Colombo Telegraph
IN JOURNALISM TRUTH IS A PROCESSNOVEMBER 6, 2011
By Brian Senewiratne – Brisbane, Australia
What is alarming is that a regime guilty of some of the most serious war-crimes and crimes against humanity, is getting away with it.
Brian Senewiratne
The humanitarian situation in the Tamil-speaking area in the North and East, more than two years after the so called ‘end’ of the war, between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Tamil people, is the most serious the Tamils have faced in their 2,500 years of recorded history. In the six decades that I have campaigned for the rights of the Tamils to live with equality, dignity, safety, and now to live at all, I cannot think of any period in which they have been in such a dreadful situation.deo (see below). The entire objective is to force the Tamil people to accept Sri Lanka as a Sinhala- Buddhist Nation.
Ban ki-Moon to claim that he has no power to implement the recommendations of his Panel of
s is arrant nonsense
Despite feeble claims by the GoSL that the evidence presented was fabricated, there are few, if any, who would doubt the authenticity of what was shown since the original recordings have been checked by international experts. This is evidence which will not go away, as the GoSL hopes it will.
Sinhalese political opportunists from the entire Sinhalese polity, and ethnoreligious chauvinist bigots among the politically active Buddhist monks, and conducted by Sri Lankan Armed Forces
