Comments on: Ridicule and reality: SCOPP, War and Peace in Sri Lanka

By: free to speak

free to speak — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:52:21 +0000

“Like the LTTE, SCOPP has a tendency to make sweeping and dismissive statements about highly respected individuals and organizations.”

please point me to some of these statements by the LTTE

By: punitham

punitham — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:06:40 +0000

contd….
ultimately, it’s the Sinhalese masses that can decide who these ‘politicians’ are.

By: punitham

punitham — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:23:24 +0000

What do the conscientious policemen and other Sri Lankans say to what SCOPP Chief said at the UNHRC ninth session(September 2008) about ”technical assistance for police” as part of Action Plan following UPR (after the dismissal of Sri Lanka from the UNHRC) as though our police force was of inferior quality perniciously hiding the fact that it is the politicians who prevent the police from being professional? This damage control exercise shouldn’t be ignored any more. A few years ago the British FCO/DfID/MoD implemented a programme of educating the Sri Lankan Army on Human Rights but allowing such a programme in is to hide the fact they don’t practice international norms of human rights not because they don’t know about human rights but because they are forced to follow the politicians’ guidelines. If we wish to solve our problem this sort of damage control exercise of five decades should come to an end.

By: punitham

punitham — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:28:49 +0000

What Sri Lanka(SCOPP chief) has been telling the UNHRC on Universal Periodic Review in the last few months alone tells us how the damage control exercise is being expertly carried out and the world is being fooled while the sixty-year destruction of the socio-economic-environmental fabric of Northeast is perniciously continued under the cloak of war-on-terror.

By: Ajith

Ajith — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:01:48 +0000

Same people who argues for the freedom of media wants to criticize another media outlet? Double standards!?
Isn’t the author doing the very thing he is accusing the SCOPP of doing through this article? Critisism? You are alarmed at the SCOPP because of what you think is vilification of NGOs and you are writing an article to counter that. So when the government publishes an article to defend a nation that is being vilified, understand they have the right and the urge they would feel! Thank you.

By: punitham

punitham — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:25:28 +0000

SCOPP complements the damage control exercise of the last 4/5 decades by successive Sri Lankan governments at the UN.

By: Foxhound

Foxhound — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:59:21 +0000

Well that’s a pretty common tactic. When you lose… just ridicule the victor. The best defence, ignore the ridicule.

I suppose its all about maintaining appearances which is enough to do a lot of things.