US welcomes release of Balendra Jeyakumari
The U.S. is welcoming the release by Sri Lanka’s new government of a rights activist arrested a year ago for demanding information about people who went missing during the country’s decades-long civil war.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki Thursday Balendran Jeyakumari was among eight detainees freed this week. She has been released on bail pending trial.
That is seen as a goodwill gesture by the new government toward the country’s estranged ethnic Tamil minority. Psaki called it a positive step toward ensuring human rights for all Sri Lankans.
Jeyakumari was arrested last March, accused of sheltering a man trying to revive the Tamil Tiger rebel group which suffered a crushing military defeat in 2009. Rights groups, however, said the arrest was an attempt to silence activists.
(AP)
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yes why not! Release the tigers and their sympathizers and regret it later on. Funny how these stupid politicians have forgotten how muck pain and suffering the people of Sri Lanka went through for decades.
Now it is clear. The world’s so-called migtiest power wants a revival of terrorism in Sri Lanka.
The release woman wa accused of sheltering a man who was sent from domiciled Tamils in France to revive terrorism.
If an Ameriacn citizen harbours a Muslim who wants to spread ISIL philosophy in the US, what will the CIA do? Stand aside and clap their hands?
If the US Security finds someone harbouring a ISIL sympathiser, the person, his family, friends and associates will all be vanquished wihn days.
This young fellow who is accused of bombing the Boston marathon, where is his family? Where are his friends? All gone mate.
The Citizens of Sri Lanka are living in difficult times. The saviour of the nation has been defeated. Those who supported the saviour are under threat.
The spirit of Veluppillai Prbaharam is on the rise, again, thanks to yahapalanaya.
How about US showing some examples by stopping the hounding of Julian Asange and Edward Snowden. They were not terrorists, they were just journalists who talked about USA’s corrupt and unjust work around the world. So rather than explaining your answers to those allegations, why do you hound those journalists?
Also can you also release the terrorist “suspects” held at Gunatanamo bay on bail, similar to what Sri Lanka did on this terrorist suspect.
Double standards and hypocracy is a symptom of serious illness in the brain.