Here’s Bob Carr’s REAL take on Sri Lanka:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-27/carr-rules-out-sri-lanka-chogm-boycott/4654954

The bit on Sri Lanka starts 6 minutes 30 seconds into this interview.

Clearly, every effort needs to be made to stop Sri Lankans engaging people smugglers and heading for Australia. And clearly if we did what Bruce Haigh seems to want us to do, it would lead directly to a massive escalation of this.

The CHOGM meeting will be an excellent opportunity to address the push factors right in the heart of that country. It should definitely NOT be boycotted.

Ludwig, there are no people smugglers, the Sri Lankans sail themselves and the only time they act in any way covertly is when they get out of Sri Lanka and that has nothing at all to do with us.

How is your brain actually wired Ludwig? Do you see humans or the lies told by the pollies?

The Lankan government has self-inflicted a loss in status in the eyes of international community (exception Bob Carr) by the way the civil war was brought to an end. In a recent British Parliament session the Deputy PM Nick Clegg (in answering question from Lib-Dem colleague Simon Hughes) referred to Lankan government suppression of press freedom, politically motivated trials, assaults on lawyers, despicable human rights violations. They say that it is possible to wake a sleeping person but not a person who is pretending to be sleeping. Bob Carr has his eyes closed. Is he sleeping? Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed that his soldiers carried a book on human rights in one hand and a book on Buddhism in the other. Not even his five-star sycophants believed him but Bob does! As soon as the war ended, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa claimed in the Defence Ministry Website that not a single civilian was killed during the last weeks of the war. Bob believes him! The Lankan High Commissioner in Australia Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe claims that 300 000 Tamils were "rescued" by Lankan soldiers. This is a well rehearsed Goebellian line. Thisara does not mention that thousands of civilians were killed. Bob believes Thisara. Surely Australians will not fall for Bob Carr claim that Sri Lanka is a five-star democracy.

''Mali and Sri Lanka regressed from flawed democracies to hybrid regimes’’ - Democracy index 2012: Democracy at a standstill, A report (2013) from The Economist Intelligence Unit

Sri Lanka’s Authoritarian Turn: The Need for International Action, International Crisis Group, 20 February 2013

UN was ordered out before the final bombing and shelling of the last eight months up to May 2009. In the last four years the ''rescued'' people have been denied help from willing aid agents and put under the boots of the army.
Mass atrocities of 65 yrs continue unabated:

Can Bob Carr make Sri Lankan Prez release the reports he's withholding from the public:
A List of Commissions of Inquiry and Committees Appointed by the Government of Sri Lanka (2006 – 2012), 12 March 2012, http://www.scribd.com/doc/85007346/A-List-of-Commissions-of-Inquiry-and-Committees-Appointed-by-the-Government-of-Sri-Lanka-2006-%E2%80%93-2012

What is the duty of fellow members of intergovernmental organisations (UN and the Commonwealth)?

Will Australians accept this:

''Conflict-affected areas remain highly militarised, which has made progress towards achieving durable solutions more difficult. The military has become an important economic player and a key competitor of local people including returnees in the areas of agriculture, fishing, trade, and tourism. It has also been involved in areas that would normally come under civilian administration. It continues to occupy private land, thereby impeding IDPs’ return. The government has failed to make durable solutions a priority, and humanitarian organisations have faced funding shortages and restrictions on programming and access'' – Sri Lanka: A hidden displacement crisis, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 31 October 2012

‘’The government has a free hand to dispense with minorities as it wishes and to feed the President’s vanity. Thus the modern Rs. 2,900m facilities at Jaffna Hospital by Japan’s JICA for the people of Jaffna – not the President – and completed in October, is idling for Rajapaksa to open it on Pongal day as Douglas’ invitee in a vainglorious circus. He ultimately decided not to come and the costly facility continues unused. The doctors struggle without facilities and are under pressure for the allegedly high death rates. The people may lose the services of 10 specialists who returned from the UK to serve and are subject to army harassment, assaults and anonymous threats.’’ - Naked Power, Suppressed Dissent, A New Innings, 19 January 2013, http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/naked-power-suppressed-dissent-a-new-innings/