ANDREW ALEXANDER: Did David Cameron see the truth in Sri Lanka?
By ANDREW ALEXANDER- 20 November 2013A Commonwealth Conference seems a strange launch pad for any campaign for human rights.
By ANDREW ALEXANDER- 20 November 2013A Commonwealth Conference seems a strange launch pad for any campaign for human rights.
This useless organisation, set up as a pretence that the British Empire lived on, has long contained a notable proportion of corrupt and repressive regimes, in conflict with their own people and even each other.
But David Cameron had no reservations during last week’s occasion, even if three nations refused to attend, given Sri Lanka’s record in its own civil war.
Ultimatum: British Prime Minister David Cameron during the CHOGM meeting in Colombo urged the Sri Lankan government to take fast action on human rights in the country
He set off for the Tamil north of the country, and visited a refugee camp and a newspaper office where the bullet holes in the walls were the result of a raid by government forces, he was told.
He could say that he had seen for himself how brutal was the government of President Rajapaksa.
