Sri Lanka - The Forgotten Atrocity

Updated on Thursday, July 7, 2011 at 5:46PM by Daniel James

Some are calling it genocide, others are calling it the systematic slaughtering of thousands of innocent men, women and children and others are calling a contravention of the rules of war.

Whatever happened in Sri Lanka during the final brutal days of its long and bloody civil war, it is plainly clear that there are serious questions that need to be asked of the current Sri Lankan leadership by the international community.

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The Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard has now been in office for 12 months, a year that can only be described as turbulent at best. After scraping back into government, with the help of Independent and Green Members of Parliament at November’s federal election that has forced Labor into minority government the Australian political landscape is almost unrecognisable.

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Libya/Syria? Who cares? The Congressman has a Penis.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT TRUMPING

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