UN panel opts for selective amnesia - Manila Times

‘What hurts me is that the panel has failed to recognize the immense steps the government has taken to bring peace and reconciliation, matched with development, to the north and north-east of the country that not too long ago was controlled with an armed fist by the LTTE.

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Will Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu shed much-needed light, please?

Saravanamuttu knows that the ‘recommendations’ in the report say nothing about holding the LTTE accountable, even though history of such justice-seeking mechanisms consequent to war-end have not summarily acquitted anyone militarily and/or politically associated with the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. His inability to see slant in this reveals his own slant,

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Political Revery:

Scripting Cop Movie II

Gus and Luigi keep messing up, riling the populace, bringing in SWAT teams, deploying disproportionate firepower and generally making things worse. The neighbourhoods in their precinct are in far worse condition than before they started trying to clear up,

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