Culture and Dissent Blog (25/12) - Noam Chomsky interviewed on BBC’s HARDtalk
Noam Chomsky is a signatory to the Sri Lankan Crisis Statement campaign and is also on the advisory council of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice.
06 JanNoam Chomsky on HardTalk
14 SepSri Lankan Crisis Statement handed to FM Stephen Smith
Medical Association for Prevention of War, Australia have just signed the Sri Lankan Crisis Statement II.
An activist helping with the campaign was able to personally meet and hand the statement directly to Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith.
29 JulChomsky: Sri Lanka, a Rwanda-like major atrocity the West didn't care
TamilNet : Chomsky: Sri Lanka, a Rwanda-like major atrocity the West didn’t care
Prof Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, said Thursday during a United Nations forum on Responsibility to Protect (R2P), that what happened in Sri Lanka was a major Rwanda-like atrocity, in a different scale, where the West didn’t care. “There was plenty of early warning. This [conflict] has been going on for years and decades. Plenty of things could have been done [to prevent it]. But there was not enough interest.” Chomsky was responding to a question that referred to Jan Egeland, former head of UN’s Humanitarian Affairs’ earlier statement that R2P was a failure in Sri Lanka, where Inner City Press (ICP) noted that nearly 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed.
Read article here.
Click here to listen to the UN discussion on R2P with Chomsky, Evans
