High Commissioner Speaks to Muslim Diaspora in Melbourne,
Published on Mar 14, 2018 ….. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRAF0jAq6bw&feature=share
1983 and 2018: Kunanayakam’s Warnings suggest US-UNHCR-Yahapālana Machinations
Tamara Kunanayakam, in The Island, 15 March 2018, where the title reads thus: “Former PR in Geneva warns Lanka at the mercy of UN-US project” …. with the highlighting here being the work of The Editor, Thuppahi
Given that we find ourselves today standing at a pivotal crossroads in our nation’s history, I would like to begin and end by addressing an appeal to the Sri Lankan people – irrespective of the community they belong to – not to be swayed by events imposed upon them by others, but to keep their focus on the issues that concern them directly – the real issues, the issues that affect their daily lives, their working and living conditions, the issues that determined their vote and political choice at the recent Local Government elections.
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A Spectacular Message in a Bottle
I =Jonathan Pearlman, in The Telegraph, 6 March 2018, with title “Oldest message in a bottle found after 132 years”
The world’s oldest known message in a bottle – thrown off a German ship on June 12, 1886 – has been found by a family on a remote beach in Australia after their car became stuck in the sand. The message was written in German on paper which was bound and tied with a string and kept in a nineteenth-century Dutch gin bottle. The note stated it was thrown off the sailing barque Paula, about 600 miles off coast of Western Australia.
The bottle was found on a remote beach 100 miles north of Perth CREDIT: KYMILLMAN.COM
Sinhala-Muslim Violence in Lanka: An Appeal and Allegations from a Muslim Professional
M. M. Zuhair, in the Island, 13 March 2018, where the title is “Who is trying to destroy our unity and why?”
The mob violence that erupted at Ampara town on Monday February 26, a day after Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the stop-gap Minister of Law and Order and followed by violence in Digana, Teldeniya and several other parts of Kandy, independently of the Ampara events, will soon be forgotten, notwithstanding evidence that the extremist attacks in both places appear to be well organised following prior concert.
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Soccer: World Cup Trophy ends its Journey
YOU TUBE …. with Felicity George and Edgar Watson on Stage
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Liddle’s Sarcastic Criticism of David Cameron’s Arrogance in Sri Lanka at its CHOGM Occasion in 2013
A NOTE: With the UNHCR sessions looming in Geneva this month and CHOGM due to take place in London in the near future I am stirred to visit this moment when a local journalist broke away from the miasma clouding the judgement of a whole ‘tribe’ of media personnel in Britain in their reportage of the Sri Lankan war and its IDP camp aftermath. As I am in UK because of a family bereavement. I have been stirred to return to this puzzle. That is, my investigations of the scenario in Sri Lanka in 2009-2010 led me to the firm conclusion that the British media had bought into the clever propaganda of the LTTE — in part from ideological reasons (in my surmise). Among those who I would place in this camp of pro-Tiger supporters (in varying degrees) THEN are Frances Harrison, Marie Colvin, Jeremy Page, Nick Paton-Walsh, Gethin Chamberlain Charles Haviland and Alan Keenan (ICG)….. and of course Channel Four writ large. In such circumstances the ‘sniper commentators” who took a different stance (e.g.Simon Jenkins, Christopher Hitchens, Liddle) are worth a glance … or more. Any such exploration should also attend to some of the readings I am placing at the end of this article. Michael Roberts
Rod Liddle, “That’s the president of Sri Lanka, PM, not one of your fags,” in The Times, 17 November 2013,
I have to say, I thoroughly approve of the manner in which our prime minister has decided to deal with foreigners, especially jumped–up foreigners who by rights should really still be part of our dominion and thus be doing as they’re bloody well told. David Cameron struck precisely the right note with a man called Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is somehow running a place that I think we’d all prefer to call Ceylon. Normally when one is a guest in someone else’s country, it is incumbent upon the visitor to be polite, even deferential. Continue reading
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A Battery of Cricketers condemn Sinhala Racist Attacks
Mahela Jayawardena :https://twitter.com/mahelajay/status/971269970964381696
Sanath Jayasuriya :https://twitter.com/sanath07/status/971296370408808449
Kumar Sangakkara :https://twitter.com/kumarsanga2/status/971293153969000449 Continue reading
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Galkande Dhammananda Thero’s Calming Appeal for Sanity
A Message from Ven. Galkande Dhammananda of the Walpola Rahula Institute in Sri Lanka:, https://youtu.be/2sWW7cFzlYo
“Once again as a nation we have approached a juncture. Now Muslim people live in fear. So do Sinhalese people who have to pass through Muslim inhabited villages. Therefore no one is feeling safe at this moment.
Now we need to think about how we face this situation. Are we going to make the same mistakes we made in the past and create an era where multiple generations will end up suffering?
Pic courtesy of Colombo Telegraph
The Molotov Cocktail generating Communal Violence in Sri Lanka and India: A Select Bibliography
Michael Roberts
One image of the scene outside the hospital where Indira Gandhi lay dying in 1984 after she was assassinated by some of her Sikh bodyguards as retribution for the Indian government’s raid on a Sikh temple in the Punjab
PRIMARY ESSAYS
Michael Roberts: “Anguish as Empowerment … and A Path to Retribution,” 22 March 2017, https://thuppahis.com/?p=24595&preview=true
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