05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka: In the frantic confusion of the last hours of the Tamil Tigers' war, some sought a way out. Through text messages and phone calls they offered an unconditional surrender, in return for safe passage out of the war zone.
05/14/2011
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Sydney Morning Herald
BEATEN, bloodied and with nowhere left to run, they received the text message just before 9 o'clock on the Sunday morning.
It came, through an intermediary, from the foreign secretary of the Sri Lankan government, apparent instructions for a surrender: "Just walk across to the troops, slowly. With a white flag and comply with instructions carefully. The soldiers are nervous about suicide bombers."
05/10/2011
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Inner City Press
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 -- As Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN Palitha Kohona walked out of the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Inner City Press asked him about the European Union's statement on the UN Panel of Experts war crimes report, and about reported “militarization” of Colombo.
03/14/2011
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Asia Society
NEW YORK, March 14, 2011 - Sri Lankan Amb. Palitha T.B. Kohona, Amb. Robert Blake of the US State Dept., and Asia Society's Jamie Metzl assess prospects for reconciliation in postwar Sri Lanka. (1 hr., 47 min.)
Asia Society, Blake, development, Diaspora, GoSL, Kohona, Metzl, post-war, U.S.
03/03/2011
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TamilNet
When events similar to what happened and is happening in the island led to international intervention and liberation of the affected in many other instances of the world, the issue of Eezham Tamils is consciously blunted as something concerned to insurgency, counterinsurgency and war crimes investigation of both. In the process, the main culprit of decades, i.e., the Sri Lankan state (not the regimes) escapes unscathed and is being saved by those who have a problem of irregularity with their appetite, writes TamilNet political commentator in Colombo responding to discussions in a live web-seminar conducted by Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research of Harvard University on 24 February.
07/11/2010
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Sunday Times
After having failed in its last attempt to get the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to back Sri Lanka against Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the government is making a last ditch effort to convince the 118-member group to take sides in the growing political confrontation at the United Nations.
07/08/2010
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ColomboPage
July 08, Colombo: Many of the rules of war were based on the presumption that the warring parties in an armed conflict are conventional armies of states and in Sri Lanka's case the LTTE terrorists totally disregarded those laws and principles, Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the UN, Palitha Kohona pointed out to the UN Security Council yesterday (07).
07/08/2010
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Sri Lankan Mission to the United Nations
Madam President,
My delegation believes that the protection task cannot be simply understood and addressed in humanitarian terms alone as it requires focus and action on a multiplicity of different areas ranging from politics, to human rights to disarmament. The Security Council has considered of the protection of civilians issue for over a decade. We can acknowledge that substantive results have been achieved in establishing a normative framework. The politicization and selectivity that characterizes the debate has affected credibility. This has called into question our sincerity about concerns for the plight of civilians affected by armed conflict.
07/01/2010
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Reuters
July 1 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka presented its long-awaited 2010 budget in late June, aiming to cut its deficit and position its perennially underperforming economy to take maximum advantage of post-war optimism and opportunity.
06/18/2010
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Daily Mirror
The UN Special Committee on Israeli Practices in the Occupied Territories, led by Ambassador Palitha Kohona, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN in New York, expressed serious concerns about the human rights situation in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank -including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan.