Sunday, May 15, 2011

Two Years After Mullivaikkal – Kiribath Or Paal Soru?

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/sunday-leader-masthead.gifhttp://www.thesundayleader.lk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/logo-PoliticsGover-300x82.jpg Sunday, May 15, 2011
Sri Lanka was sent a very confidential message by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert O’ Blake Jnr. and US Ambassador here in Colombo from 2006 till the war was concluded on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon in Mullivaikkal, May 2009.
Blake met with the External Affairs Minister one to one in his hotel suite to convey Madam Clinton’s message to President Rajapaksa, say informed sources, after a formal meeting with the Minister and his senior staff.
Hillary Clinton
That’s two years after the war when the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Panel Report is held out like a menacing hand. Two years, when most post war issues should have been managed and brought under control. That responsibility ignored with PR manipulations beyond the shores of Sri Lanka, professorial glib talk to satisfy the gullible middle class here, Sinhala heroes’ playing for local media and vernacular rhetoric aired for the poor and the innocent Sinhala majority, the world of the Rajapaksas revolve with increasing war crimes accusations. Taking umbrage against the UN and its SG instead of resolving issues at home, has only allowed piling of carefully sifted and documented evidence against this regime, during the past two years.Read More »

Two Years After Mullivaikkal – Kiribath Or Paal Soru 

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President Fears A Regime Change

Ban Ki-moon, Sarath Fonseka and Mahinda Rajapaksa

Mahinda Rajapaksa met with the committee appointed by him to handle the Ban panel report, last Tuesday.  He made it clear that the report had a hidden agenda. He felt that the report was to facilitate a change of regime in Sri Lanka.
He did not forget to say that there were several nations behind this conspiracy but he was confident of himself and even if anyone got upto tricks within parliament he would not be dislodged.      President Fears A Regime Change »    Read More
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Lasantha, The President And Sarath Fonseka

By
Frederica Jansz


President Mahinda Rajapaksa has on numerous occasions with editors at closed door meetings said, “Everybody knows who killed Lasantha – yet, those very people who suffered as a result of his (Fonseka’s actions) later went and backed him.”
He added for good measure, “the two at the Nation and Lal.” Referring to the incident in which The Nation’s defence correspondent Keith Noyahr was abducted and brutally attacked, Rajapaksa’s comments referred to former CEO of The Nation newspaper Krishantha Prasad Cooray and its former Editor-in-Chief Lalith Alahakoon.
Lasantha Wickrematunge, Namal Perera, Upali Tennakoon, Keith Noyahr, Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka