The Rule of Law in Australia aids Qi Guang Guo
Michael Inman & Steven Trask, Canberra Times, 5 March 2018 where the title is Älleged Triad boss Qi Guang Guo wins $35,001 for unlawful detention””
About 50 alleged gangsters, including this unidentified person, were arrested in this raid on a Chinese restaurant in 2002. Photo: Steve LuThe Australian government has been ordered to pay $35,001 to the alleged head of a Sydney-based Triad crime gang, know as the “Big Circle”, after he was wrongly locked up in immigration detention. It is the second time Qi Guang Guo, 60, has been compensated by the Commonwealth for wrongful imprisonment after he won $100,000 when he was illegally detained for 132 days between 2004 and 2005.
SL Government caves in to British Bullying: Brigadier Priyanka OUT… LTTE Flags Fly High
Rajeewa Jayaweera, in Sunday Island, 4 March 2019 …. with highlighting emphasis inserted by The Editor, Thuppahi
A relatively minor episode which took place outside the High Commission of Sri Lanka in London on February 04, blown out of proportion, has ended in the unconditional surrender by GoSL to Britain’s diktat.
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Colonialism within Todays’ Humanitarian Agency Work
Janaka Jayawickrama, courtesy of Al-Jazeera, 24 February 2018, where the title runs “Humanitarian aid system is a continuation of the colonial project …. Note that emphasis via highlighting has been added and minor editorial changes have been made by the Editor, Thuppahi
Haitians wait to get food coupons in downtown Port-au-Prince following the 2010 earthquake that wrecked much of Haiti’s capital and killed as many as 200,000 people [Eliana Aponte/Reuters]
The global humanitarian community is again in confusion. The Oxfam sexual misconduct scandal has made headlines. Policymakers and humanitarian leaders everywhere talk about the need for change. Over the last 30 years or so, there have been many scandals, and much demand for reform. However, business just continues as usual. According to Reuters, during the last year the Save the Children Fund claimed they fired 16 staff members over reports of sexual harassment and Oxfam reported it dismissed 22 of its staff. There are similar reports by various humanitarian agencies. What is terrifying is that the same person who quit his role with Oxfam 2011 after being accused of using sex workers while working in Haiti, was engaging in similar acts in 2006 during his time working for the charity in Chad. Oxfam knew about this but went ahead and sent this person to work in Haiti anyway.
A Sojourn Home: Reflections from DBS Jeyaraj in 2014
“It is better to light a small candle than curse the darkness” – says DBS Jeyaraj ina specific message directed at the Sri Lankan diaspora.
SEE http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/28340 … being an interview in the “Daily FT” (Daily Financial Times) of February 26th 2014. It can be accessed Here via this link)
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Baldwin’s Impersonation riles Trump into “Declaration of War” on Twitter
AFP News Item from DAWN, where the title reads as “Trump sparks new Twitter war with actor Alec Baldwin””
Donald Trump sparked a Twitter war with Alec Baldwin on Friday, reviving his public opprobrium of the actor’s critically acclaimed role impersonating the president on hit television show Saturday Night Live. If Baldwin started the row by telling The Hollywood Reporter in an interview that it was “agony” to play the 71-year-old commander-in-chief, regardless of picking up an Emmy award for his efforts, Trump hit back in good measure.
The president lashed out against Baldwin again for impersonating him on Saturday Night Live
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Vanishing Lifeways at the Foot of Galle Fort in the 1930s
Michael Roberts
The four images presented in this item were snapped by my maternal uncle Lincoln Perera (also spelt “Pereira”) in the early 1930s. They were one part of a small set of pictures that came into my hands way back in London in the 1960s when Lincoln, a confirmed batchelor, passed away there.
They had no captions or dates. However, one image shows the Old Lighthouse at the south western corner-bastion. This edifice (see pic below) burnt down in 1936 and was eventually replaced by a lighthouse at the south eastern corner which still functions today.
London is Brewing: Tamil Tigers, Brigadier Fernando and British Double Standards
Tamils in support of Pirapaharan, the LTTE and Tamil cause TODAY
Brigadier Priyanka Fernando’s Injudicious Challenge
Two Essayists Lambast the British Government for their Positions on Terror, the Pro-LTTE Tamils and the Brigadier Fernando Incident
ONE = Sara Dissanayake: “Anti-Terror Laws & British Hypocrisy,” in Colombo Telegraph,” February 2018,
The recent incident involving the throat-slit gesture made by Defense Attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando in response to the Eelamist protesters in London has, rightly so, stirred much controversy. Developments following the incident also sparked ample debate, prompting the public to take sides under the prevailing circumstances. Continue reading
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Mega-Bucks. Our Politicoes’ Bank Balances
Asian Tribune, 25 February 2018, where the title runs “President Maithripala Srisena – Third richest politician in Sri Lanka”
According to Forbes Report for the year 2018, Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena the 7th and current President of Sri Lanka – since 2015 to date – is the third richest politician in the country with US Dollar 14 million. Of course, Percy Mahendra ‘Mahinda’ Rajapaksa, the sixth President of Sri Lanka from 19 November 2005 – 9 January 2015, is the top most Sri Lankan richest politician with US Dollar 18 Billion.
