The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall arrive in Sri Lanka
Posted by Editor on November 14, 2013 - 4:46 pm
The Duke of Cornwall Sir Charles Philip Arthur George and the Duchess of Cornwall, Lady Camilla Parker Bowles, arrived in Sri Lanka a short while ago, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 at 4.00pm for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 beginning in Colombo.
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Welcome Sir! as long as you are not engaging in local politics.
Welcome Sir! as long as you are not engaging in local politics. Sri Lanka will treat you well and certainly will be much better than the treatment the SL president received in UK in 2010.
http://www.cherwell.org/news/2010/12/11/sri-lankans-slam-union
Thanks for coming to our lovely Island.
We are still using same train tracks and stations what you have built. Still same as old days.
We extended very few. Seems like we are still at the beginning. Long way to go.
What is in the blog 3. is quite true. I hope it is not a sarcastic remark. I was in Sri Lanka last month. Take a county anywhere else in the world that had a 30 years protracted war finished just 4 years ago. Compare the development that has happened in Sri Lanka with that. At least there are new trains running on old tracks now.
Observing what is currently being shown on the Channel 4 of the UK to insult Sri Lanka in every possible manner, what the people living in SL should remember is that towards the end of the WW II, when two atomic bombs were used to slaughter thousands of civilians in Japan in the pretext of ‘Ending the war to minimise the human suffering’ those who died did not have human rights. Only after the WW II when the US, UK and the other members of the club like Australia and Canada grab the power instead of the colonialism, they chased to use human rights to control the rest. Even after the WWII, the Vietnamese did not seem to have the right for human rights when they were bathed in napalm and agent orange. Which one of these saints stood up for human rights of civilians when JR jayawardena’s death squads were using Pajeros and people were disappearing and tyre pyres with bodies were burning in the middle of roads? Somebody tell me this: why the need to slaughter Tamil civilians at the end of the war when the entire world is watching? What is the objective? Where are the skeletons or mass graves of these 40,000 said to have killed? Where are the no-go areas in the North and East that may hiding the remaining of these 40,000 people?
What Sri lankans should understand is there are no human rights before countries become economically successful. It is a luxury that needs lot of wealth to maintain and safeguard. Let MR continue with his vision without wasting his time in office having to deal with stupid HR protests. There is a regular general election in SL people can vote him out of office if they do not like him. He has done more than anybody else did since 1948 and has a backbone.