[Viewpoint] Korea should shun Sri Lanka

Instead of attending the Sri Lankan army’s conference, Korea should support the call for an international investigation into war crimes.

May 27, 2011

In the final months of the decades-long war in Sri Lanka in 2009, tens of thousands of civilians were killed as government forces closed in on the Tamil Tigers. The government’s strategy included repeated shelling of civilians, targeting hospitals and the total exclusion of independent monitors, including international aid agencies and foreign journalists.
Next week, the Sri Lankan army will hold a conference in Colombo to tout its view of counterinsurgency operations and encourage others to copy its methods. Many countries with professional armies have declined the invitation.
Inexplicably, Korea is expected to attend.   Full Story>>>
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IanKiru Karan

Sri Lankan Born ‘Container King’ Ian Kiru Karan Becomes German Minister
From rags to riches: BILD.de documents the progress of Hamburg’s flagship entrepreneur, Ian Karan Kiru’s career, as he becomes Hamburg’s Economic Senator.
Ian Kiru Karan who was born in Point Pedro in 1939, moved to Germany in 1970 after studying in the United Kingdom — where he went on to build one of the world’s biggest container leasing companies in Hamburg.
He was recently sworn in as Senator for Economic Affairs in Hamburg.
As an orphan from Sri Lanka, Ian Kiru Karan obtained a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics and later worked for the English branch of the logistics company, Schenker.  Later, Karan moved to Hamburg in 1970, with no more than 3,000 DM with him.    Full Story