The wrong use of human rights
Human Rights Watch’s Charu Lata Hogg’s latest
claims of “thorough and contemporary reporting” to describe her
report on Sri Lanka, is a disrespectful attempt to mislead the
member states of the United Nations, whom she hopes to convince by
repeatedly including unsubstantiated allegations and wild assertions
as serious reporting.
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Rhymes of the ancient narrator
On a late-summer weekend in Paris, Michael
Ondaatje is speaking intently about inner demons. Since lives are
“dangerous and brief”, he says, “any writer is using art to protect
themselves - to give order to what seems chaotic. You shape your
demons if you can”.
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