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Don't judge anyone in here..UR the one who came with a different thinking and withiout being Honest to urself,

withiout being Honest to urself

And how abt you!!Are you honest!!I don't think so!

what do You mean..talking about MR Visit to see POPE is not in anyway talking low about SL..That is being HONESTY.

.unlike u, who change every mint, i don't..go back and read my post.

.I was always against this Government.

.I think you have to read your old post..if you can't..i can post a few to prove my point..

Then bashing the people who supports terrorism and separation and who wants to destruct Sri Lanka is absolutely justified!!

And how abt you!!Are you honest!!I don't think so!

Are yous sure? Which gov would you like to be in Sri Lanka, or else a gov. who gives milk and bread to LTTE to get themselves arrmed and blow more buses and trains!

BRING IT! I'm not a afraid! You are trying to black mail me, do you think I will run away!Heh! I will never run to Mr.B

I came here honestly, later I knew this is not a place and I changed accordingly! You got that!

Sri Lankan coconut-based industries have been badly affected by the decreasing supply of nuts because of low yields and poor prices

Mahinda acted role of HR activist

Once upon a time Mahinda Rajapakse was looked upon both locally and internationally as the champion voice for the protection of human rights in the country. He was an active campaigner, so much so that he was considered somewhat of a guardian angel by mothers of youth who were victims of human rights abuses during and after the JVP insurgency of 1988/99.

In collaboration with the mothers of missing persons, he established the Mother s Front of missing persons. He worked closely with them and with other local human rights activists and was in regular contact with the UN Organisation for Human Rights in Geneva. He kept records of extra judicial killings and of the whereabouts of persons taken into custody and prepared a dossier on the subject implicating the government, the police and the armed forces at the time.

On one occasion he even tried to smuggle this dossier out of the country on a trip to Geneva but was prevented from doing so by CID sleuths at the airport. A seemingly angry Mahinda proceeded to Geneva minus the dossier to enlighten the UN Human Rights Organisation of what was happening in the country. When the government changed in 1994, Mahinda, then a cabinet minister, along with some other ministers went about unearthing skeletal remains from graves all over the country, one of which was at Suriyakanda.

Today the government stands accused of the very human rights the president strived to uphold by the people affected by the abuses, by local and foreign human rights organisations and by the UN Human Rights Organisation in Geneva itself. Also today Mahinda is in an altogether different role as the all-powerful President and his government is in power. He has undergone a complete change of character as far as human rights abuses are concerned.

The government scoffs when told that human skeletals are being unearthed from various parts of the country and when reference is made of disappearances via the white van, extra judicial killings, and of the harassment and killing of media personnel.The government refers to these as cooked up accusations to discredit the government and accuses those who raise human rights issues and go to Geneva of being traitors to the country.

Considering Mahinda s present and past attitude towards human rights abuses, there is no doubt that when he was involved in the role of a human rights activist, he was merely using that role for political expediency and has since switched roles also for political expediency.

During a recent cabinet meeting, a minister mentioned the fact that Mahinda himself was a human rights activist during the insurgency of 1988/99 to which an amused Mahinda is said to have burst out laughing exposing all his molars and saying, that is politics.

R. Senaratne,

Moratuwa

What is our education coming to?

Being a parent of a 16 year old daughter attending prestigious government girls school in Colombo, I was surprised to learn that students of this 'Buddhist' Vidyalaya were instructed by their Prefects Guild to purchase from a shop 'with the knowledge of parents' men s underwear to be brought to school to be donated to the armed forces.

I am astonished and keen to know whether these 'requests' were made with the consent of the principal. I would not have made these comments if these girls were asked to bring ladies underwear or sanitary napkins for donation towards female cadres of our armed services. Men s underwear is completely alien to students of this prestigious vidyalaya in Colombo.

Would the authorities concerned make investigations immediately to identify the origin of these instructions which would no doubt be disastrous to our culture!

S. C. Abhayaratne

Colombo 6