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At the Commonwealth summit, the human rights proselytisers no longer hold sway | John Kampfner
Written on 30 Oct, 2011 at 19:06 in English, Full Article News, UK, Uncategorized, Undecided | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Perth summit reveals how compromised western leaders are in their efforts to promote human rights
The death knell of the Commonwealth has been sounded for as long as there have been summits. By accident rather than design, this anachronistic gathering of 54 states may actually say more about the state of global priorities than the participants realise. And the direction of travel is grim.
At their meeting in Perth over the weekend, the leaders rejected...
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Australian Racism v Sri Lankan Racism
Written on 19 Oct, 2011 at 21:59 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
| by Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
(October 20, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) Senior Retired Australians Bruce Haigh and Gordon Weiss have published their thinking on the issue of War Crimes Allegations against Senior Sri Lankans with official Sri Lankan positions. Once, a senior staff member of Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission investigating my complaints against Justice Kirby said to me that I would like Justice Kirby if I sat next to him on the plane and got talking...
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Oceanic Viking Tamils still stranded in Romania
Written on 21 Feb, 2011 at 3:00 in Australia, English, Uncategorized, Undecided, miniNews | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Ten Sri Lankan asylum seekers involved in the Oceanic Viking stand-off in 2009 are still waiting to be resettled and remain in detention in Romania....
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SL Expats Asked To Stand Against Adverse Propaganda
Written on 22 Dec, 2010 at 3:50 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
A government minister has called on Sri Lankan expatriates to stand against adverse propaganda carried out by LTTE sympathizers.
Irrigation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva addressing the gathering at the launch of the SLFP website in Melbourne, Australia has called on the Sri Lankan expatriates to render their duty and responsibility to their country.
He has said that their relatives and friends living back in Sri Lanka expected them to perform their duty to the country.
De Silva has noted that following the...
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Interview with Michael Roberts
Written on 15 Dec, 2010 at 0:00 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Prof. Michael Roberts, in addition to his academic writing and research, is well-known political commentator in Sri Lanka. He is also a regular contributor to this site. In the incredibly violent days of the war in early 2009, two of Michael’s submissions (Dilemma’s at war’s end: Thoughts on hard realities and Dilemmas at wars end: Clarifications & counter-offensive) provided some of the most explosive...
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Political Solution
Written on 14 Dec, 2010 at 18:33 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
(December 15, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) We hear calls for a Political Solution for Sri Lanka. As a commoner I ask myself ‘what is a political solution?’.
In common terminology, to me decisions are based on belief and merit basis. Belief is identification with Truth within. Truth connects us naturally to each other and often without us being conscious of it. Once we pass the borders of belief, we...
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Sivanayagam of Tamil Eelam
Written on 9 Dec, 2010 at 21:50 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
The Tamil Sivanayagam and Kanthasamy, and the Sinhalese Wijemanne, are hard acts to follow, but it must be done, it has to be done. A dreadful Sinhala junta, drenched with the blood of thousands of innocent Tamils whose only crime was that they were born Tamil in the North and East, cannot be allowed to succeed.
Mentally Ill Psychiatrists?
Written on 9 Dec, 2010 at 21:21 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
" The mind is a combination of our inner Truth and the external observed through the senses. Likewise, Mental Health is a combination of inner Belief and Physical Health. The stronger the former, the steadier the mind. Our inner Truth is as per our ‘experience’...."
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I Want to be a Sri Lankan as well as a Tamilian
Written on 6 Dec, 2010 at 13:47 in Against Tamileelam, English | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
By Dr. Noel Nadesan
A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen,
I thank the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission for having invited me to present my point.
I consider it a privilege to have this opportunity to submit my view on this important occasion.
I am an expatriate Sri Lankan from Tamil origin, living in Australia. I have decided to narrate the events on my life as twines in and out of the tragic story of the 30-year-crisis that ruined the lives of...
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Swiss action against refugees
Written on 1 Dec, 2010 at 2:12 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
by Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam
Mr. Adrian Edwards
Spokesperson
UNHCR
Geneva
01 December 2010
Dear Mr.Edwards,
Swiss Action against Refugees
(December 01, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) We welcome your expressions of concern re the impact on Refugees due to the decision by the People of Switzerland to expel foreigners convicted of serious crimes. Refugees of Sri Lankan origin are included in this ‘risk’ category.
You have stated about...
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