Yup, it appears that the Sri Lankan government is using its virtually unconstrained powers to kill political dissidents:
THE 2009 victory of the Sri Lankan government over the Tamil Tigers in the country’s long-running civil war may have brought peace, but it has been an uneasy one. Now people from all walks of life are disappearing. No-one knows why but some blame the government.
Colleagues of two political activists—Lalith Kumar Weeraraj and Kugan Murugananthan—who went missing in Sri Lanka’s north on December 9th, fear the men are in grave danger.
On January 9th hundreds of clamouring demonstrators marched through the capital Colombo. They demanded that the government release the activists, put an end to abductions in the north and pull the military out of former conflict areas. In fact, the opposite is happening.
Mr Weeraraj and Mr Murugananthan spent much of the past few months campaigning on behalf of hundreds of missing Tamils, many of whom were last seen in the custody of the security forces. The two were intercepted in the northern city of Jaffna by men on motorcycles, bundled into a white van and taken away.
Udul Premaratne, another prominent campaigner, insists that the army—controversially still deployed in large numbers in Jaffna—is responsible. But despite several eyewitness accounts (the incident occurred just before nightfall), the police say they have do not have enough evidence to proceed with the case.
This pattern is now chillingly familiar. In December a government-appointed body, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), wrote in a report that it was alarmed by the large number of complaints of “abductions, enforced or involuntary disappearances, and arbitrary detentions”.
The rest of the article is over at the Economist.
Ducks and Economics 
Repulsive. Sri Lanka “defeated” their insurgency by wiping out fighters and their civilian sympathizers and no one was allowed to cover it.
G’Day! Ducksandeconomics,
Neat Post, Then, in a disturbing revelation, Senator Carl Levin mentioned on the floor that it was Obama himself who insisted on the ?indefinite detention? wording within just the NDAA. A single Forbes analyst notes, ?the legislation as written is fully way too imprecise.? Predictably, the Obama Administration dropped the veto risk and indicated that Obama would sign off on the NDAA the adhering to week.
On Saturday, New Yr?s Eve, Obama quietly signed the NDAA with the ?definitely pernicious? provision for arbitrary indefinite detention of any individual anywhere on the earth
“Oh, but I is not going to use it in my Administration” Funny how there are troops by the 1000’s heading to Israel now.
This sets a ghastly precedent for the Government part and Wall Street marionettes to additionally abuse human rights. Each long run president will now have this electric power. Thank you, Obama.
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