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 […]
Australia Day – A Day to Remember
January 26 – A date to diarise, a date to celebrate, a date to remember. It’s Australia Day and it is a great time to show off the Aussie colours (green and gold) and to hoist the Australian flag. Sizzling barbecues are common around the nation as we celebrate the public holiday (since 1994, […]
On the myth of black savages with an uncontrollable appetite for sex and violence
‘Is it that blacks are simply more culturally or genetically prone to rape than other ethnic groups? That answer is obviously “Yes”.’ This is according to one Greg Kay, in the article titled “EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RAPE [SOUTH AFRICA].” Is the myth of black people as savages with an uncontrollable sexual appetite, a sorry stereotype perpetuated […]
US envoy cites ethnic cleansing in Kenya
The top US envoy to Africa called the violence in Kenya “ethnic cleansing” and said on Wednesday Washington was reviewing its hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the country. Jendayi Frazer said neither President Mwai Kibaki nor his chief rival, opposition leader Raila Odinga, is doing enough to stop the bloodshed that has […]