‘Prabakaran closed the door on me. I wanted peace’
In an interview, President Mahinda Rajapaksa is
combative towards the West and conciliatory towards India. This
year’s stunning and decisive military annihilation of the LTTE by
the Forces has created, in its wake, a humanitarian crisis of
colossal dimensions. Some 300,000 displaced persons, most of them
Tamils who were forced to flee their homes, are living in government
welfare camps awaiting rehabilitation.
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Reintegration of ex-combatants into civilian life
The National Framework Proposal on the
Reintegration of Ex-combatants into Civilian Life in Sri Lanka
developed by the Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry was
endorsed at a validation workshop held last Thursday, with the
participation of key stakeholders, Disaster Management and Human
Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe chaired the workshop.
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Reflections on disinformation
On the eve of the closure of the Peace
Secretariat, I had a call from the BBC to respond to an interview
they conducted with the American Assistant Secretary of State Eric
Schwarts who had been in Sri Lanka recently. His comments generally
made sense, and his stress on swift resettlement of the displaced
was understandable, and in line with Government policy, which is to
resettle them as soon as possible.
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