Sunday 04 September 2011Sunday, September 4, 2011
They vanished in a mystery as slippery as the ethereal forms in which they slithered in. How strange that once the campaign to have the state of emergency fell flat on its face some mysterious power that orchestrates the motion of the planets in the vicinity of Lanka decided to recall the grease devils (GD) and barrack them away in a safe place for now. One thing is for sure, if the purpose of unleashing the GDs was to convince the public that the extension of emergency powers was indispensable, the haunting boomeranged. It made people in swathes of out-station and Muslim areas furious with the police and military authorities and multiplied the accumulating anger against the government. Read more.
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Major General Jagath Dias Under Scrutiny
Sunday, September 04, 2011By Gazala Anver
Major General Jagath Dias
In the backdrop of Sri Lanka standing accused of committing war crimes during the the final stages of the war, a report from the European Centre for Constutitional and Human Rights (ECCHR), dated January 2011, has accused another Sri Lankan Army Officer, Major General Jagath Dias, of committing war crimesMajor General Jagath Dias was the commander of the 57th Division of the Army and is currently Sri Lanka’s Deputy Ambassador in Berlin.
