Posts Tagged ‘President Mahinda Rajapaksa’
Sri Lanka under fire over PR firm Bell Pottinger speech
[BBC] In a report on Tuesday, the Independent quoted a Bell Pottinger company spokesman as saying it wrote a speech the president gave to the UN in 2010. [Full Story]
Read MoreUS Foreign Policy and Sri Lanka
[Journal of Foreign Relations] After three decades of war, Sri Lanka is still a mess. President Mahinda Rajapaksa could not care less about national reconciliation. Here is a president who did not hesitate to assert his authority at the end of the war. Yet now, he is afraid to be a strong and thoughtful leader,…
Read MoreCommonwealth leaders must stop Sri Lanka hosting key summit
[Amnesty International] The Commonwealth risks becoming ‘irrelevant’ if its leaders allow Sri Lanka to become its next host, Amnesty International said today ahead of the organization’s biennial summit. [Full Story]
Read MoreSocial networkers to subpoena Sri Lankan president for alleged war crimes?
[Global Post] Social networkers and good old fashioned newspapers may have the unique opportunity to serve Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa a summons to answer for his alleged role in extrajudicial killings during the civil war between government forces and Tamil insurgents. [Full Story]
Read MoreSri Lanka Far From True Peace After Civil War: Think Tank
[Huffington Post] Sri Lanka’s postwar policies are a hindrance to reconciliation between the country’s embittered ethnic communities, two years after the end of a civil war, an international think tank has said. [Full Story]
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