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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Ban sends UN Panel of Experts Report on accountability in Sri Lanka to HRC
NEW YORK: After months of speculation and pressure by rights groups the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon sent his Panel ofExperts Report on Sri Lanka’s last days of the war to the Human Rights Council today (Monday September 12).
The UN Panel Report states there is credible evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity […]
Unifying tasks for a future Northern Provincial Council
Improved climate after end of war
The government media gave headline prominence to the fact that Sri Lanka has made an impressive jump of 10 places to 52nd from 62nd in the rankings of the latest Global Competitiveness Report (2011-2012) issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF). This is a further improvement from the 2009-2010 report […]
Self Regulation in the Media: Some Thoughts From Experience
“For Methods of Regulation let fools contend; for what is Best Administered is Best” (Adapted from Macaulay)
I am indeed honored to participate at this First National Conference on the subject of Self Regulation in the Media. When I look at the distinguished audience, my concern is whether I am worthy to deliver this key-note address […]
Experts call Elephant survey in Sri Lanka a farce,condemns govt decision to offer elephants to temples
Even though the national elephant survey has ended with much fanfare and some media hype, questions have now been raised as to whether the Wild Life Conservation Department (WLCD) carried out a full and scientific survey on Sri Lanka’s wild elephants with the help of experts or whether it carried out a hurried and haphazard […]
Read MoreSri Lanka’s pachyderms: What does the elephant survey mean amid calls for boycott of religious pageants
Despite international excitement on the first elephant survey done in Sri Lanka last month (August) local scientists and environmentalists are not happy.
Rajapakse cronies
Sri Lanka’s present government has been particularly remiss in its duty towards the country’s fauna and flora actively supporting the massive destruction of virgin forests and national parks for so-called development projects that […]
Rights groups in stern letter to Commonwealth FMs: Sri Lanka hosting CHOGM 2013 grossly inappropriate
Open Letter to Commonwealth Foreign Ministers
Subject: The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013
We are gravely concerned about the ongoing discussions on holding the 2013 CHOGM in Sri Lanka.
At the 2009 CHOGM, Sri Lanka’s candidature for hosting the […]
CROSSING RED LINES: THE NEW TAMIL CONSENSUS
Reduced to marginality by colonial conquests
A visit to the Mayan exhibition in Paris tells the tale of a splendid ancient civilization with an advanced mathematics, now reduced to
marginality by colonial conquest. It also reminds one that the civilization of the Sinhalese, whose language is distinctive, whose collective existence is not far flung and whose state […]
BATTLE FOR COLOMBO: LG elections nothing but disillusionment whatever the outcome
Sri Lanka is fast becoming a land of elections. Since the Presidential Elections held in January, 2010, the people of this country have gone to the polls on three different occasions, making the forthcoming elections for the remaining municipalities and other local bodies the fourth within the last twenty four months. It is extremely uncommon […]
Read MoreHUMOUR with Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe
How to Know the Gender of a Fly?
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her
husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
‘What are you doing?’
She asked.
‘Hunting Flies’
He responded.
‘Oh! Killing any?’
She asked.
‘Yep, 3 Males, 2 Females,’ he replied.
Intrigued, she asked.
‘How can you tell them apart?’ !He responded,
‘3 were on a beer can,
2 were on the […]
AI slams Sri Lanka: Inquiry into armed conflict fundamentally flawed, no accountability for atrocities says new report
The Sri Lankan government’s inquiry into the country’s civil war is fundamentally flawed and provides no accountability for atrocities, according to a new Amnesty International report.
When will they get justice? exposes the shortcomings of the inquiry, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC). These include its failure to properly pursue allegations of war crimes and […]
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Experts call Elephant survey in Sri Lanka a farce,condemns govt decision to offer elephants to temples
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Rights groups in stern letter to Commonwealth FMs: Sri Lanka hosting CHOGM 2013 grossly inappropriate
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CROSSING RED LINES: THE NEW TAMIL CONSENSUS
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BATTLE FOR COLOMBO: LG elections nothing but disillusionment whatever the outcome
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AI slams Sri Lanka: Inquiry into armed conflict fundamentally flawed, no accountability for atrocities says new report
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