Countries they have docs on, Sri Lanka at the right
Wikileaks has 3,166 documents on Sri Lanka. They’re releasing docs in batches, so we probably won’t see for months, but it should be interesting. The US was actually not that involved in the war and probably not party to much useful information, but perhaps their disapproval for the Rajapaksas would come across. I wonder wonder. This Wikileaks stuff is interesting, but I wish someone would leak what’s going on inside this government or deeper inside Arab governments rather than more information on what is already one of the more transparent government around. Anyways, these documents will come out, so keep yourself and myself posted. As you can see from above, there is info on seemingly every country on earth (the image is only part of the map) and it makes one wonder why the US kept such sensitive information in such a leaky place.
On another note, the Wikileaks website actually sucks, though I suppose it has its hands full just stay up in the face of doubtless onslaughts from various cyberwar troops. It has no search and the front page doesn’t even mention what they call Cablegate, wait now it does. But that took all day. It’s like a blog with two posts and a YouTube interview. There main aim seems to be distributing these docs to mainstream news outlets, which I think is a good idea. It is fascinating that this one organization can take a giant data dump on the news cycle of the civilized world. Julian Assange started as a hacker, and he is now living the hacker dream.
For comments on the currently released docs, please see America Sees Its Own Shadow. Note that no SL docs are released yet, except one which mentions somewhat routine inquiries to the UN about human rights here
Is there anything that we don’t know about SL? We know what the police does to child rapists. We know that Rajapakses make a damn lot of money, and that they don’t like Harry Jayawardena. We know that tamil civilians were shelled. We know that Fonseka made that white flag comment. We know that captured tigers get f**ked. And we know that someone in some tabloid has saggy b**bs.
Nicobar, Andaman and Lakshadeep, interesting. At the end everyone will pretend to forget these or having read them. It is just conformation of what people already knew!
I wonder why wikileaks only get docs on USA? I have not seen any on China, Russia, UK. Perhaps it is because it is the only open place so far!
What I’d find more interesting to see is how America’s strong allies will react to their attitude, especially the royal families, governments and people who have been named in the UK and Saudi Arabia.
Seems there is bad stuff in the leaks for sl. Darn, it says MR is a war criminal.