Not likely with this trend:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/85007346/A-List-of-Commissions-of-Inquiry-and-Committees-Appointed-by-the-Government-of-Sri-Lanka-2006-%E2%80%93-2012

A List of Commissions of Inquiry and Committees Appointed by the Government of Sri Lanka (2006 – 2012)

Dear nathan;

Considering the way of things happening under the guidance, direction and patronage of the “Ex-Allies” your post indicates that there is a justifiable reason to believe that Hitler too was misinterpreted and there is a worthwhile cause to revisit him.

Thanks!

And Hitler said, “Why are these hypocrites criticizing me? Look at what they do in the colonies!”

And the rest is history.

Zero last year. 8000 this year. 40000 next?

And if you didn’t agree with my comment, it would not be sensible? I have seen enough comments against me on this and other blogs to understand that support has nothing to do with sense.

Dear David Blacker,

“Dayan, regardless where the resolution is coming from, the LLRC was set up by the GoSL, and therefore its recommendations shouldn’t require external pressure to be implemented by the very government that called for a recommendation.”

Absolutely; I am not one of those Tamils who recklessly denounced the LLRC report though I had no faith that it would be meaningful during its tenure. I now recognise it’s significant and how it can help paving a way forward to forge a meaningful reconciliation.

Notwithstanding the importance of the LLRC and also it was sanctioned by the very regime that is dragging its feet; the overriding aspect in support of the implementation of its recommendations should be that, it is the right thing to do. This is what the people like Dr D.J has been asking for, for years. It should not be viewed as egocentric that it is a defeat at the hands of the Tamil Diasporas. In reality, if all the recommendations have been meaningfully implemented, the Tamil Diasporas lose their platform.

“We already know what it feels like to be powerless. It lasted all the way up to 2009.”

It is rather a cheap point to make! The Tamils were powerless too during the LTTE time. You should recognise the role of the Sinhala Buddhist Chauvinists within the MR regime and how it is acting recklessly damaging the vision that you appear to ‘ostensibly’ aspire to achieve!

Not implementing any of the LLRC’s recommendations seems like a is a perfect self-inflicted wound that even Sri Lanka’s friends will be unable to explain away.

Wahoo! Amazing proposition and a timely admonition indeed! Something sensible I read from Mr. David Blacker after very long time. It’s a simple fact many among us ignore or fail to realize. Thanks, Nithy!

If we do not like parts of the resolution, what we should be doing is participating in the drafting of such a resolution in partnership with the US, thereby arriving at a resolution that most will accept. That is if the GoSL is willing to accept a resolution that solely recommends an implementation of the LLRC report. Is it? To me it looks like it won’t even accept that, and I find that unacceptable.

Right now, we’re in a jam over the US fuel sanctions on Iran, and we need a possible exemption from it, and it hardly seems the moment to be antagonizing the US, given that we cannot ignore the fuel import ban the way India is doing, since we will lose the US garment market.