An attachment found in article by Rajiv Wijesinghe in defense.lk. Have a look at these so called visionary individuals are asking for money before everything else. See how cunningly written this letter is. God help those foreigners who swallow their Guli. After all what are those humanities PhDs are going to do in Sri Lanka without some extra cash.



Mani`s e-mail to Evans about affiliating to the Global Protection Centre
(Dr Mani has claimed that `there has been a decision by GCR2P to suspend or terminate its relationship with ICES
until further notice ..There never was any file on paper on r2p and this was not taken out of the office at any time`.
If this means there was only e-mail correspondence, it is at the very least suspicious that this correspondence was
not shared with the Board of ICES, and has not been made public since. Indeed the correspondence regarding the
suspension / termination also seems to have been confidential)
9 July 2007
Hon. Gareth Evans
President
International Crisis Group
Brussels
23/1 7.17 pm
Dear Gareth,
It is always a delight and an inspiration to see and hear you in action -
I am looking forward eagerly, as is much of Colombo, to your imminent visit, which, I have no doubt, will create
(much needed) waves.
I have read your proposal for the Global Centre with great interest and shared it with my colleagues at ICES. The
proposal is excellent, powerfully argued and brilliantly spelt out. It proposes to do exactly what is imperative now to
ensure that the sustained momentum through which you and other visionary individuals and governments managed
to obtain R2P at the UN 60th isn`t now dissipated. We must now move towards implementation through a
considered process. we would be honoured and delighted to accept your offer that we join you as a Southern
associated centre.
This would also be fully in keeping with ICES`s traditions and expertise .our `Justice and the Struggle for Peace
Programme` has prioritised as one of its three key objectives, supporting the implementation of the Responsibility to
Protect. So you can see that we are well placed to partner with you and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to
Protect.
A very important element for implementing R2P will be confronting governments and supporting the international
community and R2P advocates with hard evidence from the ground, and analysis of the perspectives, views held
about R2P by affected vulnerable populations and by ordinary citizens.
As you rightly pointed out in your cover note to me, we would need to look into the resource implications, and
procure some basic funding to ensure that we can support the Global Centre as a Southern Associate Centre. I did
not notice on the attached budget a separate entry for financial and material support to the Southern Associate
Centres. Did I miss this?
Kindly let us know as soon as you can what you would see as the prospects for financial and material assistance to
the southern centres. Also, let us know asap whether you need us to supply some basic figures and budgets for
what we might need - and what you would expect exactly from the southern centres -- and a ball park figure of what
you think would be a reasonable figure that the main donors supporting the Global Centre might accept so that
we could draw up a budget accordingly. If you are able to go ahead and pitch for financial support for the southern
centres, without such a detailed budget from us at this point, please do so and we can work out figures
subsequently.
Basically, R2P is an idea that both ICES institutionally and I personally, deeply support. We would be honoured to
be associated with the Global Centre. To the extent that your resources and fundraising efforts allow, we will do
whatever we can within our wide areas of expertise but our very modest resources and capacities to ensure that we
can move R2P forward towards implementation.
We look forward very much to collaborating with you in this exciting and important new venture.
With my warmest personal regards,
Rama