by Amanda Hodge | in Colombo THE Sri Lankan navy has called for Australia to send back large numbers of asylum-seekers as a real deterrent to people-smugglers, and warned that its efforts to help the Gillard government combat the problem were rapidly draining its scarce resources. Senior naval officials have also flagged the possibility of [...]
Archive of entries posted on 29th July 2012
AlJazeera Video: ‘As long as human rights violations continue in Sri Lanka, people will flee and go to a safe country’
About 700 migrants have been arrested so far this year, and more than half of them in the last three weeks. The final segment of Al Jazeera’s three-part series on Australia’s immigration debate looks at attempts to stop so-called boat people from making the dangerous voyage. Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports: Al Jazeera interview re: [...]
Sri Lankan Navy brings back Asylum seekers in mid-sea transfer from merchant vessel at night
by Amanda Hodge | On the SLNS Samudura UNDER a clammy half-moon, the Sri Lankan navy ship Samudura inches towards the intimidating beams of a 330m super-tanker until the two hulls collide with a gentle thud. The SLNS Samudura is less than one-fifth the size of the Euronav, but it was the navy that was [...]
Staunchly Zionist Policy of The State of Israel leads to self-destruction
by Uri Avnery “He talks Zionism,” used to be a very derogatory comment when I was young. It meant that some elderly functionary had come to waste our time with a boring speech consisting largely of empty phrases. That was before the foundation of the State of Israel. Since then, the term Zionism has been [...]
Recommendations of LLRC Report and Implementation Proposals of National Plan of Action
By Namini Wijedasa The government made it clear last week that there will be no separate event on National Day to express solidarity and empathy will all victims of the war, as recommended by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. What would be observed instead was the present practice of continuing to “express solidarity as [...]
‘I don’t think The Attorney General has been defending every act of The Government’ –Attorney General
By Namini Wijedasa Sarath Palitha de Silva, the newly appointed attorney-general, said last week there was no political interference in the attorney general’s department and that all officers were able to work according to their conscience. Excerpts from the interview:
Legendary Cricketer Abu Fuard whose life was woven around Cricket
by Premasara Epasinghe (legendary Cricketer and cricket administrator Abu Fuard passed away on July 28th at the age of 75.This article written in 2010 is reproduced here in honour of his memory) He was a man for all seasons. His life is woven around cricket. In early 1950s, he was one of the best schoolboy [...]
