07/10/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
AUSTRALIANS will not tolerate cruelty to animals. Less clear is our tolerance for bestiality towards people. Or so one might think from the stony silence after a British documentary aired on Australian TV last week. The film proved that Sri Lanka's ''rescue'' of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians in 2009 was a bloody and cruel affair.
05/19/2011
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The Economist
MAY 19TH is the second anniversary of the Sri Lankan government’s announcement that its forces had killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. It marked the government’s definitive victory in a bloody 26-year civil war—one, moreover, that analysts, including this newspaper, had for years argued could never be won. Yet in the end victory was so complete that peace already seems permanent.
04/26/2011
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TRANSCRIPT: Weiss: Both sides were to blame
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast
Gordon Weiss was spokesman for the United Nation's humanitarian mission in Sri Lanka during the civil war.
04/26/2011
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Foreign Policy
Two years after its brutal counterinsurgency war ended, Sri Lanka faces new questions from the international community.
04/24/2011
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BBC, BBC Sinhala
UN should have done more to prevent civilian casualties at the last stage of the war in Sri Lanka, says a former UN spokesman.
04/18/2011
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Channel 4
The former UN spokesman in Sri Lanka Gordon Weiss, tells Jon Snow that a leaked UN report into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka is its "Srebenica Moment'.
07/16/2010
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The Australian
LEADERS slander Tamil refugees because they don't want them to reach our shores, says Gordon Weiss.