UK Foreign Minister – Boris Johnson referred to Africans as “watermelon smiles” The blond red-faced bombastic rabble rouser is back again on the international news-scene. I am talking about Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, who aspired to become UK prime minister before he changed his mind. Boris was appointed the […]
“The Fate that Hangs”: 2015 Elections in Myanmar
Introduction – Myanmar in brief The Republic of the Union of Myanmar or Myanmar (historically known as Burma), is a unitary presidential constitutional republic under its 2008 constitution. Historically, Burma has been under the rule of many dynasties. Originally, Burma was colonised by British and it came under the British raj in 1937. Till then […]
Argentina: Diplomatic Conflict With United Kingdom Over Falklands
Written by Natán Calzolari and Translated by Eleanor Staniforth Argentina has been claiming sovereignty of the Falkland Islands since 1833, the year in which they were occupied by the United Kingdom. In 1982, the Falklands War [1] broke out, lasting two and a half months and claiming the lives of 907 people: 649 Argentine soldiers, 255 British […]
SRI LANKA – ALLEGED CONFLICT OF INTERESTS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISE NSA MENON’S AND UN NAMBIAR’S ROLE
SRI LANKA – ALLEGED CONFLICT OF INTERESTS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISE NSA MENON’S AND UN NAMBIAR’S ROLES? Though NSA Menon hyped up that the recent visit to Colombo of a high powered team was primarily to find a political solution to the Tamil problem, but the hidden agenda for both Delhi and Colombo was to hijack […]
SRI LANKA – ALLEGED CONFLICT OF INTERESTS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISE NSA MENON’S AND UN NAMBIAR’S ROLE
SRI LANKA – ALLEGED CONFLICT OF INTERESTS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISE NSA MENON’S AND UN NAMBIAR’S ROLES? Though NSA Menon hyped up that the recent visit to Colombo of a high powered team was primarily to find a political solution to the Tamil problem, but the hidden agenda for both Delhi and Colombo was to hijack […]
SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES
SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES Sri Lanka’s (SL) bluff and bluster that paid lavish dividends in the past failed for the first time when the UN Secretary General Ban (with the full US support) appointed experts to his proposed panel on SL’s war crimes. Predictably the Rajapakse regime’s reaction is openly […]