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Parliamentary elections will be a cakewalk for Rajapakse., Sri Lanka is succesfully made a leaderless opposition.
This is the latest in a series of ugly developments in Sri Lanka which, over the last three or four years as the country has slid to an authoritarian state under the chauvinist Rajapakse presidency. As with similar deals with African states, people’s Democratic Dictatorship of China is actively bankrolling the emergence of a new “People’s dictatorship” in Colombo that highlights the increasingly malign influence of China in global affairs.
Efforts to get a UN investigation into allegations of war crimes in the recent conflict are blocked by China and Sri Lanka’s other new friend, Russia which is in talks about a USD$300m arms deal with Colombo. For good measure China’s ally Iran is providing more soft loans and cheap oil.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100025491/chinas-malign-in...
Perhaps this latest political ugliness will be the moment when the world really wakes up to what’s happening in Sri Lanka