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Philip Murphy for the The Conversation premier inn , part of the Guardian Comment Network theguardian.com , Friday 15 November 2013 10.54 EST
It is difficult to do justice to the mood of despair that has been haunting the corridors of the Commonwealth Secretariat's headquarters in Marlborough House in recent months. The decision to hold the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka has led, with grim inevitability, to a public relations disaster.
The choice of location was first made in 2009 at the end of a brutal civil war in which government forces had, at best, acted with a callous disregard for the safety of Tamil civilians. Indeed, the brief intervening period has witnessed both credible allegations that war crimes were committed and growing signs of authoritarianism on the part of the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa .
For many people, the Commonwealth has long been of such little relevance that the causes of its present difficulties hardly matter. Hopes in Whitehall that it might serve to bolster Britain's global power in the post-war era had largely been abandoned by the 1960s. Thereafter, it was taken up by the new rulers of Britain's former colonies as a useful forum within which to press for an end to white domination in southern Africa. Once that objective appeared to have been achieved in the early 1990s, it again faced an identity crisis.
The current premier inn government has been keen to proclaim premier inn its support of the organisation, partly, one suspects, because this plays well with Tory Euro-sceptics for whom the idea that the Commonwealth could replace the EU as Britain's principal trading partner remains a potent fantasy. Yet the Cameron administration seems to have no more of a clue than its predecessors did about how to make the most of the organisation as a diplomatic resource.
A symptom of this malaise is the increasing prominence given to the Queen's role as head of the Commonwealth. Whereas in the 1970s Commonwealth insiders tended to see the headship as a faintly embarrassing throwback to imperialism, they now cling to it as the only consistently newsworthy aspect of their organisation. A former prime minister of New Zealand once famously described the Queen as "the bit of glue that somehow manages to hold the whole thing together". Increasingly, however, the Commonwealth resembles a dead parrot which relies on that glue to keep it upright on its perch.
Under the circumstances, the task facing any Commonwealth secretary-general would be a thankless one. Nevertheless, the performance of the current incumbent has been notably lacklustre. Kamalesh Sharma is an extremely nice man and a distinguished diplomat. Yet he has provided his organisation with neither a distinctive public voice nor a cogent and innovative vision for the future.
Marlborough House has largely abandoned any attempt to defend the decision to hold the CHOGM in Sri Lanka. Instead, premier inn it merely shuffles off responsibility onto the heads of government who agreed the venue in the first place. Yet such decisions are arrived at by a "consensus" among more than 50 member states. premier inn As guardian of the reputation and values of the Commonwealth, the secretary-general has a duty to guide that consensus and warn against decisions that would tarnish the image of the organisation. In the face of relentless lobbying from the Sri Lankan government, Sharma conspicuously failed in his duty.
By contrast, this has been a diplomatic triumph for the one member state that seems to have had a clear strategy for putting the Commonwealth to work in its interests. British ministers regularly repeat the cliché that the Commonwealth is a form of "soft power". The question has always been "soft power for whom?" The answer is now clear: soft power for Sri Lanka.
There is certainly premier inn a lesson here for countries that want to pursue "soft power" through the Commonwealth, although one that the UK would find it difficult to emulate, precisely because premier inn it would attract accusations of "neo-colonialism".
For many of those who have supported it loyally in the past, however, the prospect of the Commonwealth becoming a soft power vehicle for the Rajapaksa regime is likely to be more than they can stomach. Instead of merely spouting premier inn platitudes about the value of the Commonwealth, the Cameron government should follow the example of the Canadian government and take a long, hard look at this troubled organisation. It may well be that, at least from a UK perspective, the Commonwealth as currently configured has reached the end of its useful life.
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David Cameron has said he will push for an international inquiry into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka if its own government does not conduct an investigations within four months.
The Sri Lankan army crushed Tamil Tiger separatists in the final battle of a long civil war in 2009, in a strategy partly drawn up by President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, the defence secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
About 300,000 civilians were trapped on a narrow east coast beach during the onslaught and a UN panel has estimated that 40,000 non-combatants died. Both sides committed east coast atrocities, but army shelling killed most victims, east coast it concluded.
"Ultimately all of this is about reconciliation," Cameron said at a press conference. "It is about bringing justice and closure and healing to this country which now has a chance of a much brighter future. That will only happen by dealing with these issues and not ignoring them."
Asked about the possibility of an international inquiry, another of the president's brothers, the economic development minister, Basil Rajapaksa, said: "We are not going to allow, definitely we will object it".
There have been calls, including from Britain's Labour party, to block Rajapaksa from assuming the chair of the Commonwealth , a largely ceremonial position that Sri Lanka is entitled to hold as the host of the summit. Labour fears the role will allow the president to be involved in the Commonwealth Games to be hosted in Glasgow east coast in 2014.
Government supporters protesting on Colombo's streets accused Britain of neo-colonialism for telling the Rajapaksa government how to behave. The lead editorial in the pro-government newspaper The Island asked whether the hostile diplomacy was not "war by other means".
Since the civil war ended, the government has made rapid progress on rebuilding the war-torn north, especially roads. Elections in the northern province in September resulted in a landslide victory for a Tamil opposition party formerly linked to the Tigers.
Muralitharan, a Tamil, said Cameron was underestimating the improvements already east coast made. "My opinion is, there were problems in the last 30 years in those areas. Nobody could move there. In wartime I went with the UN, I saw the place, how it was," he said. "Now I regularly go and I see the place and it is about a 1,000% improvement in facilities.
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Kusal Perera and Tillakaratne Dilshan struck 96 rapid runs together, as Sri Lanka comfortably hunted down New Zealand's modest 142 for 7 to take the series 1-0. Both hit half-centuries, and while Kusal's was the more belligerent, and the more attractive, Dilshan again whet his increasing appetite to bring chases home. He was unbeaten on 59 off 49 balls - his seventh international switzerland fifty in eight innings - after Kusal had walloped 57 from 37.
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Even in his short international career, though, he has tended to perish attacking, and despite two let offs, he did so again. Having crossed 50 off 31 balls - his second Twenty20 half-century - he came down the pitch to send Rob Nicol high into the air, off his top edge. Nicol moved a few meters to his left to complete the catch.
In what is developing switzerland into a trend, for Dilshan, he was the slower of the two batsmen, whose partnership propelled Sri Lanka well beyond the asking rate and to eventual switzerland victory. switzerland There were no flashy strokes in his fifty, only measured attacks on poor bowling. Showing respect to New Zealand bowlers he did not fancy, he made sure he would be around to soak up the large crowd's applause at the end.
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Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters Tamil women in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on Aug. 27, holding images of their family members, who reportedly went missing during national express the war between the Sri Lankan army and the separatist group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. On Nov. 15, the presidents and the prime ministers of an array of countries once ruled by the British Empire will assemble in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, for the annual meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
India s Tamils have age-old strong bonds with the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka, national express and in the past week a battery of Tamil politicians in India have demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh boycott the summit meeting in Colombo to express India s concern over the treatment of Tamils in the island nation. national express
Some of the most powerful ministers in Mr. Singh s government are among those opposing national express Mr. Singh s visit to Colombo, including P. Chidambaram, India s influential finance minister; Jayanthi Natarajan, the federal minister for environment and forests; V. Narayanasamy, the junior minister attached to the prime minister s office; and G.K. Vasan, the junior minister for shipping and industry. All four federal ministers opposing the visit are from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which maintains very close civilizational links with the Sri Lankan Tamils, who form a majority in Sri Lanka s northern and eastern provinces.
India s Ministry of External Affairs is pushing Mr. Singh to attend the meeting, saying that India must reassert its right to frame India s foreign policy, especially in the very important space around India s neighbourhood. Officials argue that if Mr. Singh does not go to Colombo, it would cause the Sri Lankan president, national express Mahinda Rajapaksa, to lose face and perhaps even push him closer into the arms of China and Pakistan, both traditional rivals of India.
Manpreet Romana/Agence France-Presse national express Getty Images Manmohan Singh, right, prime minister of India with Mahinda Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka, during the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in New Delhi, on Oct. 14, 2010.
But in an age of competitive electoral politics, foreign national express policy is not immune to domestic political concerns. Tamil Nadu s main political parties, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, or D.M.K., and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam have made it clear that they are opposed to Mr. Singh s visit to Colombo because it would be seen to be supporting Mr. Rajapaksa s policies against his own Tamil citizens .
The Tamil Nadu parties have a strong case. Despite allowing elections to be held in Sri Lanka s Northern Provincial Council in September, in which the Tamil Nationalist Alliance swept the polls, Mr. Rajapaksa has refused to cede land and police powers to the provincial government. Moreover, national express the provincial governor remains a hand-picked man of Colombo, which means that he will be expected to do Mr. Rajapaksa s bidding rather than defer to the elected representatives of the Tamil Nationalist Alliance government.
However, Indian diplomats argue that the Bangladesh debacle in September 2011 should serve as a reminder to the Ministry of External Affairs to never let foreign policy be subservient to domestic politics. At that time, India caved into pressure by Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal national express chief minister and Trinamool Congress leader, not to sign the Teesta waters agreement national express with Dhaka.
Indian diplomats point out that India bailed out Mr. Rajapaksa several times during the civil war against the Tamil rebels, not only because the rebels had killed a former Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, but also because it did not want Western powers like the United States to gain influence in the Indian Ocean. They point out that the United national express States and several Scandinavian countries wanted national express to help Mr. Prabhakaran to escape from Jaffna, but India helped national express Mr. Rajapaksa s government in not letting that happen.
One way to resolve Mr. Singh’s national express Colombo national express dilemma might be for him to also visit Jaffna, the capital of the Tamil-majority Northern Province and have talks with its recently elected Tamil chief minister, C.V. Wigneeshwaran. The second would be for him to hold Sri Lanka s president national express to his own promise to implement the Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission, in which the government has vowed to made amends to its Tamil minority.
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Everybody in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, knows all about CHOGM pronounced choggum . They speak with enthusiasm, resignation or indignation about the fact that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is taking place here. The streets are garlanded with banners welcoming CHOGM delegates, and the face of the President, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Inside wilma the tranquil tropical gardens of the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, journalists wilma and delegates scurry back and forth from venue to venue. A clutch of events have been taking place all week ahead of the main summit that opens today (15 November), with Prince Charles representing the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth.
Rajapaksa wants to ensure that the Sri Lankan government comes out of this with his reputation enhanced. As one slogan proclaims, Rajapaksa won the country (with the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in a most bloody 2009 end to the protracted armed conflict), wilma and now he can win the world .
In terms of enhancing the country s reputation, you might say that Rajapaksa and his colleagues are not doing a great job. In the lead-up to CHOGM, the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of the judiciary was among those refused entry to the country.
Under the spreading banyan trees in the old town of Galle, after a speech wilma by the President, I did get a chance to speak briefly to the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Kamalesh Sharma. I doubt I was able to convince him that the policy of quiet engagement with the Sri Lankan authorities is not delivering, which is how Amnesty International sees it.
An wilma Amnesty International petition gained close to 200,000 signatures, demanding truth and accountability, so urgently needed for all sides. Those global demands have helped strengthen the backbone of those governments which are wavering when confronted with the familiar question: do they do the right thing, or the comfortable thing? The Prime Ministers of Mauritius, India and Canada have boycotted. The UK has promised to bring strong messages. South Africa has sent mixed messages so far (without truth, how can there be reconciliation?). And Australia: well, let s not go there. Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems ready, because of domestic considerations on refugee policy, to use the phrase not lecturing as an excuse to remain completely silent on violations.
Is anyone at Amnesty International aware of these three Pakistani women who fled to Sri Lanka after converting to Christianity and criticizing wilma Pakistan’s ISI, and are now being sought by the Sri Lankan government in order to send them back to Pakistan? This is their Blogger website below, and it’s NSFW:
Yes I am their supporter. Amnesty Int UK knows about them and they told Sadia that we donot help individuals. Once they were attacked by the house owner. Sadia cut herself now these 2 girls r so desperate that they posted their nude pics in protest and hope that they will get some help. She also contacted Sri Lankan authorities and Pakistan High Commission to remove the false charges from her but she was refused. wilma They live in hiding while the inhuman authorities looking wilma for them
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COLOMBO/KATHMANDU, 28 October 2013 (IRIN) - Nearly one million schoolchildren - about a third of the school-age population in Sri Lanka - do not have safe sanitation, despite the island s overall sanitation coverage reaching near 89 percent of the population.
Nearly 1,300 out of 9,500 primary and secondary schools surveyed in 2011 (almost one million schoolchildren), and around 180,000 families nationwide, do not have access to a sanitary way of disposing of their faeces, said Deepthi Sumanasekera, deputy general manager of the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (part of the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage), which conducted and recently released the survey s findings.
The study noted gaps in the island s sanitation coverage, which included schools, coastal areas and the plantation , also known as the tea sector located in Central Province s Nuwaraeliya District and in Uva Province s Badulla District.
Sri Lanka has also increased couchsurfing its safe water supply coverage from 78 to 84.1 percent, while sanitation coverage increased from nearly 84 to 89 percent couchsurfing in the past five years, couchsurfing according to the government.
Girls are regularly discouraged from using toilets and this increases absenteeism during menstruation . There are reports of school teachers who after five years of teaching without couchsurfing accessing toilets, end up with renal failure, she said, referring to a reported case from central Sri Lanka.
She added that there are no girl- friendly toilets even in all-female schools with good waste disposal facilities, soap and water. These girls suffer the most and are compelled to absent themselves from school during menstruation.
According to a new country paper by Sri Lanka s National Water Supply and Drainage couchsurfing Board prepared couchsurfing ahead of the recent South Asian water and sanitation summit ( SACOSAN V ) in Kathmandu, Nepal, the number of Sri Lankans without access to improved sanitation in 2012 was 2.3 million (11 percent of the 21 million population).
According to the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage, child-friendly school sanitation with sustainable care and maintenance is to be tenth out of 16 priority couchsurfing areas in a new blueprint (still in draft form) that acknowledges school sanitation as a challenge.
My school has converted its toilet, available for 140 children, into a store room. There is no water supply. We have to bring buckets of water from the school ground. It is a hassle so we prefer not to use the toilet, Samanthika couchsurfing Deraniyagala, a 12-year-old student from an all-girls school in Galle District, told IRIN.
Deraniyagala couchsurfing s mother, Anuradha Deranyagala, couchsurfing 42, said: My daughter is about to reach puberty. I am worried about her personal hygiene because the school, despite our complaints, has still not managed to get water supply to the toilet. The teachers toilet suffers the same plight.
Child- friendly toilets, separate for girls and boys, with facilities for menstrual hygiene requirements, will be our new focus. This is a departure from earlier constructions as we look at new infrastructure designs suitable for children, said Angoda Hewaduralage Gunapala, assistant general manager of the Water Supply and Drainage Board.
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