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| HELLO THERE AND WELCOME TO SRI LANKA WATCH....... SRI LANKA WATCH is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental think tank dedicated to the resolution of the ethnic conflict in the war torn island republic. 30 years of war and 70,000 lives killed is no mean feat. Martin Luther King once said "If we cannot learn learn to live as brothers and sisters, then we shall perish as fools". If you have any ideas as to what should be done to resolve the issues and would like to forward them, please send them to srilankawatch@yahoo.com. Your views would then be studied, compiled and sent to the Peace Secretariat in Sri Lanka. Thank you and keep those letters coming. |
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| Can there be Peace ? |
| IT IS TODAY 5 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS SINCE CFA . |
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| "Certainly, the LTTE is a terrorist group of the first order. That said there's no question that the Government of Sri Lanka has responsibilities as well. One of those, which the Government has certainly acknowledged, is to address the legitimate grievances of the Tamil people. That includes, of course, dealing with the disturbing number of killings in recent months. This is something the Government has said it will investigate. We think those investigations should be carried out promptly and thoroughly - we think it is the responsibility of the Government to uphold law and order, and that is a responsibility of any democratic Government"
US State Department's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Camp, at a press conference in Colombo yesterday. ( Daily News, 17.5.2006) |
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The Sri Lankan government has obligations under international law to take steps to prevent such killings -Amnesty International. |
| The United States has, for the first time, clearly spelled out its stand on Sri Lanka’s ethnic question, and used the term ‘homeland’. The top US government official dealing with Sri Lanka, US Asst Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher outlined US policy in two presentations in Colombo last week. (Please see FACTS THAT SPEAK, ARTICLE 32 - Boucher: Tamil Homeland. ) |
| Outgoing US ambassador Jeffrey Lunstead called for "radical changes in the way the entire nation is governed." These changes must "empower all the people of Sri Lanka: Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and others, and give them a greater say in how they are governed in the areas where they live." |
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| FOOD FOR THOUGHT " What is ethnically wrong, cannot be politically right " - Suthichai Yoon, Bangkok, 2.11.2006 . |
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| Please read Art. 87, WORLD WIDE WATCH, in FACTS THAT SPEAK. Regularly Updated. |
| TOP NEWS MONDAY, 14 . 5 . 2007 US MILITARY SALES TO SL UP FROM 1.4M TO 60.8M. |
| The United States, reiterating its strong support for Sri Lanka's efforts "to combat terror," Monday called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's government to also forge a power-sharing proposal as the basis for negotiations with the LTTE. Pointing out development can only take place amid peace, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake told a meeting of Sri Lanka's donor community that 'transparency, good governance, and respect for human rights and the rule of law are essential preconditions for economic development and indispensable prerequisites for ... a lasting peace." He criticised Sri Lanka's blocking of access to humanitarian agencies in the Northeast. (29.1.2007, US Envoy, Robert Blake) |
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| 1. Sri Lankan civilians look at the remains of slain Buddhist monk Handungamuwe Nandarathana at a hospital morgue in Trincomalee. Gunmen stormed a Buddhist temple in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday and fatally shot the chief monk, while the military said clashes between soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels killed four guerrillas in the northwest - AP.
2. Sri Lankans protesting Britain's decision to freeze aid to the island. Sri Lanka's failure to share power with minority Tamils and put an end to extra-judicial killings have raised prospects of more aid cuts to the embattled island - AFP. 3. An internally displaced Tamil woman. Human Rights Watch on Friday renewed a call for independent foreign monitoring of human rights in Sri Lanka - AFP. |
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