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		<title>Will HRW and AI charge the US for war crimes ?</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=377</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 23:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[9th May 2009 -9th May 2009 -Will HRW and AI charge the US for war crimes. A probe confirms deaths due to American airstrikes in Afghanistan: Afghan officials have estimated up to 147 people died in the battle in the western province of Farah on Monday.Saudi Arabia's leading newspaper The Arab News Said in an editorial, "stop killing and start caring about ordinary Afghans. Slaughtering them and then apologizing is contemptible." Aren't civilians everywhere considered equal? Will Human Rights Watch based in NY and Amnesty International based in London crucify us Americans for this? What about war crimes? (Hope we get a free pass!) ]]></description>
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		<title>A possible  Commando Operation,   and the doctored reports by the Amnesty International.</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=374</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[19 April 2009 -By Charles.S.Perera -The Amnesty International the most incompetent and most interfering of Organisations  says that  the  official two-day ceasefire in Sri Lanka which ended on Wednesday has not helped to end the suffering of around 100,000 civilians trapped in the conflict zone.  It does not seem to  understand that  it was not due to any  fault of the government. It was the terrorists who would not allow the Civilians to budge.  

And this incompetent Organisations which has done nothing to ameliorate the situation in Gaza, Palestine, Iraq , Afghanistan, Burma or  Pakistan, tries to make out that the suffering of the 100,000 civilians( wrong figures) , trapped in the conflict Zone is the fault of the Government because the 48 hour ceasefire was not long enough.  
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		<title>AI Have you got any brains ?  Open letter to AI</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=371</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[18 April 2009 -From Ben Silva UK -Media reports indicate that you want a ceasefire in Sri Lanka. 

The UN reports that Tamil Tiger fighters killed six civilians trying to flee the conflict zone. Evidence indicate that LTTE will kill any one that is trying to leave and they will force civilians to fight against their will. LTTE have planted booby traps and mines to prevent civilians escape their grip. 

Have you thought of asking LTTE to surrender ? If they do, then there would be an automatic ceasefire. Is it too much for your tiny brain  to think ?
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		<title>London MPs again on the rampage</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=367</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, 12 April 2009 -Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -With my adoration of things British, I had always thought of British Parliamentarians as splendid creatures. And I suppose they are, in a way, in that the latest set of effusions puts any exaggerations our Parliamentarians can manage in the shade. Of course the poor creatures are suffering from that well known disease of Parliamentarians, the need to hang on to one’s seat, and some British Labour MPs have a heightened form of this, given the proximity of the next election and the current state of Labour in the polls. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tamil Protestors Breathing Life in to the LTTE , Not To The Civilians</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=362</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 19:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[12th April 2009  - Dr. Chandrani Gunaratna -The latest tactic of the LTTE is to scream that hundreds of civilians are killed daily by the Army shelling, a charge that Sri Lankan army vehemently denies.Certain humanitarian organizations and news agencies citing the so called government health officials, who, while shells are falling within few meters of them, provide daily phone updates on civilian casualties in the no-fire zone, have given credibility to the LTTE's misinformation campaign which is geared to agitate the international community including officials of Western governments against the Sri Lankan government.

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		<title>An Amnesty for the Tigers</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=360</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, 08 April 2009 -Rajiva Wijesinha  Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -Amnesty International, with pertinacity worthy of the LTTE, has once more returned to the charge against the Sri Lankan government. As usual it begins its diatribe with affirming its principled balance between an elected government and terrorists, between legitimate armed forces who do not attack civilians and terrorists who do this as a matter of principle, between those who are seeking to free the trapped people Amnesty purports to care about and those who are entrapping them.]]></description>
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		<title>Ceasefire would not help save the  civilians</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=357</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 March 2009-By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island  -The EU, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and six US Senators have called for a cease-fire to the conflict in Sri Lanka. A cease-fire is expected to provide an opportunity to evacuate the civilians held hostage as a human shield by the LTTE. Since this suggestion has originated from responsible sources with authority, it is necessary to explore whether a cease-fire would in fact save the civilians give the particularities of the context, namely, that they are being held hostage for the specific purpose of providing protection as a "human shield" for the LTTE. 
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		<title>BBC, Aid Agencies and Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=354</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, 17 March 2009-Dr. P.A.Samaraweera -The activities of the Aid Agencies have been closely investigated by other countries as well. An extreme case is Sudan, where last week the Aid workers from the International Rescue Committee, Oxfam and Amnesty International were taken to task and asked to cease functioning. Thus the credibility of these organisations has been eroded due to their dual role in developing countries.]]></description>
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		<title>SCOPP Secretary General responds at UN dialogue on Displaced Persons</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=350</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, 16 March 2009 -Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General of the Peace Secretariat and Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights -I am grateful myself, Mr President, since though I was complaining earlier about having to stay on, in a cold and comfortless Geneva, the independent Sri Lankan press reported yesterday that the Peace Secretariat is amongst the targets of the 25 or so LTTE suicide cadres that have infiltrated the capital. It is therefore a relief to linger here to deal with the verbal pyrotechnics of Amnesty International et al, rather than face the real thing.Mr President, Amnesty International at least had the courtesy to have a discussion with us, and I am sorry that the countries of the European Union which raised queries turned down our invitation to discuss issues of concern]]></description>
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		<title>Amnesty International bombs South Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.ai-watch.net/blogs/?p=346</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 13 March 2009-Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Secretary General, Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process -Amnesty may well believe Tissainayagam to be innocent, but since it has not been suggested over the last couple of decades that the Sri Lankan judicial system is not independent, it should surely leave this decision to the courts. If it believes the Sri Lankan court system is not fair, it should say so. Amnesty could also urge for a swift trial, but it should bear in mind that the delays in this case are not exceptional. Finally, since there are clear charges issued, it is absurd that Amnesty should claim that 'statements by senior governments (sic) have indicated that the main reason for his arrest is because of his writing in the Sunday Times newspaper'. Amnesty International's resident Cluster Bomb Specialist Jim McDonald has gone on another of his shooting sprees. Over the weekend he sent out releases targeting both the Sri Lankan and the Pakistani governments.]]></description>
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