Latest ICG report runs off the rails - Part I

Trying to punish Lanka for resolving deadly conflict the Sri Lankan way:

Asia report titled ‘War Crimes in Sri Lanka’ carries the ICG seal of approval with a huge claim to be working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy (listen to this!) to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.

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The Morning Inspection

Did you cross border or did border cross you?

THERE were no calls for ‘truth and reconciliation’ then (or now) and certainly no investigation on crimes against humanity, perhaps because Christiani belonged to a party that was founded by a man who was trained in the infamous ‘School of the Americas’. What hit me was this sign held by a woman: ‘50 percent Mexican, 50 percent Salvadorian, 100 percent American’.

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Thinking Cap

More crisis after the crisis is over!

THE International Crisis Group with its latest initiation to investigate into the alleged atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan Army in the last stages of the Sri Lankan conflict is threatening to open up healing wounds in Sri Lanka.

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