Petition on Sri Lanka War Crimes Is Fake Carried Into Empty Building by UN Staffer, Nambiar Stonewalls

19, 2011 8:37 p.m. 

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, May 18 -- On the second anniversary of the bloody end of the conflict in Sri Lanka, outside the UN in New York chants of “UN, UN, Never again” and “Ban Ki-moon, Act Now” echoed off the white metal building where Secretary General Ban's office now is.

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      Two years on 

Asia  Banyan

May 19th 2011, 4:02 by Banyan

MAY 19TH is the second anniversary of the Sri Lankan government’s announcement that its forces had killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. It marked the government’s definitive victory in a bloody 26-year civil war—one, moreover, that analysts, including this newspaper, had for years argued could never be won. Yet in the end victory was so complete that peace already seems permanent.     Full Stoey>>>
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A crackdown precedes a new report on the end of the civil war

Sri Lanka and war crimes   -  Keep quiet and carry on

Apr 14th 2011 | COLOMBO | from the print edition

SRI LANKA’S government has got its retaliation On April 12th a panel of experts delivered a report to the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, assessing whether war crimes were committed when the nation’s army bloodily won a long-running civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels early in 2009. The report has not yet been made public, but the government is furious that an independent inquiry took place at all. The report, it says, is “fundamentally flawed” and biased.    Full Story ...

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rediff.com May 19, 2011 17:04 IST 

How Jaya's victory changes Indo-Lanka relations 

After staging a spectacular victory over her bête noire M Karunanidhi-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam [ Images ] in Tamil Nadu assembly elections, J Jayalalithaa [ Images ], leader of the All India [ Images ] Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, has called upon the Indian government for action against the Sri Lanka [ Images ] President Mahinda Rajapaksa [ Images ] for alleged war crimes and genocide of Tamils. 

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Accountability and justice in Sri Lanka: a new chapter at last?

The recommendations in the Report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka provide a good starting point for what should be done to free the country from its cycle of violence.                        FullStory...

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