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A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Monday, April 30, 2012
The Geneva Debacle of March 2012: The lessons not learnt
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The outcome in
Geneva last year (March 2011) of the voting on Sri Lanka’s conduct of the war
and related human rights record was very clearly in favour of the Sri Lankan
government. The line up in the voting and the scale of the majority were such
that is appeared that this year too the outcome would be similar, despite some
recent wavering by India. But the conduct of the Sri Lankan government in the
mean time was so counter- productive that it precipitated the debacle of March
2012. We should have anticipated the disaster but it seems to have taken the Sri
Lankan government by surprise.Continue reading »