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Chinese firm wins contract for Sri Lanka wind and solar energy projects near Tamil Nadu coast - Indian Express
The Sunday Times report said that India had lodged a strong protest with the Sri Lankan government on the contract to the Chinese company days before the Sri Lankan government cancelled the contract for the Eastern Container Terminal.

A CHINESE company has won a contract to set up hybrid wind and solar energy projects on three Sri Lankan islands off the northern Jaffna peninsula 45 km from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu.

The Sri Lankan weekly Sunday Times reported that the US $12 million project was awarded to Sinosar-Etechwin, and will be implemented as a joint venture with the state-owned Ceylon Electricity Board as part of the Sri Lankan government’s Supporting Electricity Supply Reliability Improvement Project.

Etechwin is a subsidiary of the Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind.

The Sunday Times report said that India had lodged a strong protest with the Sri Lankan government on the contract to the Chinese company days before the Sri Lankan government cancelled the contract for the Eastern Container Terminal.

There was no immediate comment from the Ministry of External Affairs. Sri Lankan sources said the contract had been awarded after inviting international bids and the Indian bid was not competitive.

Asian Development Bank will fund the project, which will come up on Delft, Nainativu and Analativu, three islands in the Palk Strait off Jaffna peninsula. Delft, the largest of the three islands, is the closest to Rameswaram, which lies to the island’s south west.

Between the two is Kachchativu, the tiny island that India ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974. The waters around these islands are an area of contest and rivalry between Tamil Nadu and Jaffna fishers. The matter has been on the bilateral agenda for decades.
Etechwin makes solar-wind integrated power generation systems.

The contract to Sinosar/Etechwin was approved by the Cabinet Standing Committee on Procurement on July 18, before Sri Lanka’s cancellation of the tripartite agreement with India and Japan on the development and operation of the Eastern Container Terminal at Colombo Port.
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Would not have been possible during LTTE days.
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Philip wrote:Would not have been possible during LTTE days.
Enough of talking to the goats.

India should simply take back and immediately re occupy kachchativu island, reclaim some land around it, build a small advanced landing ground type of Naval facility and listening post and partol the area vigorously citing security concerns due to the cheeni presence in the area.

The SL sinhala are up to no good and the hans have put them up to it.

First and foremost, regulate all trade strictly according to agreed quotas and cool off on the $1Billion line of credit because cheeni maal will find its way into India after "value addition" in SL.

gradually cool off on the visas to India and tighten up the bilateral tourist traffic.

and quietly discourage direct container traffic transshipments from SL ports to/from any Indian port citing security issues due the chinese presense in SL ports.

That's one way to dampen the goats' ardour for the hans when they take a direct hit to the batwa from India.
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SL is also a hotbed of Paki Islamist activity targeting South India. Very easy for terrorists to sneak in or smuggle in drugs and weapons.
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“We are always committed to ensuring that they live with equality, justice, peace, and dignity” - PM Modi
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These are words we've been saying from RG days! He was bold enough to take onthe LTTE and corral them, held elections in the N-East, which quisling Weepy Singh treacherously gave away for nothing in return. The gallant IPKF had to return ignominiously without any welcome. Weepy's name can be added to the list of infamous individuals who sold their kingdoms and the country out.

We now have to prepare for the worst scenario, a huge de-facto
Chinko presence on the island poised to strike at India's soft underbelly. Like the PRC, the GOI must beef up the IN massively so that we totally dominate the IOR, neutralise any threat from SL and are capable of even taking the fight to the ICS .

Latest outrage,the SL rent-boy-in-chief,the GOAT,is to sell off 21 valuable tea estates to China! Earlier India had offeted to buy SL tea at a fixed price,rejected as SL tea might lose its shine as " Ceylon Tea",but never was the sale of estates envisioned. The Rajapakse familia is now selling off the entire country to the PRC bit by bit and allowing China to dominate areas of the island where Lankan Tamils predominate with a view to muzzling their legitimate political rights by the godless,racist ,anti-Indian Chinkos and their leader Xitler.
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Audacity of the Terror of the Tamils,Butcher by the Bay, aka the GOAT, asking India to support it at the UNHCR meeting in Geneva
against charges that SL committed gross human rights violations in the ethnic war,especially its final stages. This after he shafted India yet again by cancelling the Colombo port terminal involving funding from India and Japan,whilst awarding several projects to the Chins.

He now wants cancellation of the Trinco Oil Tank Farm lease to IOC and there is strong suspicion that the WW2 oil tank farm is going to be leased to the PRC! I said a few years ago that the Chinko intention is to use SL as a vast energy logistic hub,storing huge qtys. of ME oil and shipping it by tankers or by an UW pipeline to Burma where it already has plans in the offing for a pipeline to Burma from Chinland.This way the PRC would by-pass the Straits of Malacca, gravely complicating our own energy security with a naval foothold in the N-East of SL operating out of islands off Jaffna to Trinco which would reduce our capability of checkmating China in the Indian Ocean. SL is fast becoming another colony of Chinland.

The GOI and our MEA Muppets should NOT bat for the GOAT and SL at Geneva but pursue the human rights cause and demand that the GOAT and his butchers be issued an intl. red alert for their arrest and be put on trial at the Hague like Milosevic. There should be no safe country for the Rajapakse familia and their cronies to go to. India has to teach the GOAT a diplomatic thrashing before a military one.
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Justice has failed Sri Lanka civil war victims: UNHCR
Efforts to ensure justice for victims have failed, Michelle Bachelet says while introducing her report on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council.

Twelve years after the end of armed conflict in Sri Lanka, domestic efforts to ensure justice for victims have failed, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.

Introducing her report on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council, Bachelet said the effect of the conflict on thousands of survivors from all communities was devastating.

“Despite commitments made in 2015, the current government, like its predecessor, has failed to pursue genuine truth-seeking or accountability processes,” she said.

“The impact on thousands of survivors, from all communities, is devastating. Moreover, the systems, structures, policies and personnel that gave rise to such grave violations in the past remain – and have recently been reinforced.”

The decades-long civil war between the Sri Lankan security forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers ended nearly 12 years ago in 2009.

The war killed about 100,000 people, including up to 40,000 Tamil civilians killed by the Sri Lankan forces in the final onslaught, a charge the government denies.

UN reports have accused Sri Lankan troops of shelling hospitals and indiscriminate aerial bombardments, executing surrendering rebels and causing the disappearance of thousands of minority Tamils.

Bachelet said the independence of the judiciary and other accountability bodies has been “deeply eroded” following a recent constitutional amendment and accused the Sri Lankan government of blocking the possibility of genuine progress to end impunity.

“The independence of the judiciary, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, the National Police Commission and other key bodies has been deeply eroded by the recently adopted 20th Constitutional Amendment,” Bachelet said.

“The growing militarisation of key civilian functions is encroaching on democratic governance. The continued failure to implement comprehensive reforms – or to vet personnel – leaves in place security and military officers who have been implicated in alleged grave crimes and violations.”

She said longstanding, structural and systemic issues persisted in Sri Lanka and warned there were “clear warning signs that past patterns of violations could be repeated”.

A UNHCR report last month said the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reversed some advances made under previous administrations in protecting human rights in the country.

Surveillance of rights activists and dissidents has increased and a climate of self-censorship has emerged, it said.

Rajapaksa won the 2019 presidential election on a nationalist agenda which included a promise that troops who crushed the Tamil rebels would not be prosecuted.

Rajapaksa was the top defence official when government forces crushed the rebel fighters in a military campaign that ended in May 2009. His brother Mahinda was president then and is currently the prime minister.

On Tuesday, Sri Lanka urged the UN Human Rights Council to reject a forthcoming resolution voicing “serious concern” over the “deteriorating” rights situation in the country.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told the council the resolution was a “political move” and part of an “unprecedented propaganda campaign” against Sri Lanka.

The United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Malawi, Montenegro and North Macedonia have submitted a draft resolution for consideration by the 47-member council next month.
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Philip wrote:Audacity of the Terror of the Tamils,Butcher by the Bay, aka the GOAT, asking India to support it at the UNHCR meeting in Geneva
against charges that SL committed gross human rights violations in the ethnic war,especially its final stages. This after he shafted India yet again by cancelling the Colombo port terminal involving funding from India and Japan,whilst awarding several projects to the Chins.

He now wants cancellation of the Trinco Oil Tank Farm lease to IOC and there is strong suspicion that the WW2 oil tank farm is going to be leased to the PRC! I said a few years ago that the Chinko intention is to use SL as a vast energy logistic hub,storing huge qtys. of ME oil and shipping it by tankers or by an UW pipeline to Burma where it already has plans in the offing for a pipeline to Burma from Chinland.This way the PRC would by-pass the Straits of Malacca, gravely complicating our own energy security with a naval foothold in the N-East of SL operating out of islands off Jaffna to Trinco which would reduce our capability of checkmating China in the Indian Ocean. SL is fast becoming another colony of Chinland.

The GOI and our MEA Muppets should NOT bat for the GOAT and SL at Geneva but pursue the human rights cause and demand that the GOAT and his butchers be issued an intl. red alert for their arrest and be put on trial at the Hague like Milosevic. There should be no safe country for the Rajapakse familia and their cronies to go to. India has to teach the GOAT a diplomatic thrashing before a military one.
Philip ji,

Many thanks for this comment!

You are a realist and a pragmatic thinker!

I wish your foreign minister Mr. Jaishankar is of the same opinion as you are.
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After seeing Dimram has nothing to offer SL now gives India Japan an offer

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2021/03/02/col ... ias-adani/
Colombo Port West Terminal goes to India’s Adani
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chetak wrote:
Philip wrote:Would not have been possible during LTTE days.
Enough of talking to the goats.

India should simply take back and immediately re occupy kachchativu island,
we go in detail digging history of Aksai Hind when Galwan happened. Katchatheevu is our land, it belonged to last king of Ramanathapuram, but this simple fact dont resonate much in any place. :(
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Tuan wrote:
Philip wrote:Audacity of the Terror of the Tamils,Butcher by the Bay, aka the GOAT, asking India to support it at the UNHCR meeting in Geneva
against charges that SL committed gross human rights violations in the ethnic war,especially its final stages. This after he shafted India yet again by cancelling the Colombo port terminal involving funding from India and Japan,whilst awarding several projects to the Chins.

He now wants cancellation of the Trinco Oil Tank Farm lease to IOC and there is strong suspicion that the WW2 oil tank farm is going to be leased to the PRC! I said a few years ago that the Chinko intention is to use SL as a vast energy logistic hub,storing huge qtys. of ME oil and shipping it by tankers or by an UW pipeline to Burma where it already has plans in the offing for a pipeline to Burma from Chinland.This way the PRC would by-pass the Straits of Malacca, gravely complicating our own energy security with a naval foothold in the N-East of SL operating out of islands off Jaffna to Trinco which would reduce our capability of checkmating China in the Indian Ocean. SL is fast becoming another colony of Chinland.

The GOI and our MEA Muppets should NOT bat for the GOAT and SL at Geneva but pursue the human rights cause and demand that the GOAT and his butchers be issued an intl. red alert for their arrest and be put on trial at the Hague like Milosevic. There should be no safe country for the Rajapakse familia and their cronies to go to. India has to teach the GOAT a diplomatic thrashing before a military one.
Philip ji,

Many thanks for this comment!

You are a realist and a pragmatic thinker!

I wish your foreign minister Mr. Jaishankar is of the same opinion as you are.
all this did not stop India from helping these very guys to exterminate the ltte.

the sinhala politicos have always run rings around the Indian politicos, especially those morons from dilli.

though I do not support the dravidian guys, they are a lot more difficult to fool because of the eelam thread that binds them and that always puts them in opposing camps to the sinhala

we should have known that the oil storage tanks would be the hans key target.
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Arima wrote:
chetak wrote:
Enough of talking to the goats.

India should simply take back and immediately re occupy kachchativu island,
we go in detail digging history of Aksai Hind when Galwan happened. Katchatheevu is our land, it belonged to last king of Ramanathapuram, but this simple fact dont resonate much in any place. :(
I think that the transfer of katchatheevu has not been ratified by the Indian parliament.

we would be well justified in wresting it back, given the dicey security situation that the sinhala have wantonly put us in.

If the sinhala are cozying up to the hans, we should protect our own interests and establish a forward base there, even reclaiming some land around katchatheevu, if necessary.

the hans are doing in SL exactly what they did to us in ladakh and we should also do here to the hans what we did to them there.
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Chetak,
The UNHCR vote against SL will drive them closer and do nothing for Tamil in SL.

Top priority should be to wean SL from PRC
Second priority is safety of SL Tamil population.

Third is cutoff Pak terrorism from SL.

India should stop carrying Whiteman burden.
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There is lot of progress in Indian Ocean island states and India.
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ramana wrote:Chetak,
The UNHCR vote against SL will drive them closer and do nothing for Tamil in SL.

Top priority should be to wean SL from PRC
Second priority is safety of SL Tamil population.

Third is cutoff Pak terrorism from SL.

India should stop carrying Whiteman burden.
the only thing within our immediate and unilateral control is to take measures to protect ourselves as best we can while sending a message to both the sinhala and the hans

As for the rest, we have been attempting to do all of those mentioned above, for decades now, with practically nothing to show for it.

Since there doesn't seem to be much to show for it on the ground in TN, so maybe, we should give the tamil angle some rest for a bit.

we are being cleverly played by these guys both in TN as well as in SL.

Oil storage by the hans will happen, be it at hambanthotha or at trinco where srilanka will re-acquire 99 World War II-era oil storage tanks leased to the Indian Oil Corporation. The WW11 vintage tank farm was in really bad shape when we took it over but we were conned into doing it up and modernizing the facility because some illiterate MEA idiot tried thinking while he was firmly sitting on his upturned thumb.

when you continue to appease the sinhala and the SL tamils, the only loser in this poisonous game is India. we have nothing to gain from either of them while we become irrationally responsible for a situation not of our making, especially the myriad twists and turns post the ltte defeat.

the sinhala and the tamils see you, not as a favorite and a much loved and dependable uncle as most of us wrongly imagine, but as a senile old man with easy access to ready cash and whose only aim is to avoid being disliked so for them you are just an easy mark to be ripped off at will and also seen as foolishly willing to accommodate the most unreasonable of demands as long as they all pretend to like you.

Post ltte/eelam, there should have been a tangible quid pro quo agreement negotiated with both outfits, leading to a realizable and achievable time bound endgame, instead of the two bottomless pits that we ended up with and have been futilely pouring our aid in to. One is militant buddhist led and the other is militant xtian led. There is little scope or even elbow room here for India to manoeuvre.

weepy singh and his diplomatic shenanigans made sure that he damaged rajiv along with blemishing India

What chances we had, we callously let slip through our fingers because of political and strategic ineptitude during the heydays of the eelam. Exactly as we let slip the chicken neck resolution during the 1971 operations. With the beedis on the backfoot after the liberation war, we should have quietly purchased the land from them to widen the corridor when we had the unmistakable leverage then.

we will never be able to wean the sinhala away from the hans, not unless we want to out spend the hans which is what the sinhala are hoping against hope that we do. That is a course of action that will not materialize in many lifetimes because we simply cannot afford it so we need to corral and contain both the sinhala and the hans while dealing pragmatically with a situtation cleverly precipitated by the hans with the sly connivance of the sinhala.

so, if need be, simply throw SL under the genocide bus, just by merely keeping quiet. Then reboot relations with enforceable new parameters that are more India friendly and mindful of India's security considerations and trade. The sinhala jokers have nowhere else to go except downhill and squarely into the grasping embrace of the hans and the pakis, both of whom are eagerly beckoning them with the poisoned chalice.

So, net-net, we will either improve our position and open up more options or worst case scenario, we continue to remain where we were.

the very real danger is actually when the mafia comes back to power in India again and the BIF are in the saddle once more, politically wiser and more vengeful than ever before.
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ramana wrote:Chetak,
The UNHCR vote against SL will drive them closer and do nothing for Tamil in SL.
The top priority should be to wean SL from PRC.
The second priority is the safety of the SL Tamil population.
Third, is cutoff Pak terrorism from SL.
India should stop carrying Whiteman's burden.
Ramana Ji, just so you know, the UNHCR vote is just a whitewash. More than 10 nation-states were responsible for the atrocities committed during the last phase of the war, including the US and India. Particularly, the Manmohan Singh-led Congress Party wanted to finish off the LTTE with whatever cost than saving innocent Tamil civilians' lives. I understand that the LTTE had to be obliterated since they slowly became a greater threat to regional and global security and stability. According to the UN, 40,000 Tamils perished their lives as collateral during the war's last phase. I, therefore, don't know if justice will ever be served.
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Sri Lanka and China stand shoulder to shoulder at UNHRC

By P.K.Balachandran
Colombo, March 8: Following the unequivocal support extended by China to Sri Lanka on the Core Group’s draft resolution at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Sri Lanka questioned the reliability of the data in the report of the Special Rapporteur, Ahmed Shaheed, on the Uighur Muslims of China.

Sri Lanka’s representative C.A.Chandraprema strongly defended China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang province of China in the Interactive Dialogue on March 4.

Chandraprema said that Special Rapporteur Shaheed’s claims about discrimination against the Uighurs were based only on biased and sensational reporting in the Western media.

Problems facing the Muslims community in Sri Lanka received a brief reference in Shaheed’s report, specifically referring to mob attacks against Muslims in which the police appeared to be complicit. In reply to Shaheed, Chandraprema said that the Sri Lankan Constitution upholds the right to freedom of religion and denied violence and discrimination against Muslims following the Easter Sunday bombings in April 2019.

Focus On Defending China

Having said that Ambassador Chandraprema quickly switched focus to the UN Special Rapporteur’s findings on the treatment of the Uighurs in China’s Xingjiang province. He said Shaheed’s report on the Uighurs had quoted “various Western media outlets” that had made “various sensational claims” about issues encountered by the Muslims in China.

“We have serious concerns about the credibility of these sources. We note that the policy of freedom of religion has been fully implemented in the Xinxiang province,” he said.

In a broadside against Western countries, the Sri Lankan Envoy said: “Many Muslim countries have been destroyed in the past two decades in the guise of promoting democracy. However, Xinxiang has been at peace and has enjoyed democracy with the rest of China during this period.”

Shaheed had also been critical of the Indian Government in his Islamophobia report which drew a harsh response from New Delhi’s representative participating in the Interactive Dialogue. But the Lankan Ambassador did not make a reference to the allegations against India during his intervention.

Colombage Defends China

Sri Lanka’s Envoy’s remarks came in Beijing’s defense came in the wake of Foreign Secretary Adm. Prof. Jayanath Colambage’s assertion that he had “seen no evidence” to suggest genocide in Xinjiang.

The Foreign Secretary had called the Government of China “guardians” of the people of Xinjiang. Colambage’s interview was widely circulated in the form of a promotional video by the Chinese State media.

China Backed Lanka

China had earlier strongly backed Sri Lanka over the Core Group’s draft resolution on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and the war crimes charges against its armed forces.

Chinese envoy Chen Xu had said: “The proposed targeted sanctions contained in the OHCHR’s report are clear interference in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and exceed the mandate of the OHCHR. We hope that the HRC and the OHCHR will strictly follow impartiality, objectivity, non-selectivity and non-politicisation principles, respect the sovereignty and political independence of all nations, respect the efforts of the nations for the protection and promotion of human rights, advocate constructive dialogue and cooperation, and abandon the practice of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and exerting political pressure.”

UN View on Uighurs

Draft UN experts and activists claim that one million Muslim Uighurs are detained in camps in Xinjiang Province. Last week, UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet decried the ill-treatment of the community and demanded access into the region.

In February, the Dutch Parliament passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Muslim Uighur minority in China amounted to genocide, the first such move by a European country.

Chinese Envoy Reprimanded

During Thursday’s Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur, China was reprimanded by the Chair for using its time to launch a scathing attack on Shaheed. The Chinese Delegation said Shaheed had relied “only on BBC and New York Times” to slander and smear China.

The Special Rapporteur was “wantonly” spreading false information, the Chinese representative said, adding that Shaheed lacked “basic professional ethics and serves as a political tool for Western countries”.

The Chair said: “I would like to remind the speaker that I cannot allow derogatory or inflammatory remarks to be made against a special rapporteur. That is not allowed by the rules. No personal attacks should be made.”

Ahmed Shaheed’s Report

Introducing his damning report about Islamophobia world over at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, Shaheed said institutional suspicion and fear of Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have escalated to “epidemic proportions.”

The UN Special Rapporteur said that “numerous” States, regional and international bodies were to blame. In a report to the Council, he cited European surveys in 2018 and 2019 that showed that nearly four in 10 people held unfavourable views about Muslims.

In 2017, 30% of Americans viewed Muslims “in a negative light”, the Special Rapporteur added.
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XI is so far up the Lankan bunghole that they are probably spouting their falsehoods at the UNHRC in mandarin. As said before,past time to dust off some files from the '80s during the era of IG.It almost happened.
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srilanka to ban the burkha and also shut down hundreds of mosques.

the wokes will soon start their usual dirge and condemn both the lack of freedom and FOE


Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut many Islamic schools, minister says


March 13, 2021,


Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut many Islamic schools, minister says

Waruna Karunatilake

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country's minority Muslim population.

Minister for public security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference he had signed a paper on Friday for cabinet approval to ban the full face covering worn by some Muslim women on "national security" grounds.

"In our early days Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa," he said. "It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently. We are definitely going to ban it."

The wearing of the burqa in the majority-Buddhist nation was temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches and hotels by Islamic militants that killed more than 250.

Later that year, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, best known for crushing a decades-long insurgency in the north of the country as defence secretary, was elected president after promising a crackdown on extremism.

Rajapaksa is accused of widespread rights abuses during the war, charges he denies.

Weerasekera said the government plans to ban more than a thousand madrassa Islamic schools that he said were flouting national education policy.

"Nobody can open a school and teach whatever you want to the children," he said.

The government's moves on burqas and schools follow an order last year mandating the cremation of COVID-19 victims - against the wishes of Muslims, who bury their dead.

This ban was lifted earlier this year after criticism from the United States and international rights groups.
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Not at all. The outrage is selective, India is the beneficiary.

One needs an excursion into civilisational histories to understand why.
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UNHRC adopts resolution against Sri Lanka''s rights record

Geneva, Mar 23

The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday adopted a resolution ...

India was among 14 countries which abstained from voting.
effect of the TN elections onlee.

The BJP is playing safe
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Ethnic divide in Lanka to test Indian diplomacy


By Maj-Gen Ashok K Mehta (retd)
Effusive with optimism over a crucial vote against Sri Lanka on accountability over alleged human rights violations during the war on Tuesday at the UNHRC, Geneva, Foreign Secretary Jayanath Colombage said: ‘India has assured Sri Lanka of support’. Earlier he noted: ‘India cannot abandon us, we are immediate family’. In the seven UN resolutions on Sri Lanka since 2009, India voted in favour of the resolution in 2009, 2010 and 2012, and against it in 2013, while abstaining in 2014 which was welcomed by Sri Lanka. In 2015, India endorsed the US-Sri Lanka co-sponsored UNHRC resolution 30/1 from which Colombo withdrew last year with the return of Rajapaksas. On Tuesday, India abstained even as an overwhelming majority voted against Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has dragged its feet on reconciliation and accountability, vaulting from partial to full action to non-compliance. Equally, it has dithered on the implementation of the 13th Amendment, its position determined by the political clout of the government and India’s own political compulsions in Tamil Nadu. The West, led by the US and Europe, have imposed commercial and trade sanctions. While China and Russia have provided Colombo political cover, the West has been aggressively intrusive. India has acted in its national interest — either abstained from voting or supported resolution, and once voted against it.

A lot of water has flown down the Mahaweli river since. The Rajapaksa brothers are back with an unprecedented majority following the Easter Sunday bombing (2019), abolition of 19th Amendment and a likely new Constitution that could terminate the chequered 13th Amendment, putting paid to reconciliation with minority Tamils. Colombo is aware that provincial autonomy in the North within a united and indivisible Sri Lanka is a red line for New Delhi and tinkering with it is according to former President Maithripala Sirisena, ‘playing with fire’. China and Sinhala majoritarianism have emboldened the Rajapaksas to try and dare India.


Recent events — national anthem in Sinhala only, militarisation of the North, bulldozing the civilian war memorial at Jaffna University, pardon of Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake who killed eight Tamils, refusal to allow burial of Muslims till recently, cancellation of India-Japan joint venture for the Eastern Container Terminal in Colombo, offer of a solar project to China off Jaffna, plan to terminate the 35-year lease of Trincomalee Oil Tank Farms to India — are troubling. Still, the Rajapaksas have called India ‘the family’, the rest as ‘friends’ and elaborated its ‘India First’ foreign policy which was earlier reliance on New Delhi for security and Beijing for development.

It is against this background that India abstained from voting at Geneva. On March 14, President Rajapaksa had called Prime Minister Modi for India’s help to defeat the resolution with Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardene, speaking to his counterpart S Jaishankar earlier. But the most active solicitor of support was Colombage. On 13th Amendment, his views are in sync with the government, branding some Tamil leaders as leaning towards separatism. On January 15, senior Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R Sampanthan had said that Tamil parties had sought an international probe, including reference to the International Criminal Court, to investigate genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.


Last year, suddenly after five years, the Rajapaksas withdrew from UNHRC 30/1 under which it had agreed to time-bound investigation into the war crimes that took place during the war. The first draft (January 22) was damning and included ‘warnings of militarisation of new government (28 serving or retired or military or intelligence officials in key posts), reversal of important constitutional safeguards, political obstruction of accountability, exclusionary rhetoric and intimidation of civil society and use of anti-terrorism laws’. UNHRC’s Michelle Bachelet said the ‘present government was proactively obstructing investigations into past crimes to prevent accountability and that this has had a devastating effect on families seeking truth and justice’.

The second draft (February 19) called on Colombo to implement 30/1 from which it pulled out and two roll-on resolutions — 34/1 and 40/1. The present resolution goes back to an agreement at Kandy on May 26, 2009, between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Mahinda Rajapaksa.


The President appointed a Sri Lankan judge and a three-member presidential inquiry which produced a report called Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission of March 2012. While the government noted that human rights violations took place during the war, it declined to accept the report. In 2015, with a national government in place, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera accepted to host international judges in hybrid courts. But both President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickeremesinghe chickened out. Heads or tails, Sri Lanka refused to budge on allowing international investigations into alleged war crimes

The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation conundrum is essentially stuck around missing persons. These relate to the 13,784 people who had surrendered on May 19, 2009. Gotabaya had disclosed while he was campaigning for president, that they were subsequently rehabilitated, re-integrated and given employment. The 13,784 figure he used to reveal as Defence Secretary during the annual army seminars at Colombo after 2011 that I attended. But this figure is probably different from the number that actually surrendered. One month into office, President Rajapaksa told the UN Resident Coordinator in Colombo that ‘thousands who were reportedly missing were actually dead’. There are still hundreds of former LTTE cadres in jail without trial for more than 10 years.


India had pitched its case in a post-conflict Sri Lanka at the UN on two pillars — sovereignty of Sri Lanka and the rights of Tamils under 13A. This new strategic formulation for the first time equated the political aspirations of Tamils with recognising the territorial integrity of Sri Lanka drawn from the 1987 Indo-Lanka bilateral agreement which involved the sacrifice of 1,200 Indian soldiers who prevented the break-up of Sri Lanka. That above all and the active Indian assistance in defeating LTTE in 2009, overriding domestic Tamil politics, was the litmus test. Colombo and New Delhi must reconcile and realign on 13th Amendment without delay and move on.
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it would really be a very cold day in hell before anyone would pay credence to the views of a guy like ashok k mehta
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Sri Lanka proscribes 11 extremist organizations to prevent terrorism


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TNTJ and SDPI - is not less jihadi.
Hope GoI take control of the states with their presence and have a real purge. With SGs looking at other side , this cancer is spreading in couple of south states of TN and KL.
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It would be interesting to see, as what will happen if Sri Lanka's supreme court goes against the 99 year lease given to China for the Colombo Port.
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Do you really think Judges are free to make decesions anywhere in the world??
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The recent visit of the Chin Def. Min. has seen joint statements by both sides as to the " primacy" of their relations above all others,plus the GOSL shunning any attempt to join an anti- PRC grouping promoted by " outside forces".

The die is cast. SL must now be considered as another PRC colony and an ENEMY of India as long as the Rajapakse familia is in power. The PRC will now at breakneck speed colonise the island and establish permanent military and intel establishments in the Port City,H'tota and other locations . As I said,we may very well in the future fact our own " Cuban crisis" with thf island just z stone's throw away from our vulnerable southern underbelly at the mercy of Chin missiles,etc. We have to bite thf bullet and immediately draw up contingency plans on a war footing.beforr the Chon juggernaut in the IOR and in SL becomes both unstoppable and impossible to eradicate.
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The MV X-Press Pearl carrying hazardous cargo which sank off SL,was a brand new Chin vessel,commissioned only in Feb! Tch,tch, probably cheating by the Chin shipyard on specs,why it had poor firefighting eqpt. aboard and sank so swiftly.
This should teach the Chin catamite ,the GOAT,pres. of SL a signal lesson.He now has his Negombo and northern beach coastline ruined for tourism and fishing,and a clean up,if possible at all, that could cost easily hundreds of millions of greenbacks.Take another Chin loan GOAT! You will have to rent out our bunghole to Chin tourists and sell even more of your country to pay off your debts.Start learning mandarin soon.Once the Chins have their admin.- in-charge of the Port City, you can kiss your stinking backside and country goodbye!
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Also some reports mentioning chemical cargo picked up from Gujrat.
And couple of others report the ship was not allowed to dock in Gujrat???
So :
1. Chin built shit-tub
2. Chemical cargo
3. Port of origin of this chemical???
4. Where was it headed???
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And India sent ships for fire fighting and No Chin Wok for dousing the flames!!!
As the saying goes in Kannada : Kshatha Bandaga Venktaramana ( Meaning when in trouble seek God's help, here SL seeking Indian hand)
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Rsatchi wrote:And India sent ships for fire fighting and No Chin Wok for dousing the flames!!!
As the saying goes in Kannada : Kshatha Bandaga Venktaramana ( Meaning when in trouble seek God's help, here SL seeking Indian hand)
Hopefully at least Wion, Republic, etc. are running all these words in headlines. GoI's PR needs to be putting out the message too. Otherwise it's being turned into different propaganda all together.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/MVXPressPearl

Environmental disaster garb has overtaken with no mention of china. It's also worth noting that this could be intentional and Chinese can't be trusted. They could have caused this accident for all we know to divert resources and attention.
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Whenever SL is in deep sh*t they run to India, only to kick us in the backside when we want to invest in their infras,simply handing it over like servile to their Chin masters! If I was PM or FM ,I would've told the Lankan Chin backside-licker of a pres.,the GOAT, to go to Chinland and kiss XI's backside for relief. Refusing India time and time again over joint port development and handing over SL territory to XI .The riot act must be read out to SL.
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^
Very clear headed, concise and direct language by Philip. Without being gratuitous. Wish more Indians could express themselves like that.
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Indian companies, private and public, should also invest in, undertake projects in, train, educate, give technical consultancy, increase imports and exports, to Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans will know that India has a major stake in the island.
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Easter bombings: Sri Lanka probes charges against spy agencies

President orders investigation into allegations that some intelligence officials knew and met with people who carried out 2019 bombings.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/1 ... y-agencies

Now we have uncovered a can of worms in which there has not only been shameful abuse of power but a failure of the moral authority of the worst kind.

***Related: https://projectofive.ca/2020/05/25/spec ... operation/
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Arima wrote:
chetak wrote:
Enough of talking to the goats.

India should simply take back and immediately re occupy kachchativu island,
we go in detail digging history of Aksai Hind when Galwan happened. Katchatheevu is our land, it belonged to last king of Ramanathapuram, but this simple fact dont resonate much in any place. :(
Just imagine if China was in India's place , they would claim the whole of Sri Lanka based on this
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Sri Lankan Economy in Crisis. Debt to GDP ratio is 101 % which increased by 15% from 86% in just 2 years.

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