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`India postponed Operation Eelam and Blue Star intervened`

Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review on human rights is scheduled to be taken up in Geneva on 1 November.

(NEW DELHI) - A quarter century of India’s military intervention in Sri Lanka, ostensibly to help find a political solution to the ethnic strife that has torn the island nation apart.

It has left the Tamil minority under occupation of the Sinhala military trained and equipped by New Delhi and their political rights almost extinguished.

Fooling Delhi and the Tamils for the Umpteenth Time

Lies, damn lies and the national question.

(NEW DELHI) - They say that if you are deceived once it’s the fault of the con artist, but if you are taken for a ride a second time you are an imbecile.

What if you are lied to from day one till kingdom come and you nod and say, “Oh yes, that’s great” every time? Surely it must mean that you are party to the deception.

Twitter Exposes Myanmar`s Genocide Rewards

Burmese leaders paying for dead Rohingyas... killing for rewards places this Genocide in an even darker category.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The stench of hate is thick in Myanmar where Buddhists are actually paying for the murder of Rohingya Muslims, according to the latest from Twitter.

This 'bounty' style murder solicitation sounds old west, but they aren't asking for Rohingyas to be brought in dead or alive, only dead.

Hypocrisy

'Double-dealers’ should thoroughly disinfect their fingers before pointing them at another’s fleck.

(LOS ANGELES) - ‘Hypocrites’ are indulged in severe ‘mental lying’, as they brag on a certain notion, while in ‘reality’, they would actually be doing the ‘reverse’ of what they claim to be doing.

It is a form of ‘mental lying’, from which, not only these ‘phonies’ evidently cannot flee.

With An Impeachment On The Kerb, `Single Issues` And Dissenting `Left` Worth Nothing In SL

It is in such context that politics of today decides the birth of politics for tomorrow.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Colombo Telegraph) - A new Rajapaksa campaign is now given unofficial prominence. That of impeaching the Chief Justice.

It was reported a few days ago, some Ministers have put their signatures at an auspicious time, last Friday. Of course it was also said the signatures were on blank paper...

ANARCHISM

We cannot blame the ‘government’ alone, for selling us ‘flamboyant dreams’, by shrewdly disguising their ‘shady deals’ deep within.

(LOS ANGELES) - You are the ‘best judge’ in terms of how you should live, or how you may want to live your life on earth. No so-called ‘title baring interloper’ is qualified to ‘dictate terms’ on how you should be living life.

This earth has no ‘superior possession’ to any other ‘designated creature’, anymore than it has to you.

A New Slanging Match

Nepal confronts the UN over two reports on the ‘homeless’ and the ‘stateless’

(CHENNAI The Indian Express) - In early 1987, the UN country representative in Sri Lanka had a meeting with then President Junius Jayewardene to offer any help the UN could.

“That would not be a pleasant thing to happen, as Sri Lanka will be kicked like a football by its 180-odd members,” was the president’s firm answer.

`The Okapi and the Ghost-Frog`

Poetry review of historic children's tale.

(LOS ANGELES) - “THE OKAPI AND THE GHOST-FROG” saw daylight, as an inspiration from Edward Lear’s ever famous ‘Nonsense Poem’ initially published in 1871 ; “THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT”.

Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl named Janet Symonds - the daughter of Lear's friend and Poet ; John Addington Symonds, and his wife Catherine Symonds.

Another Drama in the Making

The most vociferous of the Tamil Diaspora group is the Global Tamil Forum.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Guardian) - The Tamils have become cheap political silage for the President Mahinda Rajapakse regime even after the war victory against the Tamil Tigers.

The government is extending the age old and the well practiced plan against the Tamils with the aim to keep them away from the centre of attention, influence, or power them further.

Former Tamil Tiger Fighters Become Sri Lankan Slave Labor?

Former soldiers of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) are working in the Vani, where well over 100,000 Tamils were killed during the intense fighting that ended in May 2009.

(THE VANI, Northern Sri Lanka) - Former soldiers of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) are working in the Vani, where well over 100,000 Tamils were killed during the intense fighting that ended in May 2009.

These former POW's/LTTE fighters are now working on an army farm about 200 acres in size.