THE UNHRC – THE LAST REFUGE FOR EELAM TAMILS! SRI LANKA‘s CHOGM MEMBERSHIP? The much awaited UNHRC September 2011 sessions began recently with the Eelam Tamils expectantly looking forward to some tangible progress in addressing the excesses of the genocide trauma that the Rajapakses inflicted on them. Unlike in the Colombo/Delhi pressured May 2009 […]
In Pakistan, Bin Laden’s Death Transforms Local Coffee House
Written by Sasa Milosevic The death of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has benefited not only the United States and its President Barack Obama, but also some of the city’s local business owners. Coffity, a local coffee house, turned into the second hottest place in town overnight, the first one being the house […]
Police Hunt Serbian Facebook Misogynists
Serbian daily ‘Kurir’ alarmed the police, requesting adequate legal action against Facebook group ‘Death to Women’ The Serbian Public Prosecutor, in cooperation with the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, conducted an investigation into the case of a Serbian Facebook group “Death to Women“ (”Smrt ženama”), which was propagating hatred towards women. According to the […]
The inevitability of war crimes proceedings – Delhi trio implicated?
An anti-Tamil crusader and ardent apologist for the Sinhalese, Hariharan fails in his attempts to cast doubts on the authenticity of the execution video. (‘Some comments on the Execution Video’) That the video slipped through the elaborate Sinhalese iron curtain painfully put in place to prevent even a trickle of incriminating war crimes evidence […]
Albright slams US handling of Georgian crisis
President Dmitry Medvedev warned Sunday that Russia was ready to retaliate against sanctions, on the eve of an EU summit called to address the conflict in Georgia. In an interview to Russian television, Medvedev said he considered sanctions to be a last resort and argued that such measures need to be encoded in law. “If […]
Did Kosovo Set Precedent for South Ossetia?
Posted by Sinisa Boljanovic to Global Voices Online See Global Voices special coverage page on the South Ossetia crisis. When Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on February 17, 2008 governments around the world were divided about the legitimacy of such an act. As of today, 45 out of 192 sovereign United Nations member states have formally […]