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few friends of the terrorist Prabhkaran, including HRW and AI, chagrined that
their champion was getting zapped by the rightfully elected
government of a sovereign country, were singing a song that
has no cedibility in the international community. The government
and the forces of Sri Lanka are, as they have always done,
doing everything they can to protect the civilians in the
war theater. It was the terrorist leader, who had no scruples,
morals or any other feelings for the people whom he has
appointed himself as the leader of, and sacrificed by often
using them a human shield to protect himself who should
be taken to task. But the logic of the situation has been
totally distorted by these "compassionates' in HRW,
and they have the effrontery to interfere with the decision
of the government of the sovereign nation of Sri Lanka in
its efforts to eradicate terrorism once and for all. The Sri Lankan military created world history by comprehensively defeating the world’s ‘most ruthless terrorist organisation’ (so baptised by the US State Department) and cleared the way for the country’s development. Now the Human Rights Watch has voiced concern that Sri Lanka is holding 280,000 people displaced by the fighting in camps.
Pipe down, guys! Brad Adams, the group's Asia director, You're way out of line in these times when
terrorism is receiving a bashing everywhere in the world.
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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Human
Rights Watch (HRW) was founded in 1988 but its origins date
to a seminal event in Cold War history, the Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe which was held in 'neutral'
Helsinki, Finland in July/August 1975. The Soviets went
along with it because the Helsinki Accords, as the final
agreement of this star-studded conference was popularly
known, recognized contemporary national borders as being
set and inviolable, thereby confirming Soviet suzerainty
in Eastern Europe. The Americans and their European allies,
for their part, pressed by a nervous West Germany, were
happy to see a ratcheting down of tensions in Europe.
No sooner
had the ink dried, the CIA, the KGB, and allied masters
of the dark arts started undermining the pact. The 'civil
rights' portion of the agreement, which the Soviets had
agreed to with great reluctance, was soon being used by
the West as a cat's paw to undermine Soviet power, especially
in Eastern Europe. The Moscow Helsinki Watch Group spawned
'human rights' groups in Eastern European capitals. Typically,
Western countries pronounced themselves quite beyond the
need of such patronizing supervision.
Human
Rights Watch descended directly from these NGOs that poked
about in the Soviet Union's nether regions. Its New York
base probably reflects its old CIA affiliations. Be that
as it may, HRW has done stellar work around the world during
the last 20 years in calling out when groups violate 'human
rights' (as it defines them). And there's the rub; human
rights for people with Judaeo-Christian sensibilities are
not necessarily the same as those of people with other backgrounds.
The right to life itself surely overrides more pedestrian
rights like the right to free expression, for free movement,
etc. but HRW often forgets that. And 'Western' causes get
a relatively free ride; the weak protests of HRW during
Israeli outrages against the Palestinian people contrast
starkly with its vehemence against Sri Lanka.
-Read Full Story- (HRWW)
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- Ambassador of India responds to Ms Navi Pillay's remarks on Sri Lanka at the UN in Geneva
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." - Double standards of the West
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.
- The SuperPower Bullies
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. - Physician heal thyself, hand over that nurse!- Island Editorial
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.
- West's cool reception to Sri Lanka's victory
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.
- Now that the LTTE is Crushed - Some Advice for the "Western Powers"
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.
- Mr. Bill Keller Executive Editor New York Times
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:
- Two victories and the battle on the media front
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.
- A phenomenal victory
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.
- Defeat for terrorism and international coup d'etat.
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. - Sinking Tigers and the straw of human rights
22 May 2009 -The Island Editorial -There was much ado about the UN Human Rights Council election at the time of going to press. Sri Lanka was trying her best to retain her seat. Her desperate struggle to avoid defeat was due to prestige and domestic political compulsions of the ruling party rather than anything else. Her defeat or victory will hardly signify anything, unless it is viewed through political glasses. - A battle of humanity Vs inhumanity
28-May-2009-Ranil WIJAYAPALA-The international media and even the so-called free media was worried as they were not given a free hand to report the battle and unimpeded access to the displaced. They were worried because the Sri Lankan Security Forces did not fight the battle the way they have dictated but continued the battle in the way they thought was right. Finally, the Sri Lankan Security Forces were proved right.
The so-called free media in the country were not aware that they have become puppets of the LTTE proxies who were funding their so-called organizations to scuttle the military efforts in defeating the LTTE . They might have not been aware that they were campaigning against their Motherland to drag it into a disaster.
- How the West was sidelined (for the moment)
18 May 2009-Prof Rajiva Wijesinha - Secretary General - Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process
A couple of years back, in Geneva, the British ambassador tried to have a resolution critical of Sri Lanka passed in the United Nations Human Rights Council. The danger passed, though we had to deal with repeated criticism of Sri Lanka, from a few countries and from a plethora of Non-Governmental Organisations. Some of these were international ones, such as Human Rights Watch, which had fired the first salvo in the attack on Sri Lanka when, fraudulently, it accused us of indiscriminate attacks on civilians. There were also some local ones, though we found out soon enough that many of them were funded precisely by those countries that wanted us subject to criticism. The most appalling example of this came to my notice when the head of the Berghof Foundation, Norbert Ropers, informed me that they had funded one such organisation, which they recognised was a surrogate for the LTTE, but this had been done in good faith when they thought that the LTTE could be democratised.
- HRC session on Sri Lanka ill-timed and unwarranted - Human Rights Minister
21 May 2009 -Courtesy : PRIU -The convening of a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to discuss 'The human rights situation in Sri Lanka" is ill-timed and unwarranted is the view of the Sri Lanka Government.
The Minister for Disaster Management and Human Rights Mahinda Samarasinghe said the realities in Sri Lanka., where more than 250,000 civilians had been liberated from the clutches of the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world, and the aftermath of the largest known hostage rescue operation in the world, gave no cause for any special discussion of the human rights situation in the country.
- Wonder boy of Channel 4 -NEWS SOURCE FOR HRW
20 May 2009- By: Rosie Stembo -The near 4 minute newscast on Channel 4 is a hostile staccato style outburst against the Sri Lanka military and is undistinguishable from the rhetoric originating from LTTE media sources. Even a semblance of a balancing act is absent to give even an iota of respectability; obvious intention is to discredit the Security Forces and prevent its onward march by hook or by crook. It is part of an act by the biased media to save Prabhakaran, the child snatcher.It cites nameless faceless unknown aid workers or unknown elderly mothers as sources. The words they utter on the footage are not meaningful until presenter decides to carry the narration according to his fancy. The "shots" of the sources on the newscast look patently juxtaposed to the rest of the footage.
- The suffering of civilians cornered by Human Rights Watch
19 May 2009- By: Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha- The Anglo American Corporation Human Rights Watch is now engaged in a campaign, along with its patrons, to denigrate Sri Lanka in the eyes of the Human Rights Council in Geneva. This follows its campaign throughout 2009 to dissuade civilians from leaving LTTE controlled territory to refuge with the Sri Lankan government.In both cases, the HRW agenda fits in with that of the LTTE. This may not be deliberate, but it is certainly convenient for the LTTE. Now that the LTTE is reduced to using the civilians it has entrapped, not just as a shield, but as a weapon of mass destruction, HRW has begun to issue lengthy descriptions of their suffering. It ignores completely its own contribution to this suffering, through its protracted campaign to suggest throughout 2008 that the civilians were as well off with the LTTE as they would be with Government.
- Human Rights Watch hell-bent on attacking Sri Lankan government
By Chandrani Gunaratna -19 May 2009-New York-based right organization Human Rights Watch yesterday (19) released yet another report on demanding to stop the "war" on civilians in Sri Lanka. The report quotes James Ross, legal and policy director at HRW as saying "This 'war' against civilians must stop. Sri Lankan forces are shelling hospitals and so-called safe zones and slaughtering the civilians there."
In a way it is comical how Human Rights Watch (HRW) beats the same drum over and over again when clearly there is evidence to show otherwise.
Within the last few days the ICRC and the UN openly accused the LTTE Terrorists shooting and killing the civilians who are trying to flee the murderous grip of LTTE. The UN and ICRC both said shells fell on the Puthukkudiyiruppu hospital but they were not certain who fired them. In one report the UN said shells killed 56 civilians but quietly retracted the report later.
- Sri Lanka & IMF Loan
14th May 2009 -Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G. Canada -Two days ago, around 10nish in the morning there was a knock on my front door. I opened the door and found two smartly dressed ladies hugging several slim publications, with two folio cases slung over their shoulders. They smiled and I greeted them with a smile.
The older one pushed a small brochure at me and said, “We just want to tell you that there is so much suffering in the world, and there is one person who could help all of us”. “Who is it?” I asked!
Pointing to the sky, she said, “its God”.
- Stop the bloodbath
14 May 2009 -G. de Silva -just wait till the Tamil Tigers are brought to justice and when the Sri Lanka Govt. publishes its findings about covert work undertaken by NGOs, INGOs and all the other "humanitarians" in the war torn parts of the country. We already know about how Anna Neistat (a self appointed guardian of the "TRUTH") of HRW travelled to Sri Lanka on forged travel documents. - UN Security Council refuses to swallow LTTE propaganda pills
12 May 2009 -Sri Lanka News -Top diplomats from Britain and France were rebuffed Monday (May 11), when UN Security Council members refused their request to discuss on the on-going hostage rescue operations in Sri Lanka, despite extensive and relentless LTTE propaganda efforts to spin tables in favour, expecting a breather for the internationally proscribed terrorist outfit now facing total defeat.
The council members that opposed taking up the issue were not named publicly.
- Human Right Watch's war on Sri Lanka
11 May 2009 -By: Dr. Chandrani Gunaratna -On the eve of the scheduled informal UN Security Council meeting on Sri Lanka where the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his French Counterpart Bernard Kouchner will attend on Monday May 11th, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) who is constantly attacking the Sri Lankan government has written, this time, to the Japanese Premier. - HRW: Useful Idiots and Ambassadors of Evil
11 May 2009 -Tilak Dias , Ph.D. -Wall Street Journal reported on May 05, 2009, that U.S air strikes had killed dozens of civilians in Afghanistan. This was attributed to the bombing runs carried out by U.S. led-coalition jets. The real number is not dozens but over a hundred according to Abdul Basir Khan, a member of the provincial council of Farah province. After reading this, my eyes glazed over the official websites of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International trying to find out their response to this tragedy. To my dismay, there was none. Not even a symbolic condemnation, let alone any action to prevent such a tragedy in the future. - Will HRW and AI charge the US for war crimes?
09 May 2009 -Simon Baker -Will HRW and AI charge the US for war crimes. A probe confirms deaths due to American airstrikes in Afghanistan: Afghan officials have estimated up to 147 people died in the battle in the western province of Farah on Monday.Saudi Arabia's leading newspaper The Arab News Said in an editorial, "stop killing and start caring about ordinary Afghans. Slaughtering them and then apologizing is contemptible."
Aren't civilians everywhere considered equal?
Will Human Rights Watch based in NY and Amnesty International based in London crucify us Americans for this?
What about war crimes? (Hope we get a free pass!)
- Anna Neistat
09 May2009 - Sybil Fawlty -To HRW, I read a news item about one of your top officials, Anna Neistat, who has been black listed by the Sri Lanka Govt. due to violation of its immigration laws and for forging travel documents. If this allegation is true, then it tells a lot about the operations of your organization. If you have to resort to this level of behavior then what you put out as "independent reports" must consist of questionable information and views. I am sure you will agree that such type of actions has a huge impact on HRW's integrity.
- Human Rights Watch official ban for violating immigration and emigration regulations
08.May.2009, 6.15pm Lanka-e-News -Sri Lankan authorities have taken steps to ban Sri Lanka for a lady official of Human Rights Watch who has entered into the country in a false identity submitting fake information.
- Lanka can ignore Foreign Ministers and Human Rights Watch
29 April 2009-H. L. D. Mahindapala-The Foreign Minister of UK,,David Milliband, and his French counterpart are due to land in Colombo today to put pressure on the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to halt the offensive against the Tamil Tigers who are on their knees begging for a cease fire. So the objectives of the Tamil Tigers and the two visiting Foreign Ministers coincide. Coincidentally, both parties are raising human rights issues as the rationale for halting the offensive.
Not surprisingly the Asia Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Brad Adams, has timed to announce a series of threats to the GOSL on the eve of their arrival. In his latest statement titled We cannot ignore Sri Lanka , he has threatened the GOSL with punitive measures if it does not yield to his political demands disguised as issues of human rights. He, in fact, goes out of his way to tell the visiting Foreign Ministers that they must "deliver a strong message to GOSL" on the following lines
- Human Rights Watch uses barbed missiles against Sri Lanka
28th April 2009 Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -Like the proverbial pig sticking its snout into swill, Human Rights Watch has leapt with glee onto the recent declaration by the Sri Lankan government that its security forces ‘have been instructed to end the use of heavy weapons’. HRW has immediately concluded that “By finally admitting it has been using heavy weapons all along, the Sri Lanka government has shed light onto its official deception as well as its brutal military tactics.” This was the delightfully dense Brad Adams, who does not understand that not only was the government using heavy weapons, it has indeed reported regularly on its achievements through such means. - Devil's Logic triumphs on Easter Sunday
15th April 2009 -Tilak Dias Ph.D.-Some governments in the West spearheaded by the UK and Norway appeared to have given momentum to the malicious disinformation campaign of terrorists and its Diaspora. Their cohorts like HRW and UNO have also jumped in the bandwagon. As the pressure mounted, the Sri Lankan military and humanitarian operations came to an abrupt pause over the Easter Sunday. The Sri Lankan military has been carrying out a rescue operations of civilians, hitherto unseen in any civil conflict in the world while conducting a successful offensive against the most barbaric terrorist group which has held Tamil civilians as a human shield. It is not intriguing as to why these humanitarians have failed to see the truth. The Devil's Logic which sees evil as good and good as evil is the main reason. That is what prevailed over the Eastern Sunday in Sri Lanka.
- Human Rights Watch: Can't Count; Can't differentiate; Can't Tell the Truth!
14th April 2009 - Ramanie de Zoysa - The latest press release issued by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on 9 April 2009 was another Sri Lankan Government bashing using the usual ammunition of half truths, outright lies, and unbelievable capers; the only concocted "eyewitnesses" being two Tamil moles posing off as doctors in the war zone trading highly fabricated statistics for payoffs in one form or another. HRW has made up to 143,000 civilians "vanish"; or a severe case of inability to count?
- HRW stop deceiving the world and stop being the terrorist mouth piece
11th April 2009-Ben Silva UK -I am referring to the HRW report at
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/04/09/sri-lanka-stop-shelling-no-fire-zone
Not only the Sri Lankan army has to face the heavy artillery fired from the "no-fire zone" by LTTE terrorists, they also have to face a verbal barrage of abuse and false reporting from bogus human rights groups such as HRW, who are simply parroting LTTE propaganda. HRW simply do not have the nerve to tell their apparent pay masters LTTE, to release the civilians from the iron grip of LTTE. Did HRW tell the coalition forces to stop killing over 100000 Iraqi civilians and to stop torturing them ?
- Blake, Boucher, Human Rights Watch and All those who ask for a Ceasefire now want terrorism to continue in Sri Lanka. Why ?
11th April 2009 -By Charles.S.Perera -While this circus continues in the Parliament Square in London , in a small stretch of land in Puthukkudiyiruppu, some thousand s of Tamil Civilians are being held at gunpoint by the LTTE terrorists as their presence in the area, is for the terrorists the only means to save their skins in an inevitable death or capture by the armed forces, in the final count down on terrorism in Sri Lanka, which has lasted for the last thirty years. Now about the Camps of the IDPs, the personal publicity seeking Brad Adams, Charulata Hogg, Anna Neistat and other activists of the Human Rights Watch, have begun to call the camps of IDPs' concentration camps. They have "peanut" brains and cannot understand the tremendous impact of thousands of people that had been kept under gun point by brutal terrorists for years escaping in to areas controlled by the Armed Forces, seeking assistance, security and protection. - UN: Rights Council turns its back on victims of the double standards of Human Rights Watch
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 - Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP)-The Human Rights Council concluded another disappointing session last week by allowing serious discussion of Human Rights issues to be clouded by insistent attacks on selected countries by certain non-Governmental NGOs. Although the President of the Council on occasion called to order some NGOs that engaged in diatribes that had nothing to do with the subjects under debate, he was unable to create a strong monitoring mechanism to address abuse of privileges by Human Rights Watch and other human rights extremists.
- What John Kerry, Pillay and HRW et al have now proven beyond doubt is that a 'human shield' is a great weapon for terrorists
26 March 2009-Ramanie de Zoysa-it was a 'human catastrophe' all this time- for 25 long years- not only when the Sri Lankan Government Forces have come this close to eliminating the terrorist. Ban ki Moon or his melancholy predecessor Kofi Annan never had any 'concern' expressed for either the destruction of civilian livelihoods or the lives; nor did they express any 'concern' on the complete absence of 'development' in these areas where so many 'humanitarian' groups worked so 'tirelessly' for such little output. UNHC for Human Rights did not know about these people then; nor did John Kerry, Hilary Clinton, Rev Desmond Tutu, Gordon Brown, Gareth Evans or Keith Vaz. - Response to the IMF regarding HRW letter
March 24, 2009 -Wick Gankanda, Senior software engineer Los Angeles, California, USA- I am writing regarding the letter by Mr. Brad Adams, the Executive Director of Human Right Watch pertaining to emergency support loan request by Sri Lanka.I also read the letter by HRW of New York to the IMF and found it to be very inaccurate and misleading. Therefore my objective today is to counter many allegations made by HRW and convince you to fully support the Sri Lankan government.
- Human Right Watch is now trying to block the IMF loan
24-March-2009-Dr. Chandrani Gunaratna-Their 'reliable' new information came from a doctor at the makeshift hospital in Putumatalam who over the phone told the HRW 'that dozens of dead and wounded civilians were being brought to the hospital daily.'
There is no doubt the 'reliable' information was received from the same doctor who supplies exaggerated casualty figures to Associated Press and BBC. HRW says shells fell 250 meters away from the makeshift hospital while the doctor was on the phone with the HRW.
- Terrorists versus Civilians
23rd March 2009 -Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP)-It seems as though every man and his dog is worried about Sri Lankan civilians. Opening a newspaper without running into a statement expressing concern at their fate is almost impossible now, and not only in this country. Our civilians are on the minds of the entire world community, apparently from Great Danes to Yorkshire Terriers, and words of concern just keep flooding out of their mouths. If this attention helped to relieve suffering, or saved even one life, the Government would be delighted.
- Wrong again, Miss Hogg
16 March 2009-Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP)-For a long time, organisations like Human Rights Watch looked no worse than sadly misguided. Their intellectual capacities obviously weren't up to the analysis of basic facts, and their unshakeable belief in the fundamental goodness of humankind led them to assume that terrorists couldn’t be as dangerous as they seemed, but their intentions weren't really in doubt. Lately, however, it has become clear that they must have some other agenda.
- This self-perpetuating conspiracy of apparent plutocrats must stop:
12th March 2009-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha-Like Human Rights Watch, which with unlimited resources produced a glossy book of Sri Lankan disappearances in early 2008, only three of which related to 2007, IFJ too must stop trotting out age old figures that take attention away from the few real problems we now face.
This self-perpetuating conspiracy of apparent plutocrats must stop, Mr President, and I hope you will ensure that we can go back to constructive dialogue instead of the finger-pointing that we sadly need to respond to, before it is broadcast indiscriminately by terrorist forces, which have only these particular cluster bombs now in their active arsenal."
- We are tired of hypocrisy and double dealing: Sri Lanka at UN Human Rights Council
12th March 2009-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights-We have found that NGOs profiting from the generosity of citizens of such countries, and also from UN funding, claim to have been engaged in advocacy but can show nothing positive for their millions. We are tired, Mr President, of hypocrisy and double dealing that take advantage of the humanism of world citizens.
- Return of Gareth Evans resurrection of terror
12 March 2009-Prof. Rajiva WIJESINHA-Once again the International Crisis Group has pronounced on Sri Lanka, bang on cue after the other usual suspects. Most negative of these was Human Rights Watch which is a specialist, along with ICG, in purporting to be balanced. In fact they both persist in treating an elected government on a par with the terrorists they thus privilege. - Letter from SCOPP SG to Ms. Juliette de Rivera, Director (HRW) dated Sept. 12, 2007
12-September-2007-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha-I trust you received my last letter following our meeting in Geneva. Youmay not have had time to take it up with your Executive Director,.... - Letter from SCOPP SG to Director (HRW) dated Sept. 10, 2007
10-September-2007-Prof Rajiv Wijesinha-It was a pleasure to meet you in Geneva on September 5th, and I hope... - Letter from SCOPP SG to Brad Adams ( HRW) dated August 13, 2007
13-August-2007-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha-Thank you for your letter sent in response to my fax expressing.... - Letter from Brad Adams (HRW) to SCOPP SG dated August 9, 2007
09-August-2007-Brad Adams-Thank you for your letter dated August 7,2007. Despite differences... - Letter from SCOPP SG to Brad Adams ( HRW) dated August 7, 2007
07-August-2007-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha- I Read with some sadness your release..... - How dare the Tamils of the diaspora, or any one else compare the Government Welfare Centres in Vanni, to Concentration Camps ?
11-March-2009-Charles.S.Perera -The Human Righgts watch and ICRC making statements supportive of the terrorists are responsible for giving a life line to the terrorists who had today killed 70 of our soldiers and 200 of the misled youth
terrorist . Why cannot these "all knowing" wise gangs of the ICRC and the Humans rights watch, condemn out right the terrorists ( who they dare not call terrorists) and ask them to surrender to the government forces and allow the civilians to escape into the government controlled areas and safety ?
- Entrapped Civilians Brave Tamil Tiger Bullets to Seek Safety
07 March 2009-Mahinda Gunasekera, Honorary President, SLUNA Canada-University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) gave an impartial account on the Sri Lankan situation to the IANS News Service. While the H.R.W. Report demanded a cease fire and peace talks, the UTHR (Jaffna) observed, "... Presently, the indications we have are that the people want an end to the war but are wary of peace talks and cease fires with the LTTE... Previous peace talks had only given oxygen and a free run to the LTTE..." Referring to the ruthless behaviour of LTTE cadres and shooting of escaping civilians the UTHR (Jaffna) commented "... generally the behaviour of the soldiers at entry points has been exceptionally good..."
- The great white authorities of Human Rights Watch
06 March 2009-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha- During the Interactive Debate on the Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva yesterday, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General of the Peace Secretariat and Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, commented on remarks made by Non-Governmental Organisations. - A reply to Caroll Bogert of Human Rights Watch , and an Invitation for Commonwealth Leaders to disregard her claim.
04 March 2009-By Charles.S.Perera-Carroll Bogert, associate director of the US-based group Human Rights Watch, says innocent Sri Lankan villagers face war from two sides as they flee fighting between the militant Tamil Tigers and the government. It is strange that in a world that is enmeshed in war, terrorism, and aggression, the Human Rights Watch finds violation of human rights only in Sri Lanka.
- Kyrgyztan calls Human Rights Watch's bluff, twice
04 March 2009-Ajit Randeniya-The Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security refused entry in to the country of the Russian-based, so-called human rights "defender" Vitalii Ponomarev (a HRW agent) upon his arrival at Manas airport, declared him "persona non grata" and deported with orders not to come back. It was the second time in five months that the Kyrgyz authorities have refused entry to the "defender" who dared to attempt entry in to Kyrgyzstan just a month after publishing a slanderous report about "religious persecution and torture" in the country! - Terrorism, Sri Lanka and disinformation by HRW
03 March 2009-Ben Silva UK-You are barking up the wrong tree if you are blaming the victim. Have you not understood that LTTE, one of the deadliest terror organisations in the world, [FBI] is attempting to carve out a part of Sri Lanka for a mono ethnic racist state ? LTTE is funded by global Tamils numbering about 100 million. - Hearings of the USA Foreign Relations sub Committee on Sri Lank was a trial at bar without the Accused being called to defend.
01 March 2009-By Charles.S.Perera-Next it was Ms. Anna Niestat of the Human Rights Watch. She started a harrowing story she had heard from another. A woman, after artillery fire, putting her head out of a bunker in which she was hiding, saw a woman lying on her stomach dead, with a child dead beside her, and another decapitated, and half a body of a child on the branch of a tree. She stopped either to thinking of more harrowing details to add, or to dramatise the instance of horror. She then continued what she had heard from others . She said that about 200,000 Tamil civilians are concentrated in a small area and they have neither food nor medicine.
- The secretive anonymity of Human Rights Watch
01 March 2009-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process-Human Rights Watch, standard bearers of what Michael Roberts has characterised as HRE - Human Rights Extremism - seems to have decided that it has a special relationship with me. This is of a piece with their previous dodging of any engagement with me. Eighteen months ago, HRW failed to respond when I proved, from their own report, that their sensationalistic release about the Sri Lankan forces indiscriminately targeting civilians was totally false. Even more tellingly, they cancelled a discussion on Sri Lanka that they had arranged in the British House of Commons, when they heard that the Foreign Minister had asked me to attend. The official from our High Commission who had been liaising with them, and found first Sir Nigel Rodley dropping out, and then Human Rights Watch abandoning the event, thought they feared I would be excessively critical.
- Bring back the clowns - Human Rights Watch returns to the ring
26th February 2009-By: Prof Rajiva Wijesinha-
Human Rights Watch has once again dropped a beautifully timed cluster bomb on Sri Lanka. Often these explosives coincide with the sessions of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, and this year is no exception, though we can also detect a tendency to try to prevent the Sri Lankan Forces from dealing conclusively with a terrorist threat.
- SHAME ON YOU ANNA NEISTAT & BOB DIETZ FOR BOMBARDING US FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE HEARING ON SRI LANKA WITH LIES
26th February 2009-Shripal Nishshanka Fernando -Few minutes ago, the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations adjourned hearings on 'Recent Development in Sri Lanka' and three persons comprising two liars who unfairly criticize Sri Lanka were called as witnesses at the hearing. - LTTE Terrorists propaganda by Human Rights Watch
21st February 2009-John MacKinnon-To: Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch
Once again the Human Rights Watch has allowed themselves to be taken for a ride by the LTTE Terrorists by falsely claiming that the Sri Lankan armed forces have attacked civilians. In fact the armed forces have protected and cared for the civilians and there is plenty of evidence to prove that.
- Signs of the Times
19th February 2009-Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the
Peace Process-Yet another splendid example of the misuse of the English language emerged last week with an article in the Times (in the UK) headlined "Barbed wire villages raise fears of refugee concentration camps". The first line of the article was in the passive voice - "Sri Lanka was accused yesterday of planning concentration camps to hold 200,000 ethnic Tamil refugees from its northeastern conflict zone for up to three years - and seeking funding for the project from Britain." - "Concentration Camps" cry the Subversive Terrorist "Tabloids" Shifting gears from last week's "Genocide"
17th February 2009-by Hela Puwath-
Now that the escaping civilians are coming out with true stories about terrorist atrocities of how they were held against their will, forced labor, forced conscription, shooting of catholic nuns, and shooting of helpless women and children trying to escape the misery. That section of terrorist supporting international (and some local) media are already shifting gears from last week's "Genocide", to "Concentration Camps".
- The Cluster Bomb Game
09 February 2009-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General' Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process-UN spokesman Gordon Weiss told Daily Mirror that based on information received from UN ground staff the bombs hit the area surrounding the hospital; the extent of the damage caused or of casualties if any were however not known'.
The use of 'However' and 'later' there is masterly, but that may have been journalistic interpretation rather than the tireless Weiss. He must however be a complete idiot if he does not realise that, if according to the UN cluster bombs hit the vicinity of the Hospital, but the UN accepted the government assurance it did not use such weapons, the culprits in the UN view must be either the LTTE or the UN itself. Since neither of these as far as we know now has aerial bombing capacity, someone must be lying. To us it is obvious that it is either the LTTE (speaking through the poor UN staff) or those staff on their own, whether the local ones in PTK or the foreign ones here
- Human Rights Watch Report "Trapped & Mistreated"
24th Decenber 2008-By Malin Abeyatunge-
Human Rights Watch latest 17 page reports titled "Trapped and Mistreated"(as per extract reproduced by print media) shows at last they now see LTTE terrorist outfit in its true colors. It is pleased to learn that HRW has at last made some endeavour to see the LTTE's human rights violation in its true perspective. If one peruses HRW's previous Media Releases or reports, there was tendency of showing complacency on LTTE's gross human rights violation but was only critical of the operations of GoSL against LTTE. GoSL. - The systemic abuses of Human Rights Watch, the individual aberrations of Amnesty International
09 September 2008-Prof Rajiva Wijesinha,
Secretary-General,
Secretariat for Co-ordinating the Peace Process -The moral authority that we would all like NGOs concerned with Human Rights to exercise has sadly been eroded in recent years. This has coincided with the apotheosis of such organizations into recognized players on the world stage. Unfortunately a mechanism designed to enhance their stature has led in many cases to their being prey for skilful lobbyists, anxious to bend their pronouncements to purposes that have little to do with Rights. Countries that can influence such organizations, through funding or more subtle means, have also got into the act, and we find that increasingly organizations that should look after the Rights of all are selective about their pronouncements. Not entirely surprisingly, such selectivity is often at the expense of countries that strive to remain independent of the dominant consensus.
- The Human Rights Watch Syndrome
26 November 2008 -Communications Division, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -Some people really seem to delight in recounting our problems. Instead of appreciating progress, they bash us over the head with still to be obtained goals. And at considerable length. The situation is never improving in their eyes. We are either already bad or getting a lot worse, and no practical suggestions are offered to help us recover. Rhetorical flourishes are the only things we are given by these characters. They love nothing better than wallowing in a bit of good old misery.
- Letter to Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch
12 August 2008-Prof Rajiva Wijesinha,
Secretary,
Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights-We reproduce a letter sent by SG, SCOPP, in his capacity of Secetary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, to Human Rights Watch in response to its recent press release regarding the journalist J S Tissainayagam.
- Investigators Claim That Elements Close To LTTE Were Campaigning That Dead Suicide Bomber Was Abducted By Government Goons And Now Missing
11th August 2008-By Walter Jayawardhana-Extensive investigations conducted by number of detectives have concluded that a name of a suicide cadre who died in an attack few months ago has been used as a missing person's name in a human right's campaign against the government , the Ministry of Defense said. - Carnival Time for HRW
07 July 2008 -Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary-General,Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Proces-Our old friends Human Rights Watch are at it again. Last week saw a spate of releases targeting Sri Lanka, timed it seem to put the kybosh on what seem successes both internally and internationally in our struggle against terrorism. - Human Rights Watch Has Spoken Out Of Turn And Should Focus Their Attentions Elsewhere With A Felt Need!
May 20th 2008-Insight By Sunil Kumar -The rights group Human Rights Watch has surely spoken out of turn as they sometimes do in taking the liberty to proclaim that UN members should reject Sri Lanka's re-election bid to the world body's Human Rights Council. This rights group has blatantly accused the Sri Lankan Administration of being responsible for 'widespread abductions and disappearances' which they have not really classified nor clarified probably because the accusations are mostly hearsay with no tangible proof - Indiscriminate attacks by Human Rights Watch
07 May 2008 -by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary-General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -The latest Human Rights Watch report on Sri Lanka, issued as a submission to the UN Human Rights Council in connection with the Universal Periodic Review of Sri Lanka, repeats several canards that have been refuted in the past, with no response from HRW to the detailed rebuttal of their falsehoods. In particular it begins its offensive by claiming that ‘Sri Lanka security forces have conducted indiscriminate bombing and shelling resulting in civilian casualties’.
- The White Man's Burden
07 April 2008 - Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes towards abuses and impunity,
Over the last few months I have had to travel quite a lot, which has allowed me greater access to foreign papers than I had enjoyed for a long time. Coincidentally, on almost every trip I came across descriptions of inadequacies with regard to the protection of human rights on the part of Britain and America. In fairness to the Anglo-Saxon world, I wondered whether, had I read French or German papers, I would have seen similar allegations about those countries. At the same time I realize that Anglo-Saxons tend to beat their breasts (and those of others) more dramatically than most, perhaps secure in the knowledge that their control of the world will allow them to limit the damage (to themselves, though not to others), as required.
- Facts Versus False Allegations Regarding Targeting of Civilians
04 April 2008-Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General
Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -In a range of falsehoods and exaggerations, perhaps the most insidious is the claim that the Sri Lankan armed forces deliberately target civilians.The press release issued by this Secretariat last year when HRW first floated this canard is appended to this release. Objective observers will notice how HRW began by personalizing the conflict with a gratuitous attack on the President and the Secretary of Defence, and how the main body of their report included only one example of the ‘indiscriminate attacks’ they allege. It will also be noticed that, as was borne out by the regular reports of the Scandinavian Monitoring Mission throughout military operations in the East, no other instances of civilian casualties were reported.
- HRW's Dirty War and the Clean Record of the Sri Lankan Army
08 August 2007-Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General
Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace - Process Amongst the more outrageous statements of the Human Rights Watch in its recent statement headlined 'Sri Lanka: Government Abuses Intensify' was the claim that "The Sri Lankan government has apparently given its security forces a green light to use 'dirty war' tactics". This was said by Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The release claims that 'President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, have pursued military operations in the country's north and east , with little regard for the security of the civilian population. Security forces have subjected civilians to indiscriminate attacks'.
- The state of Human Rights in Sri Lanka
26 March 2008 Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General
Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process Since Sri Lanka is to be subject in a few weeks to the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations Human Rights Council, it has been the subject of a spate of attacks by many organizations with interests in this subject. Though many of them repeat the same points, with more or less exaggeration and unwarranted generalization, it is sadly necessary to respond in detail to as many of them as possible. This paper will address the issues put forward by the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum. Sadly its confrontational approach, beginning in the very first paragraph with a sectarian characterization of the current government that insinuates it is not concerned about all Sri Lankan citizens, suggests that its assertions should be treated with care.
- Louise Arbour as a political football
12 October 2007 Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha The Sri Lankan government recently invited the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Sri Lanka. The poor lady is now here, and has found herself the focus of a series of articles in which she is presented as the potential saviour of the Sri Lankan people. Her visit is presented for instance as a test for the political leadership of the country. No matter that simultaneously this claimant declares that the ‘political intellect of the country has sunk to its lowest depths…the political intellect remains in a state of stupor.’ - Louise Arbour's diabolical project
10th October 2007 Louise Arbour, former prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, today United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, arrives in Colombo today.she has already proclaimed her intention to press the Government of Sri Lanka to open a field office under her authority to "protect" the citizens of Sri Lanka, implying that the Government of Sri Lanka is not capable of protecting its own citizens!
- Internecine Racism in Sri Lanka: the LTTE's attacks on Tamils
25 September 2007
Statement by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, exercising the right of reply on behalf of the Sri Lankan delegation, during the debate under Item 6 on Racism, 25th September 2007 - Response to Misplaced NGO Criticism
Statement by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha 25th September 2007
Statement by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, exercising the right of reply on behalf of the Sri Lankan delegation, during the debate under Item 4 on Human Rights situations that require the attention of the Human Rights Council, 24th September 2007.
- The Advice Of Pundits A Hindrance Towards Implementing The Tasks At Hand
LankaWeb Editorial
17th August 2005 Amidst all the goings on in the aftermath of the Kadirgamar assassination. almost incredibly the New York based organization Human Rights Watch seems to have entered uninvited, the fray of the turmoil within Sri Lanka using the excuse of protecting the Tamils living in Government controlled areas according to latest indications!
- The Geneva Battle
Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Sri Lanka's Ambassador /Permanent Representative to the UN Geneva (Speaking) and Prof.Rajiva Wijesinha Secretary General - SCOPP
18th December 2007
The success of Sri Lanka's aggressively independent stance was reflected in the outcome of the 6th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that concluded Friday.
- AI and HRW, Stop Violating Our Rights
Dilrook Kannangara
10th April 2007
In a pathetic display of a miserable diversion from what they ought to stand for, AI and HRW have degenerated to the lowest ebb of morale. I refer to how they attempt to discredit Sri Lankans, our nation and the Sri Lanka Cricket team by launching a smear campaign in the West Indies. Cricketers have nothing to do with human rights and AI/HRW bluebottles have no right to demoralise them. The proper game for AI/HRW to poke their dirty fingers is the game played by suicide bombers.
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH HAS PUBLISHED A COMPLETE FABRICATION OF A SHOUTING INCIDENT SAYS SRI LANKA
11th -August 2007
Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said that an incident reported in the New York based Human Rights Watch about a purported shouting incident by the country’s President at a newspaper editor is a complete fabrication. Director of Information Anusha Palpita who was also present at the meeting wrote to Human Rights Watch and said, “As a person who was present at the editor's meeting with the President, I totally deny such an incident at the said meeting.
Publication of such baseless canards in your website reflects very badly on the credibility of the organization." - New York Based Human Rights Watch's Exposure Of The LTTE Long Overdue!
17-March-2006 Nandimithra Perera ~Popular Front Against Terrorism In Sri Lanka (PFATISL) For LankaWeb It is not only the The plight of the Tamils in the diaspora threatened by the LTTE which has at last been documented and exposed by the New York based Human Rights Watch as reported by the Asian Tribune but also the blatant indiscretions which have continued for decades by these so called Western Nations who pawned the plight of the non LTTE supportive Tamils towards their own purposes and projected many undiscerning innocent victims to live in fear and uncertainty. All kudos to HRW and may their projected aspirations towards truly exposing the LTTE as well as any other similar outfits of terror and mayhem result in the complete eradication of International terrorism.This is a small step in the right direction which will undoubtedly be rewarded greatly and from which Sri Lanka is bound to benefit immensely alongside all other countries plagued with the wretched manifestations and infestations of global terrorism!
- The Following is a Letter from SCOPP Secretary General Rajiva Wijesinha to the International Herald Tribune Regarding the Proposed Visit to Sri Lanka of Charu Hogg
20 August 2007
The Editor International Herald Tribune
Dear Sir, The IHT.com article by Charu Hogg regarding the Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka makes interesting reading, though the mixture of fact and fiction perhaps justifies Ms Hogg’s arriving here on a tourist visa to complete her research in this field.
Though datelined August 15th, the article does not take into account the refutations of salient points in her report which I sent to Brad Adams, the Director of the institute for which she works. I had for instance challenged the assertions of the sensationalistic press release that accompanied the release of the report, which alleged indiscriminate attacks which led to displacement, after which ‘Government authorities have forced some to return to areas that remain insecure’.
- HRW's Dirty War and the Clean Record of the Sri Lankan Army
08 August 2007
Amongst the more outrageous statements of the Human Rights Watch in its recent statement headlined ‘Sri Lanka: Government Abuses Intensify’ was the claim that “The Sri Lankan government has apparently given its security forces a green light to use 'dirty war' tactics". This was said by Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The release claims that ‘President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, have pursued military operations in the country’s north and east , with little regard for the security of the civilian population... Security forces have subjected civilians to indiscriminate attacks'.
- Human Rights Watch Report Contradictory and Misleading - Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) in Sri Lanka
The Human Rights Watch report on Sri Lanka is misleading and rife with contradictions and could be used by organizations like the LTTE and others that seek support to disrupt democratically elected governments like that of Sri Lanka, SCOPP Secretary General Rajiva Wijesinha said in a letter to the U.S. based human rights group.
Human
Rights VS the right to life
Sri Lanka refutes misleading claims
The Permanent Mission of
Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva 11th December
2007
Mr Chairman, everyone prescribes for Sri Lanka,
while not everyone studies our situation deeply. We are as you
know in the throes of dealing with a very violent terrorist movement.
Other countries, dealing with proportionately less dangerous,
proportionately less murderous, organizations, have had to make
adjustments with regard to the rights they have striven to uphold,
and we are no exception. However, we continue aware of the importance
of human rights, and welcome all assistance to maintain these,
whilst we continue with our struggle against terrorism that is
so destructive of perhaps the most fundamental right of all, the
right to life -Full
Report-(HRWW)
How
to Kill Civilians in the Name of Human Rights: Lessons from
Sri Lanka
Michael Radu, Ph.D., is Co-Chair
of FPRIs Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland
Security
After a conflict of more than a quarter of a century of terrorism
and civil war that killed 70,000 people, Sri Lankans finally think
they have defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),
perhaps the worlds most murderous terrorist organization. Why
and how a small country of 21 million succeeded in defeating such
a group where much bigger powers have failed is a good lesson
for those who study terrorism and counterinsurgency. These lessons
are primarily political and legal, but also military and diplomatic,
and they include both successes and pitfalls in a small countrys
road to peace and development. Key to understanding why the LTTE
lasted for so long and why India was involved in Sri Lanka on
and off at various times is the fact that some 60 million Tamils
live in three southern Indian states, primarily Tamil Nadu, and
many of those support the LTTE out of ethnic solidarity. Equally,
if not more, important, there is a large (ca. 800,000) Sri Lankan
Tamil diaspora, mostly in Canada, the UK, Australia, the U.S.,
and southeast Asia. This diaspora is radicalized and, like most
diasporas living in safety, more radical than co-nationals in
the country of origin. It still provides the funds, propaganda
support, and public relations vital to the LTTE’s survival.-Full
Story-(fpri.org/)
ALLEGED
VIOLATIONS OF SRI LANKA PALE IN COMPARISON TO BABARITY OF TIGERS
SAYS WASHINGTON TIMES
By Walter Jayawardhana
What human-rights
violations the Sri Lanka government may have to answer for, however,
pale in comparison to the barbarity of the Tamil Tigers, who pioneered
the use of the suicide bomb and have a track record of kidnapping
children and turning them into soldiers, said a strongly worded
editorial published in the Washington Times. The editorial that
was published on the July 12 issue of the newspaper has been written
in response to a letter written by Congressman Rush Holt and 49
other congressmen to President Bush requesting greater involvement
in Sri Lanka.-Full
Story-(14-07-07-LankaWeb.com)
Tamil
Terrorism In Sri Lanka -Full
Story-(LankaWeb.com)
PRO-TERRORIST
ACTVITIES OF UN and UNESCO IN SRI LANKA
-Full Story- (LankaWeb.com)
High
Drama in the Human Rights Council of the United Nations
-Full Story-(LankaWeb.com)
Allan
Rock's Accusation -FullStory-(LankaWeb.com)
UN's
Lousie Arbour -Full
Story-(LankaWeb.com)
Federal
Bureau of Investigation TAMING THE TAMIL TIGERS From Here in the
U.S-
Full Story- (FBI)
Gareth
Evans, President of International Crisis Group (ICG) - Crisis
Expert and Export Crisis?-FullStory-(LankaWeb.com)
International
News Mafia How they distort news reports -Full
Story-(LankaWeb.com)
Why
India is reponsible for Problems in South Asia Indias unconventional
war strategy -Full
Story-(LankaWeb.com)
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