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

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

IGP takes action against duty conscious PC who duly issued a fine order to deputy Minister transgressing traffic laws
(Lanka-e-News- 02.June.2014, 9.30PM) It is a matter for deep regret that the IGP of Sri Lanka (SL) N.K. Ilangakoon alias Napunsakoon ( effeminate eunuch ) has in order to protect a Minister the brazen traffic law transgressor and his murderous gang, taken action to inquire into how the constable of his own police department who issued a traffic offense fine payment order duly against a deputy Minister is owning a car. 

It is very unfortunate that despite this duty conscious police officer having to face severe sufferings at the hands of the deputy Minister and his gang of hooligans simply because he discharged his police duty duly of imposing a fine on the deputy Minister , the IGP instead of applauding the officer of his own department for his righteous conduct had deemed it right to take action in disfavor of him and in favor of the wrongdoer and his criminal gang. It is to be noted that the police constable was threatened , intimidated ,assaulted and his car was set on fire by this violent gang of the Minister . This action of the IGP has therefore incurred the displeasure and resentment of the entire police department who consider this action as tantamount to a fallen cop being gored by a mad castrated bull of an IGP.

After Lanka e news exposed this obnoxious distortion of the true episode in every detail , the criminal defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse who is now abroad had phoned the IGP and instructed to suppress the episode.

Already following instructions given by the IGP who is most notorious for cleansing the dirt ,dross and stench of the loin cloths of the Rajapakses, action has been taken by the OIC of the Kottawa police security post to destroy the records made by the police constable in the daily register at the entry point at Kottawa on the 20 th regarding the threats and intimidation he was subjected to by the deputy Minister. In addition, the IGP is taking action in a manner that would make PC Suminda who performed his duty duly to face charges that his actions tarnished the image of the police department.

Sumith Edirisinghe the DIG in charge of the western south division , another shameless stooge, and SSP Roshan Silva have been deployed by the IGP to suppress this incident. Sumith Edirisinghe is taking immediate steps to transfer PC Suminda who is now warded at Dodangoda hospital to the police hospital because Suminda is rattling off the whole truth to all and sundry . Indeed , the deputy Minister of health , Lalith Dissanayake had spoken to the Dodangoda hospital and exerted pressure to transfer Suminda to the police hospital.

Meanwhile , a UN organization officer who had seen the deputy Minister’s hooligan conduct on the 20 th at the Kottawa security post when he was screaming in filth at Suminda , speaking to Lanka e news gave details (his name cannot be disclosed right now) thus : The Minister was in a metallic grey color BMW super luxury car with a garage number. He was in an orange shirt and wearing trousers . When the Minister was conducting himself in the disgraceful manner between 9.00 a.m. and 9.20 a.m. , the UN officer had been in the vicinity , he told Lanka e news. 

The same officer emphasized that a vehicle with a garage number cannot even legally enter the expressway , then how come this vehicle entered and committed a traffic offense too ? he questioned. When the brute of a deputy Minister was refusing to accept the fine order after committing the offense and was yelling out while threatening the police officer, he also ordered the officer who was duly discharging his duty to fall at his feet and ask for pardon . The police officer on the other hand was pleading with the deputy Minister to behave better warning the Minister that they are under the surveillance of the CCTV cameras, the officer further explained.

The Minister had shouted back ‘yakko (devil) we know how to delete even the recordings of yours.’

Yesterday , the records of the threats made to Suminda by Hemal Gunasekera which were clear direct evidence that the latter was responsible for the subsequent attack launched on Suminda and setting fire to his car ,were destroyed. Moreover the CCTV recordings ought to be in the custody of the police . If they are not in police custody it is obvious that they have been destroyed by the IGP Ilangakoon alias Napunsakoon. 

It is reported that until this evening , the deputy Minister had not been questioned, although a statement of the police constable who discharged his duty duly was recorded in the night.

It is now a most pertinent question , what law enforcement can be expected of a police force towards the public that is incapable of doing justice to a low rung officer of its own department after he was threatened , attacked , harassed and his car burnt ? Is this because the police force is impotent since its chief is a castrated eunuch ?

The rank and file of the police are also questioning , why is the IGP who is inquiring into how did this PC buy a cheap Nano car , not investigating how did DIG Anura Senanayake manage to buy such a large commercial venture like the ‘Bake House ?’ 

Sadly, after the advent of the IGP Ilangakoon alias Napunsakoon , the police department had gone to the dogs . This is a necessary result when the one at the top is himself a dog that has contracted rabies following the cleansing of the stinking loin cloths of the regime.

Even greater war against corruption, nepotism, debt – Daya Gamage 


daya 0UNP national organizer Daya Gamage says that this month, after 30 years of civil war and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, Sri Lanka has now enjoyed 5 years of peace, but today the country faces an even greater war, a war against corruption, nepotism and the overburdening of debt on the people.

Severe weather kills 23, thousands displaced

Severe weather kills 23, thousands displaced logo
June 3, 2014 
Heavy rains followed by floods and landslides have claimed 23 lives so far in six districts, police said. More than half of the deaths have been reported in the Kalutara District, the worst affected by torrential rains. 

A total of 14 persons died in the Kalutara District from natural disasters caused by intermittent downpour since Sunday while 3 deaths each have been reported from Colombo and Ratnapura districts. 

Galle, Matara and Kurunegala districts have recorded one death each, the Police Spokesman’s Office said, adding, several persons have been injured from weather related incidents across the country.   

Meanwhile the Minister of Disaster Management Mahinda Amaraweera stated that a sum of Rs 15,000 will be provided to the family of those who perished due to floods and landslides. 

Addressing a press conference to brief media on the current disaster situation today, the Minister conceded that the grant is insufficient, but said that is the sum allocated for each victim by the Treasury. 

He stated that Rs 4 million, Rs 1.5 million, Rs 1 million and Rs 1 million have been provided to the District Secretaries of the Kalutara, Gampaha, Galle and Ratnapura districts respectively in addition to Rs 500,000 for emergency needs. 

Kalutara District is the worst affected district by torrential rains with 12,651 persons displaced. 

Over 40 houses have been completely destroyed due to heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding in the district while another 101 homes have been partially damaged. 

Palinda Nuwara, Bulathsinhala, Walallawita and Millaniya Divisional Secretary Areas have been surrounded by water and therefore the people in those areas are being provided with dry rations and other supplies.

Union minister Gopinath Munde killed in road collision, blow for Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) greets L.K. Advani, senior leader of  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), next to the casket of Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde at the party headquarters in New Delhi June 3, 2014. REUTERS-Anindito Mukherjee
ReutersBY SANJEEV MIGLANI-NEW DELHI Tue Jun 3, 2014
(Reuters) - Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde died on Tuesday after a road collision in New Delhi, depriving Prime Minister Narendra Modi of a key ally eight days after coming to office with a mandate to revitalise a stalled economy.
India's roads are among the most dangerous in the world, and the capital, New Delhi, ranks near the top of cities that account for the most fatalities.
Gopinath Munde, 64, was on his way to the airport for a victory rally in his home state of Maharashtra, when his sedan was hit by a car. He died in hospital.
"My tributes to a dynamic leader whose premature demise leaves a void hard to fill," Modi said in a tweet, amid a flurry of tributes from allies and political opponents. "Condolences to Munde's family. We stand by them in this hour of grief."
Dozens of supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party swarmed the party headquarters where Munde's body was brought in a flower-bedecked truck. Modi laid a wreath and consoled members of Munde's family, including his daughter.
Modi had entrusted to Munde the crucial task of spearheading a battle on poverty in the countryside, home to more than half of India's population of 1.2 billion, but which contributes just 14 percent of gross domestic product in Asia's third-largest economy.
The minister was sitting in the back of his Maruti SX4 sedan when it was hit on the side by a Tata Indica saloon, whose driver police said was in custody. Munde's driver and a personal assistant survived.
Doctors tried to revive Munde for 50 minutes after he was taken to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital, a hospital spokesman said. "There was no spontaneous breathing, no pulse, no cardiac activity," he added.
India is the world's capital of road deaths, thanks to a lethal brew of poor road planning, weak law enforcement, a surge in trucks and cars, and a flood of untrained drivers.
More than 230,000 people were killed on Indian roads in 2010, or a rate of almost 19 deaths per 100,000 people. As many as 15 people died in road accidents every hour in India in 2012 with 53 injured, the National Crime Records Bureau says.
Piyush Tewari, president and founder of SaveLIFE Foundation, said lack of enforcement of rules, of air bags and of rapid trauma care was the cause of so many deaths.
"Enforcement is almost negligible. If it's almost negligible in a city like Delhi, you can imagine what happens in other parts of the country," he told Reuters.
Munde becomes at least the third senior Indian politician to die in a car crash in recent times. The Congress party's Rajesh Pilot, a former transport minister, was killed in 2000, and Sahib Singh Verma, a former BJP labour minister, in 2007.
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Modi called a cabinet meeting to mourn Munde, whose body was to be flown home for a funeral on Wednesday.
From 1995 to 1999, Munde was deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. He was twice elected to the Lok Sabha, in 2009 and again last month in the landslide general election victory of the BJP.
He had served as the party's deputy leader in parliament and was being considered a potential chief minister of Maharashtra, where the BJP is hoping to oust its Congress rival in elections for a new assembly later this year.
Maharashtra, along with neighbouring Gujarat, Modi's home state, is one of India's engines of growth on the west coast, and is vital to plans to restore momentum to the economy.
"It is a big blow for us," Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, a party colleague from Maharashtra, told reporters.
As a leader of a backward community, Munde had helped the party expand its base in rural areas and among low-ranking castes, especially in the state's central region of Marathwada.
India's rural development ministry is also charged with administering a land acquisition law adopted by the previous Congress government and which has drawn mixed reactions.
While activists hailed its provision of securing up to 80 percent approval from the owners of land targeted for acquisition, Indian business fears the procedures will swell costs and delay investment projects.
Munde defended the law in his first comments after taking office, saying it was not aimed at industrialists.

(Additional reporting by Krishna N Das, Ratnajyoti Dutta, Tommy Wilkes and Rajesh Kumar Singh in New Delhi and Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Nick Macfie)
Tiananmen square protests and crackdown: 25 years on

1989 Raw Video: Man vs. Chinese tank Tiananmen square

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The Guardian homeAs Beijing seeks to quell discussion of 1989, three protesters and an expert on Chinese politics discuss how the massacre has shaped today's China, the alternative courses that the country might have taken and the prospects for political reform
Soldiers face to face with student demonstrators during 1989's Tiananmen Square protestsSoldiers face to face with student demonstrators during 1989's Tiananmen Square protests. Photograph: Peter Turnley/CORBIS
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Tuesday 3 June 2014
The anniversary has been preceded by scores of detentions, with others placed under house arrest. Some detainees have been charged with offences carrying prison terms of several years for holding a private memorial gathering. Google services have been disrupted and police have warned some foreign journalists they face unspecified consequences for covering sensitive issues.Twenty-five years after the bloody military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protestsChina is seeking to quell all discussion of the massacre by locking up, charging or harassing artists, scholars, lawyers, bloggers and relatives of victims.

Altaf Hussain 'arrested' in London on suspicion of money laundering

Controversial leader of Karachi's Muttahida Qaumi Movement detained at home in north-west London, says his office
Altaf Hussain mourns the death of a colleague in 2010: Scotland Yard says officers are searching an address in London. Photograph: MQM party/EPA
Altaf Hussain
 and  in Lahore
Altaf Hussain, the controversial leader of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has been arrested at his home in London, according to his office in Edgware.
Scotland Yard did not name Hussain but said a 60-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of money laundering. The arrest took place at an address in north-west London, it said, adding that officers were searching the property.
Scotland Yard said it was taking the suspect to a pre-arranged hospital appointment. "The man has an existing medical condition. He will remain in the custody of officers throughout."
Hussain is the chief of the MQM, Karachi's most powerful political party. He in effect runs the Pakistani megacity by remote control from his home 4,000 miles away.
The MQM represents the interests of Pakistan's Muhajirs, the Urdu-speaking descendants of Muslims who moved from India to Pakistan during partition in 1947. It has been a key, but frequently troublesome, coalition partner to successive Pakistani governments.
A British citizen, Hussain has lived in exile in the UK since 1991. News of his arrest led to an immediate lockdown in Karachi, with shops and businesses in the city and other parts of Sindh province closing and streets gridlocked as people tried to get home. The British high commission in Karachi also shut temporarily.
An MQM spokesman denied Hussain had been arrested. "Scotland Yard came. They asked a few questions. They have been coming for the last three years," he said. "It was a routine question-and-answer thing." Hussain was not in custody but at his home, he added.
Blair: 'Dangerous To Ignore' EU Election Results

Monday 02 June 2014

Sky News HDhe former PM warns the victories of parties like UKIP "cannot be ignored" as he urges Europe to "reconnect" with people.

Tony Blair has warned Europe it would be "complacent and dangerous" if it fails to reform itself following a surge by anti-immigration and eurosceptic parties.
He warned UKIP's victory in the UK and that of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front in France was a "wake-up call" on the need for change and "cannot be ignored".
Voters last month dramatically altered the make-up of the European Parliament by increasing the number of MEPs from the populist, eurosceptic Right.
In a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in London, the former British prime minister said: "The victories of UKIP in the UK and the National Front in France and the election of parties across the continent on explicitly 'anti-the-status-quo in Europe' platforms signify something. They cannot be ignored.
"The election results matter. They are a wake-up call to Europe and to Britain. Our response in Europe, as in Britain, should be to lead, not follow."
He went on: "So when some European politicians say that despite the showing of the far-right nonetheless there is still a majority for a pro-Europe position, that is true, but it is also complacent and dangerous."

David Cameron talks with Jean-Claude Juncker
David Cameron and Jean-Claude Juncker at a budget meeting in 2012

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to overhaul Britain's relationship with Europe.
Mr Blair also appeared to criticise Mr Cameron's plans for a renegotiation and in-out referendum on Europe by 2017 and said "a new approach" should involve "minimum treaty change".
He called on pro-Europeans to "make the debate more than about the repatriation of certain competencies and rules".
Mr Blair said: "The moment is right for Europe to think carefully about where it goes from here, and how it reconnects with the concerns of its citizens and how it changes in order better to realise its ideals in a changing world.
"It has to be a debate elevated to a Europe-wide level, with Britain playing a leading role, not just a negotiation of Britain's terms of membership.
"It has to be about what is good for Europe as well as what is good for Britain."
The intervention came with Mr Cameron embroiled in a row over who should take over as the next president of the European Commission.
He has reportedly said Britain could quit the EU if Jean-Claude Juncker - the former leader of Luxembourg who the Prime Minister sees as a symbol of Europe's past - is elected.
According to German publication Der Spiegel, he is reported to have said: "A figure from the 1980s cannot resolve the problems of the next five years."

Three Turkish engineers, NATO soldier die in Afghanistan attacks

 June 2-Tuesday, June 3
 Three Turkish civil engineers, at least two Afghan police officers and one foreign soldier were killed Monday in separate attacks in Afghanistan as Taliban insurgents issued a warning against participation in the second round of presidential voting, slated for June 14.
The engineers were traveling in a car when a suicide bomber rammed into it with a motorcycle rigged with explosives in eastern Nangahar province, near the border with Pakistan, the Interior Ministry said. It said one other Turkish engineer and an Afghan were injured.
The Turks worked for a construction firm and were building a base for the Afghan police.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, said he could not immediately assert or deny responsibility for the attack, which coincided with renewed violence since the radical Islamist movement announced thelaunch of its spring offensive last month.
The foreign soldier, a member of the U.S.-led international coalition, which includes NATO forces, was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said. It did not identify the service member or provide details of the attack or its exact location.
The two Afghan police officers died during a clash with insurgents who stormed a district headquarters in southern Helmand province, officials said.
Another Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the assailants included suicide bombers. He asserted that “dozens” of police officers were killed during the fighting, which he said lasted several hours.
The attacks came less than two weeks before a runoff election to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who was barred from running for reelection because of term limits. The Taliban staged scores of relativelysmall-scale attacks during the first round of voting on April 5, but voters in many parts of the country were not deterred from participating in what has been described as the first peaceful transfer of power in Afghan history.
Ahmadi, the Taliban spokesman, vowed Monday that the insurgents would sabotage the runoff and warned people against voting in it.
“We would urge people to refrain from taking part in this sham election,” he said. “We will target polling centers and election offices with whatever means we have.”
The runoff pits former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, who won a plurality of the vote in April, against Ashraf Ghani, a former finance minister who finished second.

World's biggest cyber crime gang thwarted by police

Channel 4 NewsMONDAY 02 JUNE 2014
Exclusive: behind the scenes as police across the world hit a notorious group of cyber criminals responsible for hacking into computers, stealing up to half a billion pounds and blackmailing victims.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Sexual Violence in Conflict: Sri Lanka - rape, sexual assault and forced prostitution in military-run IDP camps

 02 June 2014
Next week, the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict is due to take place in London, co-hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary, William Hague and the Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie. 


Way Forward Can Be Through Revamped PSC


By Jehan Perera -June 2, 2014 
Jehan Perera
Jehan Perera
Colombo TelegraphThe outcome of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a let down to the Sri Lankan government.  There was a general expectation in Sri Lanka, fueled by the optimism of government leaders that a new era of relations would open up when the President of Sri Lanka met the new Prime Minister of India.  In particular there was the hope that the vexatious international pressure on the government to proceed with a political solution on the basis of the devolution of power to the Tamil-majority areas of the country would subside. But this did not happen.  On the contrary, Prime Minister Modi was uncommonly blunt and precise in calling on his Sri Lankan counterpart to begin delivering on his oft-repeated promise to the international community of a political solution that goes beyond the 13th Amendment.
It was believed that because both President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Modi come from nationalist traditions, there would be a meeting of hearts and minds and that they would understand and empathise with each other as they were thought to be on the same wavelength.  The Sri Lankan government was hoping that Prime Minister Modi’s nationalist inclinations would make him focus on economic ties with Sri Lanka rather than on minority rights.  This might have been possible if the two leaders were not from neighbouring countries, where the actions of one spilled over into the other country.  For instance there could be a meeting of minds between the leaders of Sri Lanka and Russia where it concerns dealing with separatist insurgencies.  Both countries ended up dealing with their separatists with military force and finally succeeded in crushing them.
Inasmuch as President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s nationalism is in relation to Sri Lanka, so would the Indian Prime Minister’s nationalism be in relation to India’s national interest.
Inasmuch as President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s nationalism is in relation to Sri Lanka, so would the Indian Prime Minister’s nationalism be in relation to India’s national interest.
However, there is less reason to believe that two nationalisms that are next door to each other could cooperate.   Those who are nationalists tend to look at issues from the perspective of their own countries and the interests of those they deem to be their own.  It is generally universalists or liberals who think of the larger picture and the wellbeing of all that transcends their own nationality. The boycott of the swearing in ceremony by the main political leaders of Tamil Nadu state and the emotional reaction in Tamil Nadu over the invitation extended to the Sri Lankan president would have sent a message to the Indian policymakers that the issue of Sri Lanka has to be handled carefully.  Inasmuch as President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s nationalism is in relation to Sri Lanka, so would the Indian Prime Minister’s nationalism be in relation to India’s national interest.
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Sri Lanka: War remembrance, reconciliation and non-violent resistance

POST 02 JUNE 2014
BY NIRMANUSAN BALASUNDARAM
May 2014 marked the 5th year of the brutal end of the armed conflict in the island of Sri Lanka. The foremost stakeholders of the final phase of the war, the Tamil nation, the Sinhala nation and the international community seem to have different interpretations of the disturbing developments, unfolding since the last phase of the war.