Chronological order (latest at the bottom)
UN Dodges Questions of Sri Lanka Pull-Out and Kosovo Cover-Up, UNDP Fees
UN Dodges on Sri Lanka and Congo, Burma, Kosovo and Afghanistan
On Sri Lanka, UN Won’t Confirm its Own Reports or Call for Ceasefire
At UN on Sri Lanka, Russia Blocked Mexican Request for Briefing, Ban’s Contradiction
In UN Council, Japan Works on Sri Lanka Issue, “Ongoing Engagement of UN”
UN’s Ban Prepares for a “No” from Obama, Dialogue Except in Sri Lanka
UN’s Ban Defends Lack of Sri Lanka Ceasefire Call, Misunderstands His Powers
UN Mistakes Sri Lanka for Zimbabwe, Access to Vanni Doubtful, UNICEF No Comment Yet
On Sri Lanka, Still No UN Cease Fire Call, UNICEF is Blocked, Japan Presence Wasted
At UN, Russia Maintains Sri Lanka Issues Not in Council, UK Disagrees But Does Not Act
In Sri Lanka, UN Has Casualty Estimate But Won’t Release, No Cease Fire Call
In Sri Lanka, Civilians Deaths Counted at 1898 by Locals, UN Refuse to Estimate
In UN Council, “No Strong Request” Anymore for Sri Lanka Meeting, Japan’s Mediation Results
With UN’s Holmes in Sri Lanka, Government Supported, Staff Scared, Deaths Uncommented On
On Sri Lanka, UK’s for UN Council Session Upon Holmes’ Return, “Shocking,” Robinson Calls It
“…a senior UN official, speaking to Inner City Press on condition of anonymity, said the question is what level of civilian death is acceptable. One thousand was deemed too much in Gaza, but 2000 for now seems deemed okay in Sri Lanka.“
As Sri Lankan Army Toured UN’s Holmes, Questions Left Unanswered
On Sri Lanka, as UN’s Ban Calls for “Suspension of Fighting,” No Council Meeting Yet
As Sri Lanka Ignores UN’s Call for Cessation of Hostilities, Detention Camps UN commented On
On Sri Lanka, Requests for UN Council Session Languish, Camp Questions Go Unanswered
At UN, Sri Lanka Briefing Now Set for Friday, As Editor Arrested in Colombo
At UN, Council Belatedly Gets Sri Lanka Briefing, “No Politics,” Holmes Was Told
On Sri Lanka, UN Meeting Called One-Off, UK Makes No Proposals, Holmes Differs from Ban
In UN Council, March Agenda Omits Sri Lanka, UK Did Not Even Request, Libya Implies
At UN, Amid Sudan Indictment Hoopla, Myanmar Follow-Up and Sri Lanka Forgotten
On Sri Lanka, UN Notes Starvation, Believes No Heavy Artillery in Use, Defers to Council’s Silence
In Sri Lanka, UN Still Withholds Casualty Numbers, Funds Detention Camps
On Sri Lanka, IMF Says Its Pending Loan Would “Support Government Goals”
As UN Rights Expert Decries Sri Lankan Camps, OCHA Funds Them, Of Recruitment
In N. Sri Lanka, 2,683 Civilian Killings This Year, UN Leaked Documents Show
As Sri Lanka Says No to Conditions, UN Says It Will Set Them, Journalists and UNESCO
On Sri Lanka in UN Council, China Blocks March 26 Meeting, Vote May Be Called
On Sri Lanka, US’ Rice Joins Call for UN Council Briefing, ICC’s Ocampo Demurs
On Sri Lanka, Japan Wants UN Briefing, Austria Concerned about Killing by Both Sides
Sri Lanka Shelling No Fire Zone Noted at UN, Says Pillay Not UN
On Sri Lanka, UN Official Describes “Nightmare Scenario,” Treaty Official “Knows Better”
At UN, Sri Lanka Accused of Shelling Civilians, “Friendly Censure,” LTTE Condemned
IMF Loan to Sri Lanka Should Not Serve “Quasi Military” Purpose, UN Official Says
With UN Rebuffed in Sudan & Sri Lanka, UN Law & Order Episode Covered by CNN
As Sri Lanka Reject’s UN’s Ceasefire Call, No Response from Ban, Help Mulled as IMF Visits
As Mexico Heads UN Council, Sri Lanka Discussed, “Nightmare” May Be Closer
On Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Drops Call for Suspension of Fighting, Vague on Aerial Bombing
On Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Says “Never Again” to Call for Ceasefire or Suspension
On Sri Lanka, UN Adopts “Janus Face,” Half Calling to Stop Fighting, Hedging Bets
As Sri Lanka Issues Ultimatum, UN’s Ban Raises Other Issues, “No Fire” Zone in Peril
On Sri Lanka, Mexico Invokes Responsibility to Protect, Rebukes Colombo’s “Inaccuracies”
In Sri Lanka, UN Staff Detained in IDP Camps, Double Standard Alleged, Names Provided
In Sri Lanka, UN Staff Denied “Freedom of Movement” But UN Won’t Name Them
On Sri Lanka, UN Speak of Siege, Calls Cease-Fire Unrealistic, Only Private Diplomacy
UN Sends Nambiar to Sri Lanka, Quiet Diplomacy and Ships Off the Beach?
Sri Lanka Denies UN’s Claimed Advocacy for Detained Staff, UK’s Des Browne Said on Way to NYC
UN Misspeaks on Sri Lanka Complaints and Skanska Suit, Kosovo Runaround, Fiji Connections
On Sri Lanka, France Requests UN Briefing, Nambiar’s Slow Return, Ban’s Tilt
On Sri Lanka, UN Council “Waits for Nambiar,” UK Says It’s Listening, But…
At UN on Sri Lanka, US Call for Pause, UN Bobs and Weaves, Briefing Wednesday
On Sri Lanka at UN, Nambiar Said to Back Down to UK, Bloodbath Briefings
UN’s and Ban’s Backing-Down to Sri Lanka Questioned by NGOs, IMF Delay Praised
On Sri Lanka in UN Basement, Rice of US Speaks, Libya Offers Money, and China Support
On Sri Lanka at UN, Mere “Remarks to the Press,” UK Says IMF Loan Not Relevant
When Sri Lanka Ordered Doctors Out of Conflict Zone, UN Said Nothing
At UN, Few Press for Sri Lanka, Squeeze on N. Korea, Qazi Won’t Talk
In Sri Lanka, Access UN Claimed Nambiar Won Is Denied, Arrested Staff UNspoken For, IMF Loan and UK
On Sri Lanka, France Pitches Hospital Not IMF or Genocide, Ban Vs. Adada
At UN, Sri Lanka Briefing Chased Into Basement by China, Swede’s Exclusion Raised
Sri Lanka Damage Satellite Photos Withheld by UNITAR, IOM Staff Detained
At UN, Child Soldiers Half Addressed in Sri Lanka, Denied in Myanmar
Sri Lanka Disputes UN’s Lack of Access, EU’s Tariff Investigation as “Hype”
As Sri Lanka Descends to UN Basement, Underground Envoy Talk
On Sri Lanka, UN’s Holmes Tells Council to Speak with One Voice, Envoy Request
On Sri Lanka, UN Thinks Envoy’s No Help, UK Will Not Punish
As Sri Lanka Cracked Down on Press, UN Said Nothing, Now Congratulates Itself
On Sri Lanka, UN Dodges on Satellite Cover-Up and Arrest of Staff, UN TV
Russia Chides UN on NATO, Ban and Japan, Sri Lanka Not on Agenda
As UN Accused of Spying in Sri Lanka, Satellite Photo Withholding Continues
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May 11 - Amid Death in Sri Lanka, UN Wedding in New York, Ban’s Visit Delay Questioned
May 13 – At UN, Sri Lankan Carnage Boiled Down to 9 Paragraph Press Statement, Starvation
May 14 – At UN, Sweden Links EU Tariffs to Sri Lanka Carnage, Ban Again Sends Nambiar
May 15 – With Sri Lankan Safe Zone in Flames, UN Fiddles, War Crimes Charged
May 16 – As Sri Lanka Holds Doctors Incommunicado, UN Deaf and Dumb
May 17 – In Sri Lanka, No Access to Carnage Until Victory Speech, UN Lowers Expectations
May 18 – In Sri Lanka, UN Turns Away from Conflict Zone as Ban Visit Approaches
May 18 – In Sri Lanka, Doctors Detained As UN’s Ban to Visit with Press, Ethnic Aid
May 19 – In Sri Lanka, UN Spokesman Has Last Visa, Press In For 2 Days, Banned From Zone?
May 19 – In Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Says He’ll Visit Conflict Zone, Doctors Still in Custody
May 20 – On Sri Lanka, of Human Rights, Victors and Doctors Still Detained, Ban to the Zone
May 20 – On Sri Lanka, IMF Said Ready to Lend, Dodges Ethnic Cleansing, Where Are Obama, UK?
May 22 – Risk of UN’s Ban Being Manipulated by Sri Lanka Admitted by UN Official
May 22 – Sri Lanka Wants All Information from NGOs, Frustration with UN’s Quiet Diplomacy
May 22 – In Sri Lanka, UN Staff Languish in Jail, Abused, While UN Stays Silent
May 22 – In Sri Lanka, NGOs Asked for All Information, Frustrated with UN’s Quiet Diplomacy
May 22 – Headed to Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Hungry for Visions, Nambiar’s and Pascoe’s Helping Hands
May 22 – In Sri Lanka, Will Ban Address Blacklisting, Boosa Prison, Detentions and Right to Return?
May 23 – In 16 Hours in Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban To Overfly Zone of Carnage, Dine with President
May 23 – On UN’s Sri Lanka Trip, Holmes Did Not Favor It, NGOs Phase Out Work
May 24 – As UN’s Ban Leaves Sri Lanka, Questions Unanswered, Complicity in War Crimes?
May 25 – As Tamil MPs Are Rebuffed in Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban in Denmark, No Answers
May 26 – Back from Sri Lanka, UN’s Holmes Admits NGO Killings and Restrictions Not Raised
May 27 – In Sri Lanka, Red Cross Barred from “Interment” Camps Despite UN’s Rosy Picture
May 28 - At UN, Sri Lanka Sinks Lower than the Basement, Ban Criticized on Human Rights
June 2 – In Sri Lanka 13,130 Missing IDPs Reported But Downplayed By UN, Journalist Beaten
June 3 – UN’s Legal Threats to Press, Censorship Proposal in Memo to Ban, Navi Pillay Asked to Act
June 4 – In Sri Lanka, Nambiar Believed President, Ban’s Briefing Unnoticed, UN Studies Prosecution of Press
June 4 – On UN’s Censorship Proposal, Ban Has No Comment, Studying Crackdowns in Sri Lanka
June 5 – Sri Lanka Denies IDP Reduction Reported by Inner City Press, Raises to UN
June 5 – At UN, Last Sri Lanka Meeting Is Closed, Just a Briefing, Will Ban Finally Speak?
June 8 – In Sri Lanka, UN Pays for Camps But No Legal Protections, Nor for NGOs, Will Council Hear?
June 9 – On Sri Lanka, UN Has No Comment on Anti-Terror Law, Ban’s Freetown Rep Not Worried By Protest
June 10 – As Sri Lanka Deports Canadian MP, UN Has No Comment, Controls Questions To Be Asked
June 11 – At UN, Ban Bones Up on Safety and Swing Space, Sri Lanka Pushed into Past
June 11 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Holmes Contradicts His Colleague’s Caution, Sudan Double Standard?
June 11 – UN’s Ban Questioned on Record, on Sri Lanka, Half Time Pep Talk
June 12 – On Sri Lanka, UN Has No Comment on Prison Labor, New GA President Will Not Explain
June 15 – On Sri Lanka, Norway Worried by Camps, WHO by Doctors, Bill Clinton on Tsunami
June 16 – As Sri Lanka Cancels Its Self-Investigation, Ghoulish IDP Services for Fee, Where’s UN?
June 17 – As Sawers Becomes Top UK Spy, New Light on Secrecy, Sri Lanka and Sudan Strategy
June 17 – UN’s Ban Protested for Inaction on Sri Lanka Ethnic Cleansing
June 19 – In Sri Lanka Camps, UN Blind and Deaf Without Cameras or Cell Phones, African Concern
June 19 – As Sri Lanka Arrests Two UN Staff, UNHCR Offers Praise After Staying Silent
June 22 – HSBC Gushed About Sri Lanka Though IMF Loan for Ethnic Cleansing Delayed, Citi on Blood Bonds
June 23 – Sri Lankan Government Used Plainclothes Men in Unmarked Cars to Grab UN Staff
June 24 – Ex-UN’s Jan Egeland Describes “Horror” In Sri Lanka, Says R2P Has Failed, UN Silent
June 26 – UN Runs Scared of Sri Lanka, Says National Staff Not Immune — But Genocide Suspects Are
Jul 1 – In Sri Lanka, UN Hires Lawyer for Arrested Staff, But Will It Protect Anyone?
Jul 8 – As UK’s Malloch Brown Again Seeks Cash, Sri Lanka and IMF Loan Questions, UN Scandals
Jul 8 – Turkey’s Erdogan Says Will Put Xinjiang on UN Council Agenda, Didn’t on Sri Lanka, China’s Reaction
Jul 9 – As Sri Lanka Taxes and Cuts NGOs, Parades the Detained Doctors, UN Has Nothing to Say
Jul 14 – UN’s Staff Union Slams Sri Lanka Detentions, Cites Immunity as UN Claims in Sudan
Jul 15 – UN Speaks on Pakistan IDPs Return, Silent on Sri Lanka Internment and ACF Whitewash
Jul 16 – IMF Says on Sri Lanka, Int’l “Views Will Be Considered,” Spends on Honduras But Dodges Question
Jul 21 – At UN, D’Escoto’s R to P Methods Questioned, Team Ban Off Record on Sri Lanka, Off to China
Jul 21 – With UN Silent on Sri Lanka, IMF Staff Urge $2.5 Billion Loan, Will Views Be Heard?
Jul 22 – At UN, R to P Confusion on Somalia and Sri Lanka, Even on Funding of Early Warning Office
Jul 23 – At UN, Chomsky Calls Sri Lanka A Rwanda-like “Atrocity,” IMF and Oil Explanations
Jul 24 – As IMF Hands $2.5B Loan to Sri Lanka, Letter of Intent Withheld, Ethnic Cleansing Alleged
Jul 25 – After IMF Vote, Sri Lanka Releases Letter, Drops IDP Release from 80 to 60%
Jul 27 – IMF Won’t Detail Sri Lanka Vote Or Release MoU, Spins Only to Colombo Despite Press Exclusions
Jul 29 – On Sri Lanka, As UN’s Ban Speaks of IDPs’ Comfort, UN Dismissive of Abductions
Aug 2 – Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Cleansing Bonds Touted by StanChart and HSBC, IMF Silence on Vote Is “Policy”
Aug 4 – UK’s Sawers Explains Leaving Sri Lanka Off UN Council Agenda, on LRA No Answers
Aug 10 – At UN, No Answers on Sri Lanka Killings or Burma Bombs, Honduras and Niger Elections
Aug 16 – On Sri Lanka, UN Funds Now Flooded Internment Camps, Still Silent on ACF Killings
Aug 18 – With UN Silent on Flooding of Sri Lankan Camps, Aid Groups Plead for Release of IDPs
Aug 19 – UN’s Ban Slammed by Norway’s Juul, on Burma and Sri Lanka Trips, Should Oslo Be Canceled?
Aug 19 – As UK Questioned on Arms Exports to Sri Lanka, No Action at UN on Flooded Camps
Aug 23 – In Sri Lanka, Death Threats Over Speaking on EU’s GSP Plus Tariff Treatment, Silence at UN
Aug 25 – At UN, A Call for An Envoy for Sri Lanka, Murder as Diagnosis, Footage Emerges
Aug 26 – As UN Mulls Sri Lankan Murder Video, Report on Camps Withheld, UK Passes Buck
Aug 28 – UN Admits Error, Now Says “No Foul Play” in Sri Lankan President’s Relative’s Death
Aug 31 – At UN, Tortured Concern about Sri Lanka Killing Video But Not Reporter’s Term of 20 Years
Sep 3 – Two UN Views of Sri Lankan Killing Video, Holmes in Norway Putting Out Fires
Sep 5 – As Sri Lanka Expels UNICEF Spokesman for Camp Comments, Ban Meeting Moot
Sep 9 – At UN, ICC’s Map of Crimes Includes Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Zimbabwe, Unacted On by Victors’ Justice
Sep 13 – On Sri Lankan Torture and Exclusion, UN Gives Run Around, HSBC into Jaffna
Sep 14 – UN’s Ban Speaks with Sri Lankan President, Internment Continues, S. Koreans Greeted
Sep 14 – After Sri Lanka Call, UN’s Ban Sends Pascoe Not Nambiar, Internal “Accountability” on Agenda
Sep 15 – UN’s Gaza Report Favors EU Cases on Geneva Conventions, Sri Lanka Raised, Pascoe Waits
Sep 15 – UN Dodges on Darfur Replacements and UNRWA Strike, Murky Sri Lankan Ambassador Meeting
Sep 16 – On Sri Lanka Detentions, UN’s Top Lawyer Won’t Opine, of Privileges and the Pen
Sep 17 – After Bloodbath on the Beach, Sri Lanka Offers Fish Balls with a View of UN
Sep 17 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Speaks But No Questions Allowed, Pascoe Spin
Sep 21 – As Japan and Clinton Met, Sri Lanka Not Mentioned, Myanmar Only Later, Prisoner Questions
Sep 22 – On Sri Lanka, Australia’s Rudd Says He’s Watching, UN Silent on Immunity, Miliband at UN
Sep 23 – At UN, Miliband and Kouchner in Sri Lankan Meeting Friday, Japan Says It’s Resolved
Sep 24 – IMF Disappears Questions on Post-Coup Honduras, Sri Lanka Withholding and Jamaica
Sep 24 – As If at UN, Sri Lankan PM at Asia Society Faces Pre-Screened Softball Questions
Sep 26 – At UN, Sri Lanka’s Speech in Near Empty Hall Cheered by Defense Minister, UK Silent
Sep 28 – As Sri Lankan IDPs Shot, UN’s Pascoe Says Camps To Be “Thinned Out,” Council Should Meet
Sep 29 – At UN, Ban Cannot Stop Sri Lanka’s Shooting, Blake’s Visit, Report Mid-October
Oct 6 – At UN, Questions of Rain and Sri Lanka’s Camps, of Elections and Interruptions
Oct 14 – With UN Sending Cammaert to Sri Lanka on IDPs, Kohona Combats Salt and Probes
Oct 15 – UNDP Reports on Clark’s Kiwi Concerns, Doss Probe In Limbo, Ryan on Sri Lanka
Oct 20 – Is Sri Lanka Postponing Visit of UN’s Caemmart Retaliation? UN Claims Photo-Op Was Disclosure
Oct 24 – On Sri Lanka, UN Inaction on Torture, Refugees, Peacekeepers’ War Crimes and Sexual Abuse
Oct 27 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Alston Probes Execution Video, Kaelin Says His Praise Was Misquoted
Nov 4 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Cammaert’s Visit Now December 5, Council Lauds Basement Meetings
Nov 11 – With Sri Lanka Ignored in UN Debate, Austria Speaks of Proposal, UN’s Holmes Moves On
Nov 11 – As Sri Lanka Announces UN Holmes To Visit, Is UN’s Silence the Silent Deal?
Nov 17 – Land Mine Use Defended by Sri Lanka as UN Says Nothing, of “Victim Activated” IEDs
Nov 18 – Amid Reports of War Crimes, IMF Gives More Funds to Sri Lankan Government and Spins on Human Rights
Nov 23 – In Sri Lanka, IDPs Given Passes, NGOs Told Not to Complain to UN, Election Games
Nov 25 – Venezuela Wants Colombia in UN Council Agenda, Unlike Honduras and Sri Lanka
Nov 27 – Child Soldiers in Sudan and Myanmar, No UN Comment on Sri Lanka, LRA on Move
Dec 4 – As Sri Lanka Still Bars Press from Camps, UN Denies Receiving Elders’ Letter
Dec 4 – At UN, Ocampo Turns O-Kafka, Threatens Any Denier With ICC Prosecution, Sri Lanka Silence
Dec 10 – Sri Lanka Falls Off Radar of UN and US, Despite Rapp Report and Disappearances
Dec 14 – As Killing of Those Seeking to Surrender in Sri Lanka Is Alleged, Will UN Investigate?
Dec 21 – On Sri Lankan Killings, As Alston Asks Rajapaksas, Why Not UN’s Nambiar?
Dec 31 – On Sri Lanka, UN Won’t Be “Used” or Speak on Broken IDP Promises or Elections
2010
Jan 6 – On Sri Lanka, UN Won’t Observe, Has Hopes for IDPs, Mute on Accountability
Jan 7 – On Sri Lankan War Crimes, UN Discloses Ban Expert Panel Idea, Election Snub Questioned
Jan 7 – At UN, Ban Cites Old Sri Lanka Calls to Evade War Crimes Findings
Jan 8 – On Sri Lanka, Last Act of UN’s Ban Was Three Months Ago, Despite War Crimes
Jan 11 – On War Crimes, UN’s Ban Listens to Sri Lanka President over Alston’s Views
Jan 12 – At UN, Sri Lanka Shooting of Opposition Draws No Comment, No Probe
Jan 22 – EU’s Ashton “Concerned” By Rights in Sri Lanka, On Election, No UN Ban Follow Up
Jan 27 – As UN Fires Tear Gas in Haiti, Sri Lanka Gives Tea, UNICEF Info Awaited
Jan 27 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Expresses Canned Relief as Opposition Candidate Surrounded
Jan 29 – As Sri Lanka Expels Journalists and Raids Opposition, UN’s Ban Relieved Still
Feb 2 – As UN Spins Statements on Sudan Separatism, Ban’s Stance on Sri Lanka Recalled
Feb 4 – On Goldstone, UN’s Ban Files Only 4 Paragraphs of Observations, on Sri Lanka, Nothing
Feb 8 – As Sri Lanka Arrests Fonseca, Censors War Crimes and Calls Nambiar, UN Quiet
Feb 9 – UN’s Ban to Call Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa about Fonseka’s Arrest, Nambiar Questions
Feb 10 – Sri Lanka Says UN’s Ban “Congratulates” Rajapaksa After Arrest of Fonseka, Press Crackdown
Feb 11 – Amid Tear Gas, UN Lets Stand Sri Lanka Claim of Its Congratulations, UN’s “Good Journalism” Guide
Feb 16 – At UN, CPJ on Pariah States N. Korea and on Sri Lanka, Buying Tickets, Iran’s Eye
Mar 3 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Was Lied To, But Pascoe Trip Delay, of Job Requests
Mar 4 – Araud of France Gives Economic Read of Iran Sanctions, Ban’s Sri Lanka Inaction
Mar 8 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Ban Restates Concern on Lack of Progress, Unaware of Job Request
Mar 10 – UK’s Hi Tech Miliband Is Asked of Somalia and Sri Lanka, by Twitter, Yes or No
Mar 12 – At UN, Dance of Libya and Switzerland, Munoz on Lula Over Ban for S-G 2012, Sri Lanka Charades
Mar 15 – On Sri Lanka, UN Now Says Panel “Not Very Soon,” Response to NAM, and by UK
Mar 16 – At UN, Ban Says “No Delay” in Naming Sri Lanka Panel, Report Only to Him
Mar 17 – At UN, Mandela and Rugby Praised, No Answers on Sri Lanka or Sudan, Invictus
Mar 18 – On Sri Lanka, UN Puts Spin on “No Delay,” Jabs at NAM, Will Fonseka Meet Pascoe?
Mar 19 – On Sri Lanka, As UK Disagrees With NAM Letter, IMF, Pascoe and Panel After Election?
Mar 24 – For UN’s Sri Lanka Panel, Nambiar Meets with Kohona, “Two Foxes,” Sources Say
Apr 19 – At UN, Sri Lanka Gets $3M from Ban, Fixes Panel and Pushes Its Troops, Protests and New School DPR
Apr 22 – As Sri Lanka AG Met With UN’s Ban, War Crimes Panel Unnamed for Six Weeks
Apr 24 – The UN and its Mail, on Free Press, Sri Lanka and Middle East, True Believers
May 5 – On Sri Lanka, As UN’s Ban Delays on Panel, Pascoe’s Trip Delayed For “Goodies”
May 6 – IMF Consumed in Greek Fire, Dodges on Romania, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Rwanda
May 11 – On War Crimes Experts, UN Waits for “Sham”Sri Lankan Panel, Hiding Behind Rice
May 13 – On Sri Lanka War Crimes, US’ Rice Supports UN’s Ban, So Panel Without Delay?
May 16 – On Sri Lanka, ICG Calls for Investigation of UN Inaction, Ban Panel Still Delayed
May 17 – On Sri Lanka, UN Can’t Say How Many Died, Nor if Ban Called for Ceasefire
May 18 – On Sri Lanka, UN Won’t Answer Questions, Its IRIN Censors Criticism of Ban?
May 20 – On Sri Lanka, IMF Calls War Crimes Report Of Concern, Tranche Turns on Budget?
May 24 – On UN Role in Sri Lanka War Crimes, Ban Rejects Then Denies Rejecting Allegations
May 24 – As UN Ban Ki-moon Hosts Sri Lanka Peiris, Press Banned Even from Photo Op, “Turn That Camera Off”
May 25 – As Sri Lanka Spins, UN Slow and Silent on Why Stopped Counting the Dead
May 26 – On Sri Lanka, UN Did Not Recuse Nambiar, UK Supports Ban Panel, Peiris Waits
June 03 – On Sri Lanka, UN Continues to Spin Threat Against Its Staff, From Gandhi to
June 19 – On War Crimes, US Rapp Says Sri Lanka Panel Doesn’t Meet Standards, Ban Names Next Week
June 23 – Sri Lanka Spin on S. Africa and ASEAN Played Role in UN Panel, Khmer Rouge Rajapaksa
June 24 – As Sri Lanka Says No Visas, UN Says No Need to Visit or Talk to Witnesses
June 30 – As Sri Lanka Threatens UN Staff, Ban’s UN Makes Excuses, Calls It Gandhian
July 03 – On Sri Lanka, UN Continues to Spin Threat Against Its Staff, From Gandhi to Apology?
July 04 – As Sri Lanka Party in Power Threatens UN Staff, Ban Stays Silent, DPR To Go
July 05 – Sri Lanka Army Claims Dutch Ambassador Support Despite EU Human Rights Cut of GSP Plus Concession
July 05 – Sri Lanka Minister and Mob Hold UN Staff Hostage, Ban Remains Silent
July 06 – UN Downplays Sri Lanka Hostage Taking of its Staff, Ban Has Not Called Rajapaksa
July 07 – As UN Capitulates and Closes Sri Lanka Office, Conflict in Council, Bribery Alleged
July 07 – As Sri Lanka Burns Him in Effigy, UN Ban Has No Comment, Pillay Says Speak to Gov’t
July 07 – As Sri Lanka Minister Blocks 150 UN Staff, UN Nambiar Assured by Kohona
July 09 – In Sri Lanka, UNDP Center Was Already Being Downsized, Ban’s Act Overplayed
July 09 – Sri Lanka’s Blocking of UN War Crimes Panel Visas Unremarked on by Ban
July 12 – As Srebenica Remembered at UN, Kyrgystan Forgotten, Sri Lanka Lobbying
July 12 – Sri Lanka Statement Minimizing UN Panel Done with Buhne, As Kohona Pitches Officials
July 20 – As Sri Lanka Panel Meets With Nambiar, 4 Month Clock Frozen, Pillay’s Office Will Staff
July 23 – Ban Ki-moon’s UN Called Secret on Corruption, Silent on Torture from Sri Lanka to Sudan
Aug 2 – As UN Names Gaza Flotilla Panel, Uribe Seems Ill-Timed, Sri Lanka Delay Contrasted
Aug 3 – At UN, Sri Lanka Panel’s 4 Months Has Not Begun, Ban Gives In to Protest?
Aug 25 – At UN, Sri Lanka Move to Place Alleged War Criminal As Ambassador Questioned
Aug 26 – On Sri Lanka, UN’s Holmes Speaks of Gov’t Shelling, Casualties, 2 Sides’ Propaganda
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