Britain awards compensation for colonial crimes :
Sri Lanka must now submit its claims
After 63 years of consistent denial despite
overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence of British war crimes and
crimes against humanity in British colonies, the wheels of justice
have finally turned against Britain which has now agreed to pay £20m
to 5,228 Mau Mau torture victims for crimes against humanity
committed during colonial rule under the British Empire.
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13 A: THE AMENDMENT OPPONENTS ARE FLOORED
The reaction of the inveterate critics of the
government to the proposed constitutional amendments, as usual, is
not based upon reason. Their attempts to whip up hysteria that the
two proposed amendments, especially the proposal to repeal Article
154(G)(3) as “dangerous”, and that they will render the 13th
Amendment “worthless” are based not on reasoned logic, but on the
entrenched position that carving out of an ethnic enclave in the
North needs to be achieved at all costs.
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