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AndyLau
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 19 Mar 2012 04:32:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Robert Bales Vs Robert Blake
'What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.' |
AndyLau
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19 Mar 2012 04:35:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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what makes you think when I quote about forex it is true? ::))
cos you did all the calculations necessary to find out the current exchange rate... not just cut and paste job from the internet!
thank you! |
gajan99
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 19 Mar 2012 04:35:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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So what you doing in Hydro power?
you dont have to do anything in hydropower?
You are just giving boru show off talks here in LNP.::))
that is what your good friedn told about you the other day.
you want to see them again?
Dottor without bringing silly arguments here, give straight answers to my questions. |
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19 Mar 2012 04:38:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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Andy
cos you did all the calculations necessary to find out the current exchange rate... not just cut and paste job from the internet!
ha ha ha
gooooood one |
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19 Mar 2012 04:44:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mahinda Rajapakse has problems above his nose.
So, what to do.
Report to SLBC
Nadda Wije?? |
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19 Mar 2012 04:56:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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The documentary Sri Lanka s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished , was aired by Britain s Channel 4 on Wednesday (14). The documentary is a follow-up to last year s controversial documentary Sri Lanka s Killing Fields . The new documentary, made by the same team reiterates accusations on War Crimes during the latter stages of the conflict. It also makes new accusations on Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and President Mahinda Rajapaksa himself to indiscriminate killings of civilians and summary executions of captured LTTE fighters. The film was released at a time when Sri Lanka finds itself battling a resolution the United States has brought before the UNHRC in Geneva. In light of such developments, The Nation contacted several individuals to take their comments.
Sri Lanka s Ambassador in Paris, Dr Dayan Jayatilleka, said the documentary was part of a neo-colonialist effort of the British media to practice the divide and rule policy of British colonialism which actually created the ethnic problem in the first place.
This film is one-sided, subjective, unprofessional and blatantly propagandist. It is an attempt to win the war of world opinion, the battle of narratives, so that the wounds of Sri Lanka never heal, traumatic memories never fade, hatreds and enmities are re-kindled, and the conditions are created to reverse Sri Lanka s victory over the Tigers. It helps to create the psychological, ideological and diplomatic space for the Tamil Eelam project, he said. Jayatilleka said while he could not dismiss every photograph and piece of footage as counterfeit, as in the first Channel 4 film the visuals do not bear out the accompanying narrative. They do not prove the near-hysterical charges .
Regarding the view that a democratic government cannot compare itself to the level of a terrorist organisation and must adhere to higher standards with regard to human rights, Jayatilleka said this was indeed true, and the standards of conduct of the Sri Lankan armed forces taken as a whole, were indeed higher than those demonstrated by the Tigers throughout thirty years of war. He pointed to the LTTE s massacres in Habarana and Arantalawa as just two examples of the Tigers brutality which the West has not spoken of.
He also claimed the West was being selective and hypocritical when it makes the point about standards of conduct. Jayatilleka pointed to the firebombing of the city of Dresden by the Allies in World War II, and the dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also pointed to the US s recent actions in Fallujah, Iraq, where the number of non-combatant casualties was very high. Where is the accountability for those deaths? What of international law? he queried.
When questioned as to how Sri Lanka could be affected if the resolution is passed at the UNHRC, Jayatilleka said he was still hopeful that it will not come to that. If however, the resolution were to pass in its present form and with its present content, it would mean that an invisible noose has been thrown around Sri Lanka and its armed forces, and that noose will be tightened, he warned.
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19 Mar 2012 05:40:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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When the Libyan uprising began, many women enthusiastically took part, marching alongside men and aspiring to greater freedoms. But now they may have to pay for that liberation by losing their rights
Libya had women's rights equal to those in the west. Now, the new govt is going to legalize polygamy and more.
Now Libyan women are finally-65279 free to wear black bags instead of dresses, and to clean toilets instead of teaching at universities. Congratulations! |
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19 Mar 2012 05:41:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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http://www.nation.lk/edition/feature-issues/item/4014-we-will-get-you-in-march-said-us-rep-in-geneva.html
Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds seems to be a strategy that the States has developed over the years, as Colonel Gaddafi found to his cost when he finally decided to cooperate with certain elements in the West. It is because President Rajapaksa, while certainly welcoming American advice and assistance on the model we had before 2009, as represented most obviously perhaps by its Defence Attache Colonel Smith (whose positive comments on reported incidents at the end of the War the State Department so quickly repudiated), refuses to be dominated, that now the gloves are off.
And so we have the current resolution, watered down it seems from what was originally intended, when it was realized that the vast majority of countries were unwilling to put us in the doghouse for no good reason. Now we have what purports to be acceptance and encouragement of the LLRC Report, but as my colleague Dayan Jayatilleka, who understands Geneva so well, has explained clearly, this is a lie.
Why Dayan who understand Geneva so well is sidelined in Geneva engagement? |
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19 Mar 2012 05:46:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Why Dayan who understand Geneva so well is sidelined in Geneva engagement?
No need for Dayan Jayatilleke
Everyday Prof Rajiva, Mahinda Samarasinghe and Tamara Karunanayagam checks the LNP for Roshans posts for guidance on Geneva matters
When you have someone with 16K posts with knowledge on everything from mumps to powerplants, you don't need Dayan Jayatillekes, Engineers, Scientists or Doctors. Just read Roshan2007 posts :))
Edited By - Sinthaka - 19 Mar 2012 05:49:08 GMT |
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