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Targeting Lanka by Playing Ball with Tamil Extremism: 2008-14
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Groundviews, where the title is slightly different. The original essay was presented at the 9th International Convention of Asian Scholars held in Adelaide from 5-9th July 2015 and was therefore designed as a 15-minute presentation. Hyperlinks, … Continue reading →
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One-Eyed Zealousness: Extremist Australians For and Against the Tamil Cause in Lanka
Michael Roberts The 60 year-old Tasmanian lady, Dianah Paramour’s campaign (Fig. 01) against specific activities of personnel in Australia, both Tamil Australian and Anglo-Australian, who have been vigorously advocating the claims of the Tamils and/ the Tamil Tigers of Sri … Continue reading →
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A Drama in Four Acts: Dishonest Reportage by Amnesty International and Aussie Journalists remains Unmasked
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/dishonest-reportage-by-ai-aussie-journalists-remains-unmasked-a-drama-in-two-acts/, 2 September 2015, where it is presented in Two Acts A. Thoughts on My Abject Failure On the 31st March 2011 a panel of lawyers appointed by Ban Ki-Moon submitted a review of … Continue reading →
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Ambassador Blake in Never-Never-Land: Misreading LTTE Capacity in Early 2009
Ambassador Blake in Never-Never-Land: Misreading LTTE Capacity in Early 2009 Michael Roberts ..…The initial version of this article was actually drafted in late 2014, but I let it lie because I wished to pursue my reading of the ambassadorial despatches … Continue reading →
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American Action and Inaction on Sri Lanka, 2008/09: A Critical Evaluation
Michael Roberts A. Preamble Robert Blake reached Sri Lanka in early September 2006[1] and served in that capacity till he succeeded Richard Boucher as the Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in Washington on May 26, … Continue reading →
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The Responsibility to Protect and External Interventions in the Sri Lankan Conflict
Gerald H Peiris, unabridged version of the article submitted by G H Peiris to the ‘Jagran Forum’ 2007 …. with emphases as in the original word file version. …. note that just this week an American internationalist with cross-country experience … Continue reading →
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The Sydney Gunman Monis: Many Faces & Many Phases
“Greg Bearup, in The Australian 17 December 2014, with the heading “A Convert from Malcontent to Murderer” ON the afternoon of the September terrorism raids in Sydney and Brisbane, a group of Muslims gathered to protest in Lakemba. One of … Continue reading →
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The Killing of Osama bin Laden: Rob O’Neill, the Seal, speaks
Toby Harnden, in The Australian, courtesy of The Sunday Times, 11 February 2015, with the title “The Man who shot Osama” IT was a fraction of a second, but the moment he saw Osama bin Laden is seared in Rob … Continue reading →
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Cartographic & Photographic Illustrations in support of the Memorandum Analysing the War in Sri Lanka and Its Propaganda Debates
Michael Roberts No survey of Eelam War IV — especially its last phase from late 2008 to May 2009 — can be pursued without some comprehension of the unfolding geographical context and some attention to illustrative pictorial details of the LTTE … Continue reading →
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Tamil Person and State: Pictorial … Images Listed
Michael Roberts Contents Acknowledgements v Preface vii List of Pictorial Items xvii Abbreviations xxxiii Prologue xxxv Visual Imagery within Political Struggles and Manoeuvres …. pp. 1-44 Photographs …. pp. 45-208 Postface: BBC Blind …. pp. 209-29 Bibliography …. pp. … Continue reading →
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