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SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES

| Politics, World

  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 […]

SRI LANKA CHALLENGES UN/US/DELHI OVER WAR CRIMES MOVES

| Politics, World

  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 […]

CREDIBILITY OF UN’s SRI LANKA WAR CRIMES INITIATIVES

| Politics, World

  CREDIBILITY OF UN’s SRI LANKA WAR CRIMES INITIATIVES To the despairing victims of the Sri Lankan (SL genocide, the UN caving in to the bluff and  bluster of the SL regime invites a tragedy of historic proportions. Besides encouraging SL to  launch the next phase of its genocide with impunity to totally annihilate Tamil […]

Is crime in the UK an endless matter?

| Opinion, World

WHAT IS CRIME? There is no clear and unambiguous answer to that question. Defining crime is simply not easy for it usually raises more questions than answers. Social Scientists say that it is a socially constructed act. However, there are at two important definitions which we should consider — the legal and the normative definitions […]

Goldman Sachs Passion Play Misses The True Crime

| Opinion, Politics

While the entire even minimally politically aware citizenry of the United States is on overdrive due to the far-reaching events of this past week with respect to the war zone conditions that are more than apparent in the border states and particularly Arizona over the illegal immigration situation, with those on the East Coast per a […]

New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes

| US

    Donnell Herrington (Credit: Chandra McCormick & Keith Calhoun)   Television news reports are casting new light on the violence that flourished in New Orleans in the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The reports — broadcast Thursday by WTAE TV in Pittsburgh and WDSU in New Orleans — focus on two unsolved crimes: the near-fatal shooting […]