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Shavendra raises immunity defense to escape torture charges
Wednesday, 2 November 2011 - 6:37 PM SL Time
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[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 November 2011, 01:57 GMT]
Sri Lanka`s Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and ex-Major General in Sri Lankan Army (SLA), Shavendra Silva, has invoked Article-31 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Immunity as his defense to war-crimes charges leveled against him by two Tamil plaintiffs in the District Court of Southern District of New York (Case 11 Civ. 6645), court records show. With no declared formal intervention by the U.S. State Department, and despite earlier pronouncements that Silva will defend his actions in the Court of law, the ex-General appears to have thought it prudent to hide behind `absolute` immunity defense his counsel claims the General is legally entitled to.
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SRI LANKA: Duminda Silva is above the law .
Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 11:50 AM SL Time
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Duminda Silva is above the law. This is not due to any constitutional status that he has, as for example, the President of Sri Lanka who is by virtue of article 35 of the Constitution, above the law. In the case of Duminda Silva he is above the law only because the president or his brother, the Secretary of Defence, Gotabhaya Rajapakse has placed him above the law.
Duminda Silva is an alleged rapist and molester of women. He is also the alleged murderer of four persons. Besides this he is the owner of a vast network of criminal elements engaged in the trading of illicit drugs which is locally known as the `kudu business`. These criminal elements have been engaged in a large amount of criminal activity in the country. Now, there is also the allegation of linkage between the Colombo stock market and the trade of illicit drugs. That the Colombo stock market has been used for money laundering and that Duminda Silva is a leading figure in money laundering in Sri Lanka is also publically discussed these days. He is also alleged to have made a fraudulent insurance claim for Rs. 17 million on a car which was not even insured at the time of the alleged accident.
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Unanswered questions in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
Thursday, 3 November 2011 - 5:22 PM SL Time
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By Thirumurugan Gandhi
03 Nov 2011
Posted 02-Nov-2011
Vol 2 Issue 43
The assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was a tragic event, but even more tragic is the fact that the complete conspiracy behind his killing is yet to be unraveled and some critical pieces of leads continue to remain unexplored in spite of their relevance to the case.
It is important to place these facts before the nation at a time when demands are being made to commute the death sentence of the three persons convicted in the case, Murugan, Santhan, and Perarivalan.
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11 Tibetans commit self-immolation protesting Chinese occupation
Saturday, 5 November 2011 - 7:26 PM SL Time
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TamilNet, Saturday, 05 November 2011, 00:20 GMT]
With a 35-year-old Tibetan Buddhist nun immolating herself in Eastern Tibet on Thursday, the number of Tibetans committing self-immolation protesting China`s genocidal occupation of Tibet rises to 11 in the recent months. The escalation in self-immolation is a result of China intensifying martial law rule in occupied Tibet. The Tibetan diaspora in India, Nepal and elsewhere paid homage to the martyrs, but even a peaceful prayer gathering of around 400 Tibetans including 150 monks in Kathmandu was interrupted by Nepalese riot police that pulled down a banner of Dalai Lama, angering the Tibetan diaspora. Nepal says it cannot allow protests against `friendly` nations such as China. Peoples of South Asia, especially Tamils have to show full solidarity to Tibetans oppressed by the Establishments, Buddhist circles in Tamil Nadu said.
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TNA runs scared for their lives.....OMCT....Suspend General Silva s Credentials to Promote Justice.
Thursday, 10 November 2011 - 12:54 AM SL Time
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November 9, 2011
Mr. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
United Nations
2 United Nations Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10017
Re: Suspend General Silva`s Credentials to Promote Justice
Dear Mr. Secretary-General:
We write to ask you to urge the United Nations Credentials Committee to recommend that the General Assembly suspend the credentials of General Shavendra Silva to appear at the United Nations as a Representative of Sri Lanka. As you know, General Silva is being sued in the Southern District Court of New York for the extrajudicial killing of a civilian in the bombing of a hospital and for the torture and extrajudicial killing of a person hors de combat.
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* Attention focused again on Sri Lanka`s disappeared journalist Eknaligoda
Thursday, 10 November 2011 - 11:18 PM SL Time
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Nov 10, Colombo: The fate of disappeared Sri Lankan journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda has come to focus again in Sri Lanka with a statement made by former Attorney General Mohan Peiris.
Former Attorney General representing Sri Lanka government before the UN Committee on Prevention of Torture has said that he had evidence to prove that Eknaligoda was living in a foreign country as a refugee, media reports said.
Left oriented media and human rights organizations are urging the former Attorney General to reveal the whereabouts of the disappeared journalist.
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Missing persons bodies were dumped in the sea..
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 - 4:00 PM SL Time
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(November 16, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) `Underworld leader Dematagoda Chaminda has told the CID recently that a group of persons led by him had dumped the body of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda in the sea off the Negombo lagoon,` the London based web site claimed yesterday.
According to the Lanka New Web, Demtagoda Chaminda was arrested on suspicion over the murder of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and four others and is currently in the custody of the CID.
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Former Sri Lankan President Talks Peace
Thursday, 17 November 2011 - 2:25 AM SL Time
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Chandrika Kumaratunga, the former president of Sri Lanka, painted a sobering picture of an island nation recovering from civil war during a talk at CGIS yesterday.
Kumaratunga, who led Sri Lanka from 1994 to 2005, described her administration`s unsuccessful attempts to resolve through peaceful negotiations the long-standing conflict between Sri Lanka`s majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil populations.
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All is not well for Tamils in Sri Lanka
Thursday, 17 November 2011 - 12:06 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka High Commissioner Chitranganee Wagiswara tries to justify the war crimes by the government against Tamil civilians by asserting that Tamil Tigers were terrorists. She is by implication accepting that war crimes were committed by both Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Terrorism by a rebel group cannot justify war crimes by Sri Lankan government on her civilians.
Ms Wagiswara`s description of the Sri Lankan communities as peace loving is a cruel joke. The Tamil majority areas of Sri Lanka (Eelam) are under a massive Sinhalese army of occupation, who are harassing and trampling on the rights of the Tamils after the surrender of the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
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War crimes trial `essential` for B`desh: UN chief
Thursday, 17 November 2011 - 1:46 PM SL Time
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Dhaka: Visiting UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon on Tuesday supported the government`s initiative to bring to justice those accused of `crimes against humanity` during Bangladesh`s 1971 `Liberation War`.
`For any nation, dealing with the darker aspects of the past is essential to creating unity and building a healthy, brighter future,` he said in a lecture at Dhaka University, which conferred upon him an honorary doctor of law degree.
He said Bangladesh was seeking to deal more fully with the legacy of 1971, establishing a war crimes tribunal and took `other important steps` in this regard.
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SA, Sri Lanka look at relations
Thursday, 17 November 2011 - 10:59 PM SL Time
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Compiled by the Government Communication and Information System
Date: 17 Nov 2011
Title: SA, Sri Lanka look at relations
Pretoria - Following several decades of civil war, South Africa is encouraging Sri Lanka to pursue an inclusive political settlement for national reconciliation and economic reconstruction.
This is the message that International Relations Deputy Minister Ebrahim Ebrahim, who is currently on a working visit to Sri Lanka, has taken with him.
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accountability is so important...
Monday, 21 November 2011 - 3:34 AM SL Time
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Bangladesh war crimes trial begins in Dhaka Mr Sayedee is among seven facing trial in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka Continue reading the main story
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A leader of a Bangladesh Islamist party has gone on trial accused of crimes against humanity during the country`s independence struggle against Pakistan.
Delawar Hossain Sayedee is the first of seven suspects set to face a tribunal on charges relating to the 1971 war.
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Abandoning principles to provide aid
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 - 3:53 AM SL Time
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M decins Sans Fronti res has taken a long, hard look at itself and is less than pleased with the results.
In a recently published report, the international aid organisation writes that ethical dilemmas are unavoidable in crisis situations. MSF has often concluded agreements with warlords and signed contracts of secrecy whatever it took to be able to provide aid.
The organisation`s think tank has now published a highly critical report, which concludes that in conflict areas - MSF`s natural habitat - it often made the wrong choices. Aid workers allowed dictatorial regimes to dictate where they could or could not work. MSF also did business with armed militias and kept silent about abuse.
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Yemeni President Saleh signs deal on ceding power
Thursday, 24 November 2011 - 4:07 PM SL Time
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed a deal under which he will step down after months of unrest.
Mr Saleh signed the agreement, brokered by Yemen`s Gulf Arab neighbours, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Under the plan, he will transfer his powers to his deputy ahead of an early election and in return will get immunity from prosecution.
But protesters rallying in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, said they would reject any deal giving the president immunity.
The demonstrators said the Gulf initiative ignored the `blood of martyrs`, BBC Arabic correspondent Abdullah Ghorab in Sanaa reports.
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Sri Lanka Tallying Civilian Deaths From Civil War
Thursday, 24 November 2011 - 6:54 PM SL Time
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Posted Thursday, November 24th, 2011 at 7:50 am
Sri Lanka`s defense secretary says the government is counting how many civilians were killed in the final months of the country`s civil war, but that the number of dead will be far too small to constitute war crimes by the Sri Lankan military.
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa made the announcement Thursday, after the government acknowledged for the first time in August that civilians may have died during the government offensive that eventually ended Sri Lanka`s decades-long civil war. Earlier, officials had said no civilians were harmed in the conflict between government troops and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Delhian minister got a slap on the face....
Friday, 25 November 2011 - 6:27 PM SL Time
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A man in New Delhi has slapped India`s agriculture minister in the face, reportedly to draw attention to corruption.
Harvinder Singh hit Sharad Pawar, shouting `you`re all thieves`.
While he was being restrained, he pulled out a small knife before being escorted away by security.
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`A very compelling case for life`: Newly discovered planet is just like Earth and could contain liquid water
Saturday, 26 November 2011 - 8:30 PM SL Time
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Gliese 581g in `Goldilocks zone` meaning conditions just right for life
Planet orbits red dwarf star in Libra constellation 123trillion miles away
By Simon Tomlinson
Last updated at 7:33 PM on 25th November 2011
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Scientists have discovered a planet which could have the most Earth-like environment ever found - raising a `very compelling case` for life there.
Gliese 581g, located around 123trillion miles away, orbits a star at a distance that places it squarely in the habitable - or Goldilocks - zone, Nasa said.
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baby shop in sinhala pariah state...the mothers are tamil girls...
Sunday, 27 November 2011 - 4:37 AM SL Time
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By Ranee Mohamed - Pictures by Asoka Fernando
The couple from America who were waiting for their turn at the Children`s Home in Rawatawatte were not at fault.
They wanted a baby with all their heart and they had gone through the correct process to get a child by contacting a `licenced adoption agency.`
They also had a receipt with them from an adoption agency called the New Horizon Adoption Agency which stated that they had paid U.S. dollars ten thousand. The adoption agency had a local representative here in Sri Lanka. However, disturbing is the fact the Sri Lankan representative received U.S. dollars 6,000 and the child was given from a home called Prem Niwasa which also includes the words Missionaries of Charity
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Tamil activists assert sovereignty, declare for plebiscite
Sunday, 27 November 2011 - 8:41 PM SL Time
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Leading Tamil activists of the younger generation in Tamil Nadu, Canada, USA and Switzerland, came out with a declaration on Sunday for an international decision to conduct and monitor a plebiscite among the people of North and East descent in the island, in the diaspora and among the refugees in India and elsewhere, in order to decide on the creation of an independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam. The activists asserted sovereignty of Eezham Tamils on three counts: historical, earned and remedial. They also declared that international players should stop insisting on united Sri Lanka and drop pretensions of `domestic solutions`. Further declarations upheld symbols and expressions of the struggle, urged recognition of all those who laid down their lives for the liberation cause and called upon coordinated global action by democratic forces.
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