Earlier this year the world’s media were largely banned from reporting in the North and East of Sri Lanka, with poignant echoes of Israel’s stance in Gaza. Some of us – mea culpa – believed the government when they claimed that it was largely for the safety of journalists and to avoid fanning the flickering [...]
Category Archives: Right Wing paramilitaries
The sad, bad, mad story of Prabakaran, Tiger turned maneater
May 18, 2009 – 7:24 pm
This second opinion on Sri Lanka deals in detail with the life and times of Prabakaran, leader of the Tamil Tigers. If you want to know why Miliband’s effigy was burned in Colombo, read on. I for one was not aware that Karuna, former second-in-command of the LTTE, was recently detained in Wormwood Scrubs then [...]
Blair, Howard and – er – Ulribe honoured in Bush medal ceremony
January 15, 2009 – 9:28 am
“The president is honoring these leaders for their work to improve the lives of their citizens and for their efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad“ White House spokeswoman…
By John J Kelly
On the day when UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband opined that the War on Terror had been a mistake, the Financial Times published conjecture that medallion [...]