Lanka seeks a political solution based on human rights
Excerpts of a speech made by Mahinda Samarasinghe
Minister of Disaster Management and Human rights at the inaugural
session of the UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva. " Today is a
historic day for all those who have worked relentlessly during the
past several years to make the UN human rights machinery more
responsive, accountable and able to heed the voices and sentiments
of the countless numbers of the aggrieved more effectively and to
act more decisively...
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Illegal arms and UN reform
"Guns do not kill people. Bullets do," and
bullets are available in abundance for those who want them. So
freely available is this lethal "cargo" that every human on earth at
present could be easily shot twice with the bullets thus at hand.
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Palm Court: Time to think positively on reactivating peace
effort
THE timely visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa
to the massacre site at Kebitigollewa not only consoled the families
of 64 innocent civilians including children and women who were
killed in the claymore explosion but also eased the tension in the
country as the Head of State was making the directives from
Kebitigollewa to strengthen the security to prevent any backlash.
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