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Salem-News.com (Mar-01-2012 21:44)
RSF Appeals to UNHRC to Denounce Sri Lanka Over Curbing Media FreedomSalem-News.comMedia minister Keheliya Rambukwella accused journalists of collaborating with the LTTE, foreign media and NGOs in order to smear Sri Lanka’s image. (WASHINGTON DC) -
Reporters Without Borders said, “For more than a year we have been seeing new forms of censorship and deterioration in journalists’ ability to work although the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) officially ended in 2009.”
Salem-News.com (Mar-01-2012 21:25)
Sri Lanka: Government Promises, Ground RealitiesSalem-News.comIn other ways, too, the government shows little willingness to move toward a negotiated political settlement that would devolve meaningful power to the north and east. (BRUSSELS) -
Nearly three years since declaring victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka’s post-war course is threatening future violence.
Salem-News.com (Mar-01-2012 21:02)
`From Misurata we came to free Syria!`
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The documentary forensically examines four specific cases and investigates who was responsible.
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Last year Channel 4 broadcast Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, an investigation of the last few weeks of the war between the government of Sri Lanka and the rebel forces of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE).
Presented by Jon Snow, it featured devastating video evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity - some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
Activists say that the government needs to show a consistent intent that it is serious about carrying through the LLRC recommendations, rather than reacting when calls for international scrutiny are heard.
(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) -
Strung across the main road leading away from the international airport is a banner that has an intriguing message: ‘USA, Pls Do Not Support Terrorism’.
Most of the other large billboards and banners on the same stretch are also directed at visiting tourists, but these are less political and exhort them to visit beach locations or buy jewelery.
America does not support it troops unless they're standing in a recruiting line or appearing in a Hollywood movie.
(PHILADELPHIA, PA) -
The letter from the Philadelphia VA Regional Office was thick. It wasn’t a love letter.
The package was received on my daughter’s birthday, February 28, 2012. It contained the VA’s denial of my pending disability compensation claim. The denial runs a total of 66 single space pages.
Old father clock is grinding forward with determination and the Rajapakses are with their backs to the wall.
(NOIDA, India) -
The large and quite unexpected hike in all prices that Sri Lanka woke up to in the first week of February set off protest movements that are growing and could swell into something very serious.
Then, the government unleashed a wave of street protests against “the imperialist plot to destabilise Sri Lanka and undermine its sovereignty” as the UNHCR sessions opened in Geneva.
Opponents say the costly project is no answer for the nation's energy-related ills.
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Politico reports today, that Obama met with House Speaker John Boehner over the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and that "optimism" was expressed over finding "common ground" on several energy and jobs bills.
Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters, "I did press the president on the Keystone pipeline. The president said, ‘Well, you’re gonna get part."
The movie’s world premiere takes place at San Francisco Green Film Festival.
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Legendary Earth First! organizer and car-bomb victim Judi Bari passed away in 1997.
Now, just after the 15th anniversary of her death, a 93-minute documentary Who Bombed Judi Bari?, produced by her eco-cohort Darryl Cherney, will bring her back to life and have its Humboldt County premieres at the Arcata Playhouse.