DUPLICITOUS US BULLYING OF SL IN THE GUISE OF PROTECTING HR

It was reported in recent media reports that US Ambassador Michele Sison in an address to the Foreign Correspondents Association in Colombo spoke “about the next steps for US engagement with Sri Lanka”. This was in the aftermath of the second US-backed resolution at the Human Rights Council in Geneva last month. She said that the 2012 resolution simply asked the Government of Sri Lanka to fulfill its own commitments to its people from its Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report, and to meet its own international obligations.

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Opportunity abounds in a Sri Lanka rebuilding for all

President Mahinda Rajapaksa brought peace to Sri Lanka in 2009, ending three decades of bloodshed by the Tamil Tiger (LTTE) terrorist group. Sri Lankans of diverse ethnicity and religious faith embraced this victory with optimism and delight.

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Up the railings and into the Queen’s bedroom

It was early morning on June 1981, when her Royal Highness, Britains Queen Elizabeth II woke up from her slumber. She was seated on her bed according to the newspapers; one of them being the Sun which has the largest circulation (quoting the intruder's wife) When 33 year old Michael Fagan an out of work decorator from North London, stepped into her bedroom, carrying a piece of broken glass from an ash tray which he had smashed and bleeding from a right thumb.

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