What you are saying is misleading the Missus. The UN, the US, the UK and NGOs were pretty clear about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Its pretty bad.

I don't get what your problem is with India and Indians anyway. But getting back to Barns's article I think he has a point.

Lucy
Prove it. They were not even there because of their grandstanding. However the evidence they do have is fine. The reports of the EU and also US is far more damning of the Tamils and in respect to the Sri Lankan government questions are only directed to battle tactics in the last breath of war, not with civilians. Chargesare even mild compared to with what we could charge oursleves with in relation to Iraq etc. PLEASE RESEARCH. Not hard at all. Why be so bigoted against a country when you are so lazy? No wonder we always go to wars we should not have even contemplated, lazy minded people waiting for direction fromm the US.

Do we ever learn?

I've read the news reports nd the UN stuff. What you are saying isn't balanced or true.
So you prove it :-)

Double Standards. Greg Barns you give us once again a true set of questions that mirrors our weakness and selective value we place on another's life. Oh for a world that could embrace our shared humanity as a resource rather than a constant threat.

As if war, the show of armed forced cooperation is the lead to peace. Unfinished business, since the first and second world war is all I can see with this ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Clumsy heat and displacement of some over others rather than celebrating the opportunity and offering full scale provision for a world secruity through the act of working for economic - political and a socio-historical need for real Peace.

The Hypocrisy and Solution is in Israels Hands. The meddling of Palestines elections as well as the Israeli government's armed forces ought be held accountable for crimes against humanity. For the degradation, the continued "acts that deprive Palestinians in the Gaza Strip of their means of subsistence, employment, housing and water, that deny their freedom of movement and their right to leave and enter their own country, that limit their rights to access a court of law and an effective remedy".

We do nothing but aid the violence as this article points out with our blind acceptance of this situation. Imagine how bright the future could be and the example we could set to other nations everywhere i.e. including China on Human Rights, if our faith in Law and Democracy were as true as the symbolic notions we place on our world national flag.

'How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation, and Hope are Reshaping the World'!

http://www.amazon.com/Geopolitics-Emotion-Cultures-Humiliation-Reshaping/dp/0385523769

Please take a look, this book by Dominique Moisi is a easy read.

http://www.miacat.com/

Listen up all you bloggers.
Have you had the recent Govt blog that Forum et al Internet blog sites are being censored. I've had it flash across my screen many times and I am the leat vitriolic and incapable of sedition...but does my Govt see me in that light. Time to start crawling?
BIG BROTHER is alive and well
Readers and bloggers BEWARE.

socratease ..... ( do I get my cup of hemlock? when??)