[TamilNet, Monday, 19 September 2011, 09:36 GMT]
Choosing a time when Geneva is supposed to decide on investigating Sri Lanka’s war crimes, New Delhi has scheduled a large-scale joint military exercise with Sri Lanka in Trincomalee in the country of Eezham Tamils. Meanwhile, a senior leader of India’s major opposition party, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi of BJP, chose to deliver a lecture in Colombo on Saturday commemorating a Sinhala-Buddhist revivalist, and according to The Hindu, Dr. Joshi “was left with the impression that everyone wanted an early solution leading to a united Sri Lanka under one constitution.” Both the Administration and Opposition of New Delhi indirectly signal against investigating genocidal Sri Lanka’s war crimes and the ‘impression’ Joshi conveyed to The Hindu has no moral validity as Tamils are constitutionally prevented from telling their opinion on the national question, commented a Tamil politician in the island. Full story >>
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‘India won’t push for federalism in Lanka’
COLOMBO: BJP MP and chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament, Murli Manohar Joshi, has indicated that India will not push Sri Lanka to adopt a federal constitution to solve the long-festering Tamil question in the island nation. Joshi told Indian correspondents here on Sunday, that India had no intention of pressing Sri Lanka to adopt any particular type of constitution to solve the ethnic question. Whether the constitution should be federal or unitary was a matter to be decided through discussions between the various stakeholders in Lanka itself, he said.
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Razed Sri Lankan Muslim shrine to be rebuilt
By Charles HavilandBBC News, Colombo
19 September 2011
Sri Lanka's defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has ordered the reconstruction of a Muslim shrine recently destroyed by Buddhist monks.
Mr Rajapaksa told a delegation of prominent Muslims the shrine will be rebuilt after Buddhist monks led a crowd in tearing it down nine days ago.The demolition was denounced by both Muslims and Sinhalese (Photo courtesy: Sri Lanka Mirror)
