Private sector peeps in the streets. Photo by Geeshan Bandara
Seriously, just read it. It does not proscribe a war crimes investigation or sanctions, it just gives the government a homework assignment (reconcile better) and says Pillai will report on you later. Which is douchey, but not what it’s made out to be.
Actually, it makes me rather unhappy reading it again. I’ll have to write more later.
Did I support the UN Resolution? No, I think it’s unhelpful and it actually got people protesting FOR the government at a time of economic unrest. What it does is entrench the bias that Sri Lanka ending the war is bad and continues the vengeful calls for a pound of flesh.
Now Eelamists can say that the UN condemned SL (it indirectly does, but as much as they say) and the GoSL can say the same thing and the old stupid fault lines are reopened. In this case I call them fault lines because they’re faulty. The environment of acrimony and blame is unproductive, to see the least.
The most serious kicker in the resolution is that the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Pillai I think) is authorized to provide another report, and they’re already pretty biased. Honestly, it’s like the international community is giving Sri Lanka homework where the answer is actually wrong. It’s not cool.
Anyways, read the resolution. It’s like one page, yet surprisingly hefty for whacking people over the head with.
Naked chess?
Board game. Checkers. (Indi nodanna draughts)
Oh dear! Dodo is a nasty arms dealer :o
Didn’t some American defense type get in to trouble recently for speaking favourably about our handling of the war?
What is this all about? Killing of So called god of eelam!
There is no place on earth for fancy dreams!
If You still continue to dream the same dream
you had better consult a doctor, I mean a psychiatrist.
Am I the only person who realized that all of a sudden we are getting VERY cozy with the Chinese ( more so post-war) with all these space explorations and also geo-explorations?
We have no oil (not even a sniff of it), so why should the US lean on us so heavily?
Perhaps, and this is just my humble opinion, so hear me out, perhaps, big Sister India has been whining to the US of A because big-ole-China has nukes, and all of a sudden, here are the Chinese, building airports and exploring like Dora the Explorer!?
India complains that they feel insecure about how China is suddenly in its face (via Sri Lanka) and the US sits up, because India is the super power of the area.
Every single time we asked the US to help, they referred us to India instead. So, my guess is that all of this she-bang is caused by India and her insecurities.
Lets see how they roll.