Granting the Sri Lankan government legitimacy like this is grotesque

In November a British delegation including the Queen is set to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, hosted and chaired by the accused government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. If Britain wants to live up to its self-proclaimed commitment to human rights, then it should move quickly to cancel its delegation to Colombo.

Fox’s Sri Lankan jolly under scrutiny

Liam Fox’s paid-for trips to Sri Lanka, revealed by LFF last month, are reported today in a BBC report into MPs’ overseas trips paid for by foreign governments.