led by Milliband and the gang from UK, Hillary and the Gang from States, Eric and the gang from Norway and  a gang from EU countries with a British MEP leading the way.]]></description>
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