Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Maj. Gen. Shavendra Silva To The UN



By Jamila Najmuddin | Daily Mirror
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Major General Shevendra Silva has been appointed as Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York and will take up his new post soon, sources at the External Affairs Ministry told Daily Mirror online this evening.

Major General Silva’s appointment to the UN comes amidst human rights allegations being raised against the government and the military which resulted in UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon appointing a panel to advise him on Sri Lanka.



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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

23 nails in body of tortured Sri Lankan maid



By Md Rasooldeen | Arab News
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Doctors in Sri Lanka have found 23 nails in the body of a tortured housemaid who returned to Colombo from Riyadh, Sri Lankan Embassy sources told Arab News on Tuesday.

“We have received this complaint from the Foreign Ministry in Colombo, who said the maid has been allegedly tortured by her sponsor,” a senior diplomat from the Sri Lankan mission in Riyadh told Arab News. “We are looking for the sponsor. We were able to track down the Saudi recruitment agent in Riyadh and we will summon the sponsor to discuss this issue,” the official said.


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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Cultural and psychological attack on Tamils in Jaffna



Tamil Net
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A Tamil diaspora visitor who recently went to see the archaeological site at Kantharoadai in the heart of Jaffna peninsula found all signboards in the site in Sinhalicized Sinhala. Further, he was asked to remove shoes to walk the site, indicating that this important heritage site of the people of Jaffna is fast becoming a cult centre of contemporary Sinhala-Budhhism to culturally and psychologically alienate the people of Jaffna from their land. Ancient remains of Buddhism in Tamil land are not a cultural property of today’s genocidal Sinhala-Buddhism. What is happening in Jaffna is perhaps the ‘reconciliation’, meant by the ‘culture and development’ pundits, commented an academic in Jaffna.

The Tamil name of the archaeological site is Kantharoadai, meaning the pond of Kanthar.


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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Sri Lanka embassy in US brings popular Americans to Lanka



The Bottom Line
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The Embassy of Sri Lanka in the United States on Friday brought in 25 well known American media personalities into Sri Lanka on a 9-day visit, a measure which it said could give immense publicity to the island- consequently, a boost for the booming Tourism industry. The set of tourists includes famous film producer, William Bowling (who is a key figure in deciding locations for film shoots) and other popular travel writers on various internet blogs and magazines including Margie Goldsmith, who writes to the website mgproductions.com.

“It is our pleasure to bring this group of American travellers to Sri Lanka, and I look forward to introducing these travellers to our island of unrivalled splendour and our welcoming culture. I know our journey will be an eye-opening experience that will highlight Sri Lanka’s boundless potential,” said Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, who personally accompanied the guests on tour.


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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Sri Lanka: A cursory commission and star witness



By Sutirtho Patranobis | Hindustan Times
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In Colombo, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) records evidence from witnesses at the sprawling, white-washed 'Lighthouse' bungalow, a colonial era mansion used by the British. When I walked in last week to hear defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa depose before the panel, the air was relaxed, almost informal and security checks cursory.

Welcoming enough, I thought, for someone to saunter in and tell the LLRC without fear or favour why the ceasefire agreement (CFA) with the LTTE failed and the war continued for several bleeding months.



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