Two unusually tall and bearded men were part of Sri Lanka’s mainstream narrative this past week though for widely and wildly different reasons. Read more

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Posted by Sutirtho Patranobis on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged al-Qaeda, Bangladesh, Colombo, FBI, Islamabad, LTTE, Osama Bin Laden, Rabindranath Tagore, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, US, V Prabhakaran
Most haven’t read the report though it’s now available on the internet. But at least some people I met this past week were curious about the three experts report to the United Nations (UN) on Sri Lanka’s human rights accountability during the final phase of the civil war. Read more

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Posted by Sutirtho Patranobis on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Ban KI-moon, China, Colombo, immigration, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Mervyn Silva, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger leader, UN, United Nations, Wimal Weerawansa