Vijay Nambiar – People for Equality and Relief in Lanka

Back from Sri Lanka, UN’s Holmes Admits NGO Killings and Restrictions Not Raised

By pearlaction | May 27, 2009 |

[ Inner City Press ] Just back to the United Nations from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s surreal tour of Sri Lanka, Inner City Press asked UK Ambassador John Sawers if the UN paying for interment camps for Tamils rounded up from throughout northern Sri Lanka compiles with international humanitarian law. Ambassador Sawers, rather than answer,…

UN Sends Nambiar to Sri Lanka, Quiet Diplomacy and Ships Off the Beach?

By pearlaction | April 16, 2009 |

[Inner City Press] With even the UN now speaking of a “bloodbath on the beach” in Northern Sri Lanka, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has quietly sent his titular chief of staff Vijay Nambiar, a former Indian diplomat, to the region to try what the UN is calling “quiet diplomacy.” Some in Ban’s inner circle…