Tigri Tamil e rifugiati: problemi diversi per lo Sri Lanka.

Measures have been taken to rehabilitate some 10,000 LTTE fighters – many of whom were forcibly conscripted by the separatist rebels. On 20 September the Justice and Law Reforms ministry announced a $23m programme called Reintegrating ex-LTTE Cadres into Civilian Life, in association with the International Organisation for Migration. The United States, Japan, Britain and India have promised financial assistance to the programme; Unicef and INGOs will be helping; and many big Sri Lankan companies have offered their support.

Conditions in the camps were highlighted by an incident in the Menik Farm camp on 26 September when, according to the UNHCR, “several people are said to have been injured, including a child who was hit by a stray bullet and is now paralysed.”
Col R Hariharan, head of intelligence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka from 1987-1990, believes the EU cannot ignore strong public opinion about Sri Lanka’s conduct. He says the government “has to come out with a list of LTTE cadres and camp followers in custody so that there is a record of who is where, lest further accusations of executions in custody pile up. These are basic norms of good governance and Sri Lanka is expected to adhere to them. These issues are gathering adverse international momentum and nothing convinces international community as much as visible results.”

(Rehabilitating the Tigers)

I primi quattro.

Chinese authorities have carried out their first executions of Tibetans in connection with the deadly riots that swept Lhasa last year, according to exile groups.

It identified three of the executed Tibetans as two men – Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak – and a woman named Penkyi. The fourth victim was not named.

(China executes Tibetan protesters)

Resistenza.

The posters are a matter of some concern to the local party apparatus, in part because Kim Jong Il’s name was used without any honorific title (Great General, Grand Kleagle, Most Omnipotent Plenipotentiary, His Previously Porcine Majesty). How concerned are they? Apparently, the security forces have plans to haul in 80,000 people for handwriting samples.

(Anti-Kim Jong Il Posters Trigger Massive Dragnet in Small Farming Town)
(N Korea food shortage 'desperate')

Il grande imbonitore (già alle corde).

The White House trying to dictate who's a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?

(Excuses wearing thin for Obama, media pals)

Tutti pazzi per Kim.

He showed a lot of enthusiasm. He said he hopes the North and South Korean government can talk things through so to have a lot of South Korean companies enter the North, and he also said that since they have the natural resources and the South has the skills to sell, if both sides work together he expects the North and South to prosper.

(Doing business in North Korea)

Ci siamo giocati anche il Darfur.

The Obama administration has formulated a new policy for Sudan that proposes working with that country’s government, rather than isolating it as President Obama had pledged to do during his campaign.
In an interview on Friday, President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, retired, said the policy, to be announced Monday by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, would make use of a mix of “incentives and pressure” to seek an end to the human rights abuses that have left millions of people dead or displaced while burning Darfur into the American conscience.

(Obama Drops Plan to Isolate Sudan Leaders)

Storie di eroi (senza Nobel).

But first, Vaclav Havel had a question.
Was it true that President Obama had refused to meet the Dalai Lama in Washington?

Told that Mr. Obama had made clear he would receive the Dalai Lama after his first presidential visit to China in November, Mr. Havel reached out to touch a magnificent glass dish, inscribed with the preamble to the United States Constitution — a gift from Mr. Obama, who visited in April.
“It is only a minor compromise,” Mr. Havel said of the nonreception of the Tibetan leader. “But exactly with these minor compromises start the big and dangerous ones, the real problems”.

(Havel, Still a Man of Morals and Mischief)

Such a lovely place.



(Will "Hotel of Doom" ever be finished?)

Realismo e pallone. Fa sempre un certo effetto vedere determinate immagini... Videla e il suo cappotto, tutti quei coriandoli, Kissinger che tifa Argentina, l'America e i militari... Storie del passato, no?



P.S. Che sofferenza ieri.

Anna. Ci sono i Nobel, e poi le cose serie.



(Three Years - No Killer, No Justice)

First in, first out. Per un increscioso errore ho ordinato due volte ad Amazon il libro di James Fallows



Se qualcuno fosse interessato alla copia in eccesso me lo faccia sapere all'indirizzo e-mail qui a fianco e vedrò di inviarglielo. Consideratelo un premio fedeltà per chi è rimasto. Il notaio certifica che il primo che lo richiede se lo porta a casa.

Che qualcosa non torni? Chissà che anche agli osannanti Obama-boys sorga qualche dubbio ogni tanto...



 (Fidel Castro lauds Nobel prize for Obama)

21768 pallottole alla nuca. Un film necessario.



 (Katyn massacre)

Scambiamoci un segno di Pace.



(Obama's self-defeating "realism" in Asia)