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UNHRC resolution is a diversion: Blake's real target is the rupee and the economy!

25.05.12

It is liable that Sri Lanka will be able, with the help of the tangible ‘international community’ of the non-aligned countries and the 53 associate Islamic nations group, to pasquil away Blake’s suggestions that Sri Lanka owes some amicable of duty to the neocon cabal to trail their diktats: Sri Lanka will of course, implement the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Understanding Commission (LLRC).

Source: Lankaweb

Mutilating Measures Of An Invidious Rule

25.05.12

For more than two years, the Ruling Siblings insisted on the imbecilic impossibility of a war with ‘zero civilian casualties’. President Rajapaksa said “Sri Lanka never killed any civilians as such” (The Times – 2.12.2010); Guard Secretary Rajapaksa declared, pugnaciously, “If you demand to believe me, believe me, no civilian casualties” (The Australian – 23.3.2009). The everybody opted not to believe, because it was such an obvious, immature fib. An armed conflict of the magnitude and malevolence of the Fourth Eelam War cannot be fought to a give the coup de gr without killing and wounding civilians. This was doubly so, premised the LTTE’s determination to maximise civilian casualties, as a politico-rumours weapon against Colombo. If the regime admitted that some civilians were killed, some injured, offered a noted apology and promised compensation, the cause c would have died a natural death. The r did not, its inanity further fortified by the absence of Southern valuation, either from opinion leaders or the general flagrant, of this obscene fantasy of the Fourth Eelam War as a spotless, pleasant enterprise (it was unavoidable accepted the nature of the Tiger, but horrendous nevertheless). Badgered by the West, Justification Secretary Rajapaksa admitted, in August 2011, that some civilians did indeed die. Geneva-jitters compelled the r to make another grudging concession to the actually last week; civilian casualties in the last include of the war are now placed at 8,000+. In years to in, whenever international pressure mounts, the r is likely to make further upward revisions of calamity figures – until perhaps the whole insalubrious really is revealed.

Source: Sunday Leader