Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Navi Pillay’s visit:She came, she saw, she did not concur 


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by Rajan Philips-September 7, 2013

UN Human Rights Commissioner NavanethamPillay’s weeklong visit to the country is remarkable on several counts. As always, the visit has since been overshadowed by other events both local and international. It is a fact of life in our time that real-time information and rapid news dissemination impose on us, ordinary mortals, new developments everywhere and in quick succession before we are able to digest and/or deal with preceding developments.