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Sri Lanka- No Hurry to Implement Recommendations of War Commission

The LLRC report contained several recommendations.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - Implementation of all the recommendations of a war commission appointed by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will not be rushed, a Sri Lankan envoy said on Sunday.

Their Ambassador to the United States said the government also stood strongly against a U.S. resolution to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva calling on the government to adopt the recommendations of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission.

Wikileaks Launches The Global Intelligence Files

WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoffs.

(NEW YORK) - Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor.

The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011.

Current Status of Wikileaks

The Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has repeatedly attacked WikiLeaks this week in a bizarre manner

(NEW YORK) - An extrajudicial blockade imposed by VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America, and Western Union that is designed to destroy WikiLeaks has been in place since December 2010.

The EU Commission is considering whether it will open a formal investigation, but two lawsuits have been filed.

SRI LANKA: A Tamil man of Indian origin Arrested, Tortured & Laid With Fabricated Charges

Salem-News.com Eye on the World Report.

(SAYDABAD, Bangladesh) - Police began arresting Tamil youths of Indian origin in the Ukuwela area during the summer of 2008, over mere suspicion due to their ethnicity and detained indefinitely.

One individual who was arrested, Navajeevan, was tortured by police officers who at times, hung him from the ceiling while severely beating the youth with poles.

Marie Colvin`s Conference Call Recording on White Flag Surrender Safe

Exclusive report from Sri Lanka Guardian...

(LONDON) - Marie Colvin, she is said to have preserved her notes and recording of telephone conversations including that of her conference call on her negotiations to get the senior LTTE men surrendered in May 2009.

Marie Colvin was murdered by the Syrian forces in their targeted bombing of the media hideout of the rebels.

Syrian Opponent Mamoun Al-Homsi`s Israel Connection

The Arab Digest had previously reported on Syrian Opposition member, Mamoun Al-Homsi, and his call for ethnic cleansing of minorities in Syria. Well, new questions emerge on his politics and suspicious ties with Israel.

(ROME) - Mamoun Al-Homsi is pictured above at the Prague Security Conference (NeoCon) with the Israeli-Italian right wing politician and hardline Zionist, Fiamma Nirenstein.

Nirenstein who is a neocon Zionist has spent much of her life in an illegal East Jerusalem Settlement called Gilo where she still maintains a home.

No-Fly List Used as Extrajudicial Punishment for Muslims

Earlier this month the Associated Press reported that the number on the no-fly list has jumped from 10,000 to more than 21,000 people who now cannot fly over United States airspace.

(WASHINGTON DC) - What if you left the United States for a short trip abroad, but when you tried to come home to your job, family and life in America, your government would not let you on the plane? What if, when you asked when you could fly home, you were told "never"?

For some American Muslims, this is not a hypothetical scenario but a brutal reality that destroys families, finances and careers.

`India Should Raise UN Report on Lanka Rights Violations`: CPI

D. Raja said the international community was shocked to witness such "war crimes and gross violations of human rights" committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka.

(DELHI, India) - The Communist Party of India on Saturday demanded that India should raise the issue of the United Nations report on the last phase of the civil war in Sri Lanka.

The conflict is a hotbed of allegations of human rights violations by the Army, during the meeting of UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva.

Tamil Businessman who was `White Vanned` in Colombo Remains Missing

Mr. Prabhakaran was earlier arrested by police on charges that he had links with the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - We reported earlier this month, that a Tamil businessman in Colombo, 42-year old Ramasamy Prabakaran, was seized in broad daylight by armed goons; 'white vanned'... in broad daylight in front of his wife and daughter.

The Times in India reported this week that Ramasamy Prabakaran, owner of “Panama Traders” an electronics store in Bambalapitiya, is still missing.

Journalist Colvin Killed Trying to Retrieve Shoes

Britain summoned Syria's ambassador to London on Wednesday to demand that Syrian authorities facilitate "immediate arrangements for the repatriation of the journalists' bodies,"

(BEIRUT NOW News) - American war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes so she could flee an army bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs, her employer The Sunday Times said.

Colvin and a group of other journalists had all followed the local custom of removing their footwear before entering a building in the besieged city which was being used as a rebel press center, it said.