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Minister Baird Comments on Final Report of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission

By pearlaction | January 11, 2012 |

[Canada News Centre] Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird today issued the following statement on the final report of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission: “Canada notes the public release of the report of Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. Although we are still studying the report, the commission has addressed and provided recommendations…

Crimes against minorities cannot be tolerated

By pearlaction | November 10, 2011 |

[National Post] The Tamils’ situation in Sri Lanka brings to mind the old legal maxim, inter arma enim silent leges – essentially, in times of war, the law falls silent. Most unfortunate for all Tamils is the continued cynical silence of the international community on this troubling ongoing ethnic conflict. [Full Story]

Sri Lanka’s (nearly) forgotten massacre

By pearlaction | November 8, 2011 |

[National Post] This isn’t a column about the Middle East. But to make my point, I’m going to start by asking readers to imagine a scenario from that part of the world. [Full Story]

Sri Lankan FM slams ‘biased’ UN rights report

By pearlaction | October 30, 2011 |

[AFP] Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Sunday condemned a “preposterous” UN-commissioned report alleging war crimes in his country, revealing he stopped Canada raising it at a Commonwealth meeting. [Full Story]

Harper’s stand on Sri Lanka is just not cricket

By pearlaction | October 26, 2011 |

[The Globe and Mail] On Australia’s western shore, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is upsetting the Commonwealth tea party. It’s not just that he declared that Sri Lanka’s human-rights record, so far, would make it an unfit host for the 2013 Commonwealth summit. It’s that those statements have made Sri Lanka something of an example for the…