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By Lt. Colonel (Retd) Athula Lankadeva RWP, RSP, USP, psc, MSc The Sunday Times of 29 Oct carried an article referring to Lord Naseby on demanding to remove the war crime tag from Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby researched classified documents to find that UN has fudged the casualty figure...
By Neville Ladduwahetty UN Special Rapporteur, Pablo de Greiff, at a media briefing following his 14-day visit to Sri Lanka stated: “Sri Lanka continues to deprive itself of the benefits of Transitional Justice”. Before addressing the benefits of Transitional Justice, certain fundamentals need to be clarified. Some of these fundamentals...
Since Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka ( DJ ) has retorted to my reply, in Daily Mirror 19th Oct, let me also respond to certain facts he brought to justify his “ stand” and challenge my views. His answer to “Tamil Discrimination” was “1958 Emergency” and “Black July ’83”. These were incidents...
I am not an expert like Dr. Dayan Jayatillaka (DJ) with Doctorates in International politics. I am an old salt, who was in active service from the beginning to the end of the war. Whilst reading DJ’s article appeared in Daily Mirror on 11th Oct and listening to his...