British foreign office feeds Times false figures to recover from defeat at UNHRC

The article below was written in the middle of 2009, at the height of the campaign of disinformation conducted by the Times of London against the Sri Lankan government. After a period of quiet Jeremy Page has, to coincide with the April 2010 General Election, returned to the charge with a misleading article concerning what he claims are suspicions about plans to ‘settle thousands of Sinhalese across the north to undermine the Tamils’ claim to an ethnic homeland’. It may be worth therefore looking again at the manner in which the Times is fed information and its falsifying techniques. (Note, April 2010).

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On the importance of learning words

Mrs Lakshmi Jeganathan, who once claimed (and rightly so) that she taught me my ‘A, B, C’ (the letters pronounced with ‘correct’ enunciation of course), continues to teach me English, 41 years after I first attended her ‘Spoken English’ class somewhere off Charles Circus, Colombo 3. Her son, Pradeep, my brother’s classmate and a fellow member of our school’s junior chess team in 1978 and 1979, told me about four or five years ago that he’s amazed that those who were so terrorized by his very strict mother that they quit after a few years nevertheless sent their children to her (to be terrorized, he didn’t have to say).

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Darusman Report seeking to discriminate against Sri Lanka - Gomin Dayasri

Following are the excerpts of the interview:

At a time when Sri Lanka is engaged in bringing the country’s communities together through a process of restorative justice, the controversial Darusman Report is intent on having retributive justice, to punish one party to the conflict. This is a discriminatory practice of targeting the victorious party, which is Sri Lanka. The Report has the potential of re-opening healing wounds and of gravely harming the reconciliation process, leading lawyer Gomin Dayasri told the Daily News in an interview

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