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The member countries of the Commonwealth are as follows :

 

Europe
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Cyprus
Malta
United Kingdom

 

Africa
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Botswana
Cameroon
Ghana
Kenya
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Rwanda
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Swaziland
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Zambia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Americas

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Barbados
Belize
Canada
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and The Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobag

 

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Brunei Darussalam
India
Malaysia
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Pakistan
Singapore
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Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

 

 

 

 

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Sham Death Sentence to Tangalle Killers for Prince Charles' Benefit !

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( October 17, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Yet another government sham is being planned under which Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Sampath Chandrapushpa Vidanapathirana and the other six accused in the killing of British tourist Khurram Shaikh and the raping of his female companion are to be indicted today (17) and the court hearing against them is to conclude before the Colombo CHOGM, with the accused being ‘sentenced to death.’
The investigation into this crime which took place on 24 December 2011 has made no progress up to now, and even the main accused was bailed out and had functioned as the chairman of Tangalle PS. The brother of the deceased, Khurram Shaikh, and the MP for his area, Rochdale, had visited Sri Lanka and expressed their dissatisfaction over the progress of the investigation. Although they sought an appointment to discuss the matters with the president, he had intentionally avoided them.
Chief guest of the Colombo CHOGM, Prince Charles, who will be representing the Queen of Britain, recently told the media that he would make use of his visit to raise the killing of Khurraim Shaikh with the Sri Lankan government. Furthermore, prime minister David Cameron has told British parliament that the matter would top his agenda too, during his visit to the island.
Alarmed by these developments, president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government have planned this deception, under which this criminal case will be called by the Tangalle high court today in order to serve indictments by using the attorney general’s powers, without the conducting of a preliminary hearing, which was to take place at the Colombo chief magistrate’s court, to which it was transferred from the Tangalle magistrate’s court. The attorney general had recommended the case be taken up by a three member trial-at-bar, but his recommendation had been cancelled on the orders of the president.
Accordingly, once the indictments are served today, the hearing will continue and the accused would be sentenced to death before the CHOGM commences. The case will be taken up in absentia of the Russian female companion of Khurram Shaik, who is the key witness.
Hinting about the verdict, the president has told the Tangalle PS chairman, “Accept the ruling that will be given and go inside. In a few days I will use my powers and free you.” On this assurance by the president, the accused have agreed to accept the sentence. The president has also promised them all facilities during their incarceration.
In the end, the PS chairman and the other accused will come out, receiving a presidential pardon, while unanswered questions about fate of the empty T-56 cartridges found from the crime scene, persons who had brought the T-56 rifles, their connections with MP Namal Rajapaksa and as to how Khurram Shaikh’s female companion became a virgin once again will remain so forever.

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Khuram Shikh and Weliweriya : Lessons in Resistance
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara
“Nothing is given: we must find our law.” Auden (In Time of War)
( October 20, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)

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Indictments were filed against Sampath Chandrapushpa and other alleged murderers/rapists of Tangalle, 22 months after Khuram Shaikh was hacked to death and his Russian girlfriend gang-raped.

Sampath Chandrapushpa was the Ruling Family’s choice as the Chairman of the Tangalle Pradesheeya Sabha1. The Rajapaksas used every trick to prevent their henchman from being indicted. Time and again justice was promised – and denied. There was even a Defence Ministry-initiated crude attempt to efface the gang-rape charge2.
Sampath Chandrapushpa may eventually get away with murder/gang-rape, as Duminda Silva got away with child abuse and Chandana Kathriarachchi got away with murder (both indictments were withdrawn by the then AG Mohan Peiris). But the fact that he was charged in a court of law at all is a major victory against the Rajapaksa-juggernaut of impunity.
That victory was possible because the murder-victim was a British citizen; because his family and their local MP waged an untiring battle for justice; because a segment of the British media kept the issue alive; because the Rajapaksa obsession with the Commonwealth created a window of opportunity. The Canadian decision to boycott the Colombo Commonwealth reopened the discussion on the suitability of venue (Given the blood-soaked and oppressive genesis of the Commonwealth – the British Empire – and its current international irrelevancy, Colombo is a most apposite venue!). The British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee’s condemnation of the British approach as ‘timid’3 may have compelled the Cameron government to demand an indictment before the Commonwealth, as a face-saving measure (The Committee reportedly praised the Canadian boycott and recommended that Britain follows suit4; in a mark of displeasure at the Kamalesh Sharma-regimen, the UK has imposed a £3 million funding-cut on the Commonwealth Secretariat5).
While the international struggle for justice for Mr. Shaikh and Ms. Tkacheva achieved a partial success, the national struggle for clean water in Weliweriya is heading in the opposite direction. The people of Weliweriya do not have a powerful foreign government speaking on their behalf; there is no one out there globally arena, fighting for their cause6.
The people of Weliweriya – like ordinary people everywhere in Sri Lanka - are at the mercy of the Rajapaksas.
The owner of the controversial factory, like Sampath Chandrapushpa, is a favoured Rajapaksa-acolyte. Dhammika Perera not only sits atop a hydra-like business empire (his newest venture is building a $350million resort-cum-casino in Colombo7); curiously, he is also the Rajapaksa-appointed Secretary to the Ministry of Transport8.
How can the people of Weliweriya resist such a colossus of money and power – alone?
Last week, the police obtained a court order banning demonstrations in Weliweriya. The people’s struggle for their water-rights is thereby legally circumscribed. The Buddhist monk leading the campaign seemed to have experienced a ‘Road to Damascus’ moment and is now singing a Rajapaksa-aria. The ‘Siyenae Peoples Movement for Water Conservation’ is continuing the struggle, under difficult and dangerous circumstances. Had the Rajapaksas agreed to provide the people with free-water connections the issue could have been resolved peacefully; but the regime, which wastes billions on jobless-ports/airports, refuses to spend on providing ordinary people with a fundamental human need.
Instead the Rajapaksas seems determined to break the collective-will of the Weliweriya people through money, law and repression.
The fate of another grassroots-level leader of another popular struggle – for non-carcinogenic air – indicates that the future of the Sinhalese will be rather akin to the past and the present of Tamils.
In Dorape, Galle, a DSI-owned rubber factory has been accused of emitting carcinogenic fumes. The people of the area have been demonstrating peacefully against the factory for months. This week, the police anti-terrorist unit barged into the house of a leader of the protest movement, Norbert Silva, at 2 am and arrested him. The police claimed to have found hand grenades and bullets in his land. The people are convinced that the weapons had been planted9.
Juxtapose this with the news that the newly created Ministry of Law and Order plans to ‘reorganise’ the STF “as a precautionary step, in view of the possibility of outside terrorist groups tying up with local groups and causing disturbances in the country”10. According to Secretary (General) Nanda Mallawarachchi, “resurgence of terrorism with joint forces of outside terrorists could be more vicious and destructive than what the country had to endure for 30 years”. Therefore, “What is actually needed is to train the troops for accurate shooting, for hitting an enemy with each bullet fired. The STF will be given intensive training on the proper use of firearms”11.
Going by the Weliweriya shooting and the Dorape arrest, the ‘enemy’ the STF will be shooting at is likely to be ordinary Sinhalese protesting peacefully against injustices.
Last week, the Rajapaksa-CJ reportedly articulated a key tenet of Rajapaksa-law – terrorists do not have human rights. Dismissing the Ganeshan Niamalrauban case he proclaimed, “Terrorism must be dealt with strongest possible way just like in Chechnya. Nimalarauban is a terrorist and how else should he be treated?”12
Mr. Nimalarauban was never proven to be a terrorist/Tiger; he was studying during the war, and was arrested months later. The police alleged that he was transferring weapons in a three-wheeler13. Is an allegation by the police sufficient to prove that a man is a terrorist? Is that how a terrorist in Rajapaksa Sri Lanka is determined?
By the same token is Norbert Silva of Dorape a terrorist, undeserving of human rights including the right to life?
According to the Rajapaksa Army Commander, “If anyone stays within the democratic process we can all live happily. But if they go beyond that and become extremist, if they try to divide the country, it is not the country which will become divided but their heads from their bodies”14.
In Rajapaksa-land, the police decide the terrorist; he/she is rendered right-less by the law and murdered by the army.
Adopt a Campaign
The indictment of Sampath Chandrapushpa demonstrates the importance of the international factor in any effective resistance to Rajapaksa Rule.
The democratic and centrist elements in the Lankan Diaspora have a pivotal role to play in this stage of Lankan history. Across the country, there are pockets of resistance to the regime’s injustices. In the absence of an effective opposition, such struggles are left bereft.
The Lankan Diaspora can change that.
What these isolated struggles need is not money but international exposure/solidarity. Given their current helpless condition, nothing will be too small.
Consider the Weliweriya struggle; the controversial factory depends on foreign-orders. A pressure campaign on the international-buyers of Dipped Products is something even a few committed members of the Lankan Diaspora can undertake. If Dipped Products has Western buyers, they will be vulnerable to image issues. The potential loss of orders might pressurise Dhammika Perera and the Rajapaksas to adopt a conciliatory stand.
Ordinary Lankans do not have powerful countries fighting for them. But there are Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims domiciled in those powerful countries. It is time at least some of them lent a peaceful and a democratic hand to their suffering brethren in Sri Lanka.
1 Mahinda Rajapaksa’s private residence, ‘Carlton’ is in Tangalle
2 Minister Dinesh Gunawardane told the parliament that Victoria Tkacheva was neither raped nor sexually abused, and mentioned the Defence Ministry as his informant - http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-37444-news-detail-khuram-shaikhs-partner-was-not-raped.html
3 http://www.trust.org/item/20131017110359-yzhnl/
4 http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-asia/panel-asks-cameron-to-boycott-chogm/article5251536.ece?homepage=true
5 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/10368301/Britain-cuts-funding-for-the-Commonwealth.html
6 The UNP is too busy rendering itself irrelevant. Neither Leader Ranil nor ‘Alternative Leader Sajith is lifting a finger to protest the ongoing eviction of Colombo’s poor. The UNP should have intervened to stop this horrendous injustice at least out of political considerations. The UNP’s Colombo base would vanish once Colombo’s poor are evicted. Sajith Premadasa’s total lack of interest in the plight of Colombo’s poor shows that, unlike his father, he is totally divorced from the ordinary problems of ordinary people. In this sense too he is more like Ranil Wickremesinghe than Ranasinghe Premadasa.
7 http://www.therepublicsquare.com/business/2013/09/17/dhammika-perera-350m-casino/
8 Dhammika Perera was appointed by President Rajapaksa in 2011, a few months after the Sunday Leader revealed that he owns the biggest chunk of the Colombo Stock Market – Rs.36 billion.
9 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/sri_lanka/2013/10/131018_dsi_dorape_terrorism.shtml;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/sri_lanka/2013/09/130930_dsi_dorape_factory.shtml
10 http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-45245-news-detail-stf-to-undergo-firearm-training.html
11 ibid
12 https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/de-facto-cj-exposed-himself-in-the-worst-possible-manner-in-courts/
13 http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/7855
14 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/sri_lanka/2013/10/131015_armychief_audio.shtml - In any democratic country, an army commander who makes such a murderous pronouncement will be sent home in disgrace; the fact that his words did not cause a stir, even in the oppositional ranks, shows how far we have come down the slippery-slope of militarization, abuse and impunity.

A Rajapaksa Acolyte Can Commit The Most Horrific Of Crimes Publicly And Get Away With It

14 July 2013, 3:39 am
By Tisaranee Gunasekara

““It was in the basement of the Sri Lankan Criminal Investigation Department… we sat and listened as a group of senior police officers took us through the case. My stomach churned as we learned of the sickening and horrific details of the completely unprovoked attack that Khuram and his partner had been subjected to”
British Parliamentarian Simon Danczuk
“They started beating me. I fell to the ground….. They killed Khuram and sexually assaulted me…”
That was Victoria Tkacheva, the 24 year old Russian tourist, who, with her companion Khuram Shaikh, came to Sri Lanka to enjoy a holiday in Paradise and found, instead, Hell.
According to witnesses, Ms. Tkacheva was discovered in a room, naked and unconscious. The police subsequently confirmed that she was either raped or sexually assaulted: “She had been raped or sexually assaulted and had suffered vaginal injuries, according to a Sri Lankan police report” .
Ms. Tkacheva waived her right to anonymity as a rape-victim because she wanted justice.
Sadly, justice, in Rajapaksa Sri Lanka, is the ultimate oxymoron.
According to a statement made in parliament by the Chief Government Whip, Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, Victoria Tkacheva was neither raped nor sexually abused. As if trying to exculpate himself from his putrid words, Minister Gunawardena added, “I am presenting the answer given to me by the Ministry of Defence, based on police records submitted to them” .
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the Minister of Defence. His younger brother Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence. The repulsive statement read out by Minster Gunawardane came from their ministry.
According to Mahinda and Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, either Ms. Tkacheva is lying or hallucinating; or beating a woman into unconsciousness and having sex is not rape.
In Rajapaksa Sri Lanka a brutal war became a ‘Humanitarian Operation’ and gigantic internment camps ‘Welfare Villages’. So why cannot rape become ‘consensual sex’?
Commenting on this latest outrage, British Parliamentarian Simon Danczuk said, “When I visited in March the head of police conducting the investigation showed us all the medical reports that clearly showed that she had been raped” .
Why did the police go back on their own findings?
The main accused, Sampath Chandrapushpa, is the man handpicked by the Ruling Family to head the Tangalle Pradesheeya Sabha. Tangalle is the Rajapaksa pocket-borough; the President’s private residence, Carlton House, is located there. The fact that Samptha Chandrapushpa was chosen to head the Tangalle PS proves that he is a very, very favoured acolyte of the Rajapaksas. Rather like Duminda Silva, who was appointed by the Rajapaksas as the Monitoring Parliamentarian for the Defence Ministry, even though he had been charged with raping a minor!
Sampath Chandrapushpa is a ‘Chosen One’ of the Rajapaksas. Therefore he must be saved, the same way the other ‘Chosen Ones’ (Duminda Silva, Mervyn Silva, et al) were saved. Because in Rajapaksa Sri Lanka, the only real and unforgivable crime is opposing the Rajapaksas; everything else, including murder, rape and child abuse, is a mere bagatelle. A Lankan who does not commit the ultimate crime of anti-Rajapaksaism can get away all the lesser crimes.
If the Defence Ministry can save Sampath Chandrapushpa by proclaiming that Khuram Shaikh died a natural death, it would do so. Had Mr. Shaikh been a Lankan or even a citizen of a non-democracy friendly towards the Rajapaksas, the Siblings may have given that angle a try. That is a non-option, because Mr. Shaikh was British; even if David Cameron is willing to acquiesce in such an abomination, British media/public will not let him. But such skulduggery was possible with the rape/sexual assault charge, because the victim is a Russian and protecting the rights of Russians has never been a priority for President Putin.
If the police report about the assault on Ms. Tkacheva was turned on its head, the DNA evidence about Mr. Shaikh’s murder too can be tampered with.
Recently Sampath Chandrapushpa said that the case filed against him by the CID was the “result of an international conspiracy against the Sri Lankan Govt” . This indubitably would be the line his Rajapaksa-masters would take, when he walks free, triumphantly, cleared of all charges, post-Hambantota Commonwealth.
A Suicidal Nation
If the horror experienced by a tourist can be denied in such a cavalier fashion, what cannot happen to a Lankan woman or child who is raped/sexually assaulted by a Rajapaksa crony?
The denial of the rape/sexual assault charge sends a clear and cogent message: a Rajapaksa acolyte can commit even the most horrific of crimes, publicly, and get away with it.
In such a climate, where impunity has been taken to an obscene extreme, no non-Rajapaksa Lankan can be safe, from marauding Rajapaksa-men.
Even non-Rajapaksa SLFPers and their families will be unsafe in this clime of criminal and perverse permissiveness. After all, Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was a close supporter and friend of Mahinda Rajapaksa, during his nonentity-years. Those years of loyalty availed Mr. Premachandra nothing. He was murdered; his alleged murderer did not serve a day in jail.
Sri Lankans, if they have any concern about the safety of themselves and their loved ones, must consider the enormity of this latest Rajapaksa outrage. The denial of rape/sexual assault charge proves that there is no obscenity, no abomination that is beyond the Rajapaksas. They will go to any amoral extreme, any execrable length to save themselves and their acolytes.
Rajapaksa corruption goes beyond economics and politics; it is moral corruption as well. The Siblings are not only corrupting the judiciary, the bureaucracy and the monks, but society as well. When a rape/sexual assault charge is negated in such a blasé manner, it cannot but encourage abusive and predatory conduct across society.
The Siblings preach morality and values and do the opposite. They ban ‘unsuitable’ movies while ignoring real-crimes and encouraging social-vices. Child abuse and rape have risen to epidemic levels. Extortionate taxes are imposed on essential goods (including medicines and baby formula) while mega-casinos get mammoth tax-breaks.
When Vellupillai Pirapaharan’s mother died, three bitches were killed and their bodies dumped at her cremation site.
This is Rajapaksa civilisation – a puritanically pious shell hiding innards of ruthless depravity and criminal prurience.
Colm O’Gorman, a pioneer in the expose-cum-battle against clerical-child abuse in Catholic Ireland, warned, “We make ourselves powerless when we pretend we don’t know” . If the Rajapaksas are allowed to get away with arbitrarily and anti-factually dropping the rape/sexual abuse charge, we will be rendering ourselves and our loved ones vulnerable to similar atrocities.
We can profess unconcern about the second raping of Victoria Tkacheva. We can opine that the Rajapaksas are blameless because they defeated the LTTE. We can believe that all calumny stems from Gotabhaya and other Rajapaksas are good men. But we can indulge in such self-delusion, only at our own peril. Even if we do not become direct targets, we will find ourselves living in a society plagued by moral corruption. In this society not only will war be peace, slavery freedom and ignorance strength; here murder will be natural death, rape consensual-sex and child abuse child care.
The Tamils already know this horrendous reality. It is now our turn.

14 July 2013, 3:39 am
By Tisaranee Gunasekara

About Kuram Shaik & Victoria Tkacheva For more information (Click Here)

Commons panel asks Cameron to ‘boycott’ CHOGM

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It says the decision to hold the meet in Colombo was wrong because of continuing "rights abuses in Sri Lanka".

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee in its report ‘Role and Future of the Commonwealth’ has sharply criticized the decision to hold the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, and has called upon Prime Minister David Cameron to boycott the meeting.

“We conclude that continuing evidence of serious human rights abuses in Sri Lanka shows that the Commonwealth's decision to hold the 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo was wrong,” the Report concluded. “We are impressed by the clear and forthright stance taken by the Canadian Prime Minister, who has said he would attend the Meeting only if human rights were improved. The UK Prime Minister should publicly state his unwillingness to attend the meeting unless he receives convincing and independently-verified evidence of substantial and sustainable improvements in human and political rights in Sri Lanka.”

The committee referred to the observations of the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau made after the last CHOGM conference held in Perth in 2011 warning against holding the 2013 meeting in Sri Lanka. It reportedly stated that Sri Lanka was " boasting about defeating terrorism on home soil, whilst standing accused by others of only doing so through gross human rights abuses, possibly tantamount to war crimes."

In the context of what it calls “intensive lobbying in the past year by anti-Sri Lanka activist groups with collateral agendas, especially in London,” the Sri Lankan High Commission in the UK has issued a statement confirming that Mr. Cameron, and Foreign Secretary William Hague will be attending the meeting.

Dr. Chris Nonis, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK was recently interviewed on BBC Radio Channel 4’s ‘Today’ programme where he said that the international community should visit Sri Lanka and come to their own conclusions after making a “objective and impartial analysis’ of the situation on the ground.

Keywords: CHOGM meet, Sri Lanka rights issue

Britain cuts funding for the Commonwealth As the organisation faces criticism over its forthcoming Sri Lanka summit, major donors are pulling funds due to concerns over its direction (Clik Here) (The telegraph.co.uk)

For more information (Click Here) Tangalla tourist Hotel ghastly murder and rape- here is the true story with evidence: Russian girl raped by 8 persons –eye witnesses say. A French national tourist , a resident of Canada who was an eye witness when this murder was committed revealed the stark facts pertaining to this gruesome murder . We shall name him as ‘Daniel' in this story. (Victoria Tkacheva Girl friend of Kuram Shaik) More Information about Khuram Shaikh (Click Here)