{"id":113314,"date":"2013-11-04T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=113314"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T22:31:50","slug":"commonwealth-apathy-over-sri-lanka-is-only-to-be-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/commonwealth-apathy-over-sri-lanka-is-only-to-be-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Apathy Over Sri Lanka Is Only To Be Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/priyamvadagopal\" rel=\"author\">Priyamvada Gopal<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_113315\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/commonwealth-apathy-over-sri-lanka-is-only-to-be-expected\/priya-gopal\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-113315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113315\" title=\"priya-gopal\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/priya-gopal.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/priya-gopal.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/priya-gopal-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-113315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Priyamvada Gopal<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The more interesting question is: what kind of international network would truly hold governments to account?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the Commonwealth summit approaches, the shadow foreign secretary,\u00a0Douglas Alexander, among others, has urged David Cameron to boycott the meeting\u00a0next week in Colombo, while the Canadian prime minister,\u00a0Stephen Harper, has withdrawn. At issue are the war crimes alleged to have been committed under the host government in Sri Lanka, for which there is mounting evidence. Thousands of Tamil civilians were killed during the bloody civil war. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is also accused of attacks on the press and violence against government critics. With the UN too\u00a0calling for an independent investigation, refused so far, it is certainly depressing that Commonwealth leaders show so little appetite for challenging his intransigence.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/nov\/03\/commonwealth-apathy-sri-lanka-boycott\">more<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in the Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":113315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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