AWAKENINGS

UN Resolution on War Crimes: The recently passed UN Human Rights Council Resolution on human rights violations in Sri Lanka was backed by 25 votes and 13 votes against and 8 countries absenting themselves from voting. This is the second time that the UNHRC had passed such a resolution against Sri Lanka. It is a fact that UN Panel in 2011 found that 40,000 Tamil civilians died in the final stages of fighting which is the indicator of Sri Lankan’s violation of human rights. It is a tragic truth that the resolution passed now has requested Colombo to conduct an independent and credible investigation of crimes allegedly committed by government forces against the minority Tamil community in the final 5 months of its quarter century old war against LTTE which ended in 2009. This is something like asking criminals to investigate their own actions and also to sit in judgment. Because of this strange situation created by one of the greatest apex international body, Amnesty In...

UPA 2 Mummed and Maimed by MM –meaning Mulayam and Mayavathi with the third M – meaning Mamata waiting to bat according to her whims and fancies and her political expediency which she likes to call it as acumen.  And 4 th M – viz. M. Karunanidhi pulling out from the UPA 2 government – but prudent enough to declare that ‘outside support to the government cannot be ruled out’ is struggling hard ‘how to handle the Sri Lankan issue in view of the students taking up the issues to the streets and Amma extending support by her positive steps by passing resolutions in the assembly even to the extent of advising central government to severe our diplomatic connections and to order polls for the Eelam Tamil State. Common Man is perplexed, puzzled and pondering over his fate – perhaps waiting to teach a lesson or two to these unprincipled parties whose aim is to be in power and to serve themselves – their kith and kin. Common Man should use his common sense at the t...