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Interfering in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs :
Intentions of vested groups exposed - Ambassador Kunanayakam
In a wide ranging interview Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the United Nations – Geneva, Tamara
Kunanayakam said, “What, in fact, is the US trying to tell us with
their draft resolution? They are not saying that our LLRC report is
bad. They are not saying that there are gross and systematic
violations of human rights in Sri Lanka. What they are saying is
that they don’t have confidence that we will implement the
recommendations.
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Calls cops to quash questions:
Amnesty in the hot seat
Saghal in a public statement following her
firing accused AI of not being troubled by terrorism and of actually
supporting jihadism as ‘the individual obligation of every Muslim.’
The depths of AI’s moral bankruptcy, its unapologetic support of
terrorist groups, and the extent to which the once respected rights
group has strayed from its original purpose to become, at several
levels, as repressive, autocratic, and insidious as the governments
it opposes, played out in tableau at its screening of the Channel 4
documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields in Palo Alto, California, on
February 18.
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The plea of an ex- Tiger in a Canadian prison:
Don’t take to violence, choose a free life...
He suffers... he recalls... he regrets knowing
that it’s too late for him to overcome the agony but he is confident
that he is not too late to change those blindly embraced and clogged
unrealizable dreams, being a mere illusion and to walk in the
correct path.
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External pressure threatens Sri Lanka's right to development
Taking the floor under the general debate of
Item 3 (Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right
to development), Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN
in Geneva Tamara Kunanayakam affirmed that if the "Council is to
remain credible, it must give equal attention to economic, social
and cultural rights as to civil and political rights; to the
collective dimension as to the individual dimension; to the
international as to the national."
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