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...orchestrate the outer geometric identity of a waterfall, conventions pull together human turmoil to orchestrate the notion of humanity. The Tamil Tigers can perpetrate the above crime and face mere condemnation from a few countries, because almost no convention to protect war-affected communities exerts enough pressure on rebel groups who abuse civilians. Nearly all mechanisms are devised to limit the scope of military action that a government can take to face a rebellion, which has been proven insufficient to protect internally displaced persons. Moreover, this pressure imbalance is often abused by parties with vested interests to interfere...

Author: By Thrishantha nanayakkara | Title: Need for New Global Conventions | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...shot and killed 19 civilians as they attempted to cross over to government held areas. The incident was not widely reported in international media, perhaps due to its low political appeal. However, it is absolutely imperative that we resolve—as a global community—that no rebel group or government be allowed to commit such crimes against humanity again...

Author: By Thrishantha nanayakkara | Title: Need for New Global Conventions | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...during the colonial past—often lead such governments to take extreme precautions to ensure no covert foreign force creeps into their internal politics again. This was evident in Sri Lanka when the government ordered all non-governmental organizations except the International Committee of Red Cross to leave rebel-held areas in September 2008. This action was taken after Sri Lankan authorities learned that several NGOs had wittingly or unwittingly given material aid to the Tamil Tigers...

Author: By Thrishantha nanayakkara | Title: Need for New Global Conventions | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...machinery from them. The government’s position was further consolidated when the program officer of another NGO, called “ZOA,” stated that he would remain with the LTTE to fight against the government, thus disobeying the demand to move out of the rebel-held area...

Author: By Thrishantha nanayakkara | Title: Need for New Global Conventions | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...Working with Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts), an assistant D.A. who's been sleuthing the IBBC case from the New York City end, Salinger tries to corral the bank's CEO, Jonas Skarssen (Ulrich Thomsen), a dimpled smoothy who woos rebel chiefs on three continents with arms shipments for their would-be revolutions. Osama bin Laden needn't have buttonholed his Saudi relatives for al-Qaeda cash; he could have gone to Skarssen. As the banker tells an African insurgent, "The real value of a conflict, the true value, is the debt it creates." Hearing the outlines of this conspiracy, today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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