The Tories’ shameful silence over human rights abuses in Sri Lanka
As a former colonial power, the UK has a duty to act to protect the people of Sri Lanka.
As a former colonial power, the UK has a duty to act to protect the people of Sri Lanka.
What Cameron’s decision appears to communicate is that accountability for mass murde isn’t that important to his government.
The government is proposing a pilot scheme starting in November to ask visitors from India, Nigeria, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh to pay a cash bond of £3,000 for a visitor visa that allows them to stay in the UK for up to six months.
The fringe issue of arms export criteria became headline news yesterday, with the Independent’s splash on an ‘arms for dictators’ scandal.
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.
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Disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox and his sidekick Adam Werritty’s gallivanting round Sri Lanka came under fresh scrutiny last night, reports Shamik Das.
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.