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The concept of Responsibility to Protect has triggered resistance in many countries of the Global South precisely because of its potential misapplication to situations such as the Sri Lankan one. Lakshman Kadirgamar, the former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, was one of the most incisive legal minds of his generation. A former president of the Oxford Union, he made significant contributions …
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CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 Documents by Kate Doyle and Peter Kornbluh
These documents, including an instructional guide on assassination found among the training files of the CIA’s covert “Operation PBSUCCESS,” were among several hundred records released by the Agency on May 23, 1997 on its involvement in the infamous 1954 coup in Guatemala. After years of answering Freedom of Information Act requests with its standard “we can neither confirm nor deny …
Read More »The anxieties of the People of Jaffna – an opportunity for National growth and harmony A statement by the Rt. Rev. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo
I recently returned from one of my regular Pastoral visits to our Congregations (Churches) and Schools in Jaffna . Such visits are always educative and humbling. What was immediately noticeable was the pre-occupation with routine in the lives of the people; simply because there seems to be little else to look forward to. People went about their daily business and …
Read More »Smile on the face of the Tiger, By John Pilger
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger de-codes the “historic” speech President Obama made in Cairo “reaching out to the Muslim world”, according to the BBC: in reality showing the seductive face of American power as it proceeds towards its unchanged goal. At 7.30 in the morning on 3 June, a seven-month-old baby died in the intensive …
Read More »Sri Lanka’s ‘Invisible’ people By Kumari Jayawardena
The timeliness of this book review is underlined by these words of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the people of Sri Lanka on May 19, on the occasion of the country’s ‘30 year war’ coming to a close: “We have removed the word minorities from our vocabulary three years ago. No longer are the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and any others …
Read More »Shanghai Forum: Superpower politics and Central Asian oil
Who said the Cold War was dead? It appears that what happened in late 1991 was a premature announcement of the death of the cold war that existed between the two superpower-led blocks – one led by the United States and the other by the Soviet Union. With the disintegration of the mighty Soviet Union, it was said that the …
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