From Rock to Arbour

PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa on an official visit to New Delhi during the Rock controversy quite rightly rejected all allegations made by Rock. He dismissed the charge as a ‘joke’ and claimed that even the LTTE had not made such a charge against Sri Lankan Security Forces. Alan Rock, quite blind to the ground situation in Sri Lanka failed to investigate how children were conscripted to be trained in guerrilla warfare.

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Writing the Tigers’ Obit

By withdrawing from the Norwegian-brokered ceasefire, signed in 2002 with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lankan Government is only ‘’legalising existing ground reality,’’ a Government spokesman says.

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Arbour’s Harbour

Her job as the prosecutor is to act on the evidence without bias. And the evidence against Prabhakaran has been mounting daily with Arbour sleeping on the job. Is this what she’s paid for? When the policewoman is sleeping at the gate guarding the premises of human rights doesn’t it make the job easier for criminals like Prabhakaran to get away with impunity?

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International maritime security: A rising issue

The first years of the 21st century witnessed the expansion of sea trade, boomed by the world trade acceleration. In parallel international maritime security, emerges as a focal point in the overall security architecture as exercised by the battle against terrorism and organized crime.

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