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October 30, 2011

Long-planned propaganda onslaught as President attends Commonwealth Summit in Perth

By Our Political Editor

The three-day summit of Presidents and Prime Ministers of 54 countries of the Commonwealth ends today in Western Australia and the focus shifts to Sri Lanka once more.

Attention will now centre not only on the next Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Hambantota in 2013. More importantly, it will also be on the final report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission due within the next two weeks. Western governments in particular await the report before they determine whether they should raise alleged war crime issues before the March 2012 sessions of the UN Human Rights Council. This is based on the report of the three-member UN Panel appointed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Should such a development take place, Sri Lanka will again make newspaper headlines and figure in prime time TV slots.

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