One after the other political leaders from the west, especially Britain and France, rushed to the island to show their humanitarian concern for the displaced Tamils who were used as human shield by the now defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, LTTE, which claimed to fight for the interest of this very same people. However, these Western politicians’ humanitarian concerns …

The 20th anniversary of the demolition of the 96 mile long  Berlin Wall which marked the collapse of the Soviet Union, Germany’s unification and the end of Cold War was observed throughout the Europe especially in Germany with great festivity. There were fire works and music festivals to mark the occasion. Celebrations attended by thousands of people in pouring rain …

Sandwiched between US, European, Israeli and Indian designs and Pakistani Quislings! Will Pakistan, the only Muslim nuclear country, survive the present Western conspiracies or will be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the   fear expressed   in view of the combined forces of United States, Europe and Israel which destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan have now extended their designs …

President Barack Obama who promised peace but prosecuting wars ??was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize almost nine months into the office and hardly any achievement to speak of. The Oslo based Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland said that ?only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world?s attention and given its people hope for …

The last surviving member of Turkey’s Othman dynasty, Ertuğrul Osman Osmanoğlu, died at the age of 97 at a private hospital in Istanbul on Wednesday 23 September. He was laid to rest on Friday September 25 in the Istanbul garden of the tomb of his grand father Sultan Mahmud II. The emotional religious ceremony was attended by hundreds of thousands …

Part of this article, dealing up to the Indian involvement, was published in the Ceylon Daily Mirror on Tuesday 22 September 2009 It is heartening to note the swift international response to the misery of Internally Displaced Tamils. There is no doubt that every country ,every organization and every individual should make every effort  to ameliorate the  conditions of  about …