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In Asia Group, Sri Lanka Says Stands Behind Silva, Group Letter Not Agreed To

A diplomat told Inner City Press it was "outrageous," that the Sri Lankan Mission was allowed to prohibit the press from covering the February 22 meeting in 380 Madison Avenue.

(UNITED NATIONS) - Two days after Sri Lankan General Shavendra Silva was ruled "inappropriate" to participate as the Asia-Pacific Group's representative on the UN Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations, the Asia Group met Friday behind closed doors about the controversy.

For four weeks, Inner City Press has questioned the UN Secretariat of Ban Ki-moon and diplomats from Asian countries how they could accept Silva as adviser on peacekeeping...

Asia Times- Russia Wises Up... Good News for Syria

Warmongers may be crying in their soup if Russia says, Нет - 'Nyet'.

(SALEM) - If present trends continue, Russia will bring a voice of reason to the countries rallying for military action against Syria.

That, according to a brand new article in Asia Times, which yanks the facade from the western version of the story, shining a light into the cracks and crevices hiding true motives of geo-positioning for war.

Former South African President`s Visit Should Not Be Celebrated

Mandela later connected members of de Klerk's ministry, at the very least contiguously, to attacks.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The Wholistic Peace Institute is hosting a visit of the last apartheid president of South Africa, F. W. de Klerk, to our city.

President de Klerk was presented the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and is thus deemed a spokesperson of world peace by the Institute.

Rajapaksa Secretly inaugurated China Project in Jaffna

As reported earlier by TamilNet, the genocidal Colombo not only seals off Eezham Tamils from Tamil Nadu, but also effectively checks Indian ambitions there with proxy Chinese projects.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened a renovated hospital and a swimming pool earlier this month.

Both projects were criticised by local media, over the diversion of funds intended to reconstruct schools in Vanni.

Israeli Forces Storm Al Aqsa Plaza in Violent Clashes with Worshippers

Tens of thousands in Palestine and around the world abhor the actions by the extremists.

(JERUSALEM / SALEM) - Violent clashes took place Friday between Palestinian worshippers, Jewish settlers and Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) troops who stormed the ancient al Aqsa Mosque plazas just after the noon prayers.

The ongoing threat by extremist Jewish groups to "take" the al Aqsa Mosque has caused a reverberation around the globe.

Is Holocaust II (Shorthand for Another Great Turning Against the Jews) Inevitable?

Israelis should be afraid of their leaders, not Iran.

(LONDON) - The Gentile me believes this question needs to be addressed because there is a very real danger that the rising, global tide of anti-Israelism.

This is being provoked by Israel’s terrifying arrogance of power and sickening self-righteousness, will be transformed into anti-Semitism unless two things happen.

As Silva Barred from Advising UN, Wallstrom Says It`s Right, Ban Takes Note

The UN's Margot Wallstrom said there "should be consequences" for "atrocities."

(UNITED NATIONS) - For 26 days, Inner City Press asked the UN how they could accept Major General Shavendra Silva as a member of the UN "Senior Advisory Group on Peacekeeping Operations" when he was named in connection with war crimes.

On the afternoon of February 22, Silva was told by the Group's chair Louise Frechette that his participation is "not appropriate."

THE ARAB SPRING: A Year that Changed the World

On Friday, February 24th, at 9:00AM, Noam Chomsky joins hosts Wael Elasady and Will Seaman to discuss the shifting political landscape of the Middle East.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The events of the Arab Spring have been awesome and inspiring, opening up the possibility of a regional landscape that is almost unfathomably different from what would have been predicted just one year ago.

Students United For Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER, of Portland State University) has organized a wide-ranging conference that is designed to analyze the events of the Arab Spring.

Sri Lanka and the UN: Unslayable Ghosts

Sri Lanka and the West head for a showdown over human rights.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - BURY the past. Those killed nearly three years ago in the last, savage days of Sri Lanka’s civil war will never return. Foreign and local critics who harp on about horrors are doing down a fragile country.

“Any sensible person will realise the advantage our people got. Today there is no more killing, fighting. It is peaceful, people are free,” argues Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Norway Backs UN Resolution Against Sri Lanka

The UN is expected to demand a long-term plan for how Tamils and Singhalese can live in peace on the island nation.

(OSLO, Norway) - Norway has joined other nations in calling for an investigation into civilian deaths in the country’s long and bloody civil war.

The UN resolution wants answers to questions about, among other things, what happened to the thousands killed in the last months of the war.