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...Some say that the final offensive was a test case for the notion that the international community has a responsibility to protect civilians caught in the cross-fire. It's my citizens. I am responsible for them. I have to protect them and get them out. If I allow some foreign country to come and do that, [the LTTE] would have killed most of the people. It is my soldiers who will protect my citizens. They are my people, they are my voters ... The international community must help the government if a government is elected properly by the people. (Read...
...Options In the face of pressure, Rajapaksa has hardened his position, interpreting criticism as a product of either LTTE propaganda or neocolonial sermonizing. He rejects the U.N.'s civilian-casualty figures and insists that conditions in the camps are good. But he has refused - even after declaring victory - to allow the press or international observers to verify those claims. No journalists or U.N. agencies have been permitted into the former war zone (with the exception of an entourage flying over it with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon), and journalists are allowed into the camps only on government-sponsored tours...
...deputy minister, believes Taiwan's shared culture and language give its businessmen an advantage in China that could make a partnership between the two especially powerful. Taiwan "has a unique relationship with China that is totally different from other countries in Asia," San says. "Our policy is to allow our firms to fully explore such advantages. There is a very good chance that both sides can work together to make the pie bigger...
...faculty, and I want our neurology program to get much bigger than it is now," Alpern said. "I actually want someone with his great taste to come here and recruit a lot of clinical and research faculty, and so we put up a package that would allow him to do both...
...Georgia's push for NATO membership but was careful not to be pinned to any timetable. The Obama Administration wants to be able to say that it supports Georgia's goal, safe in the knowledge that the Europeans, who blocked it even when Bush pushed hard, will not allow it to happen. The Western European NATO countries see Saakashvili as unstable and impetuous, and blame him for presenting Moscow with a pretext for its military humbling of Georgia...