What:

1. As you know Professor Alston has said that the best option was for Sri Lanka to co-operate and invite in UN investigators as part of an independent inquiry

2. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/07/un.sri-lanka.video/

Why:

1. For any peace or reconciliation truth must prevail

2. Only diaspora has freely voice for justice and peace

Action: drop an email or place a call

1. Drop an email thanking and urging to pursue this cause until truth is revealed philip.alston@nyu.edu

For more on Prof, http://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?personID=19742

2.

3. Sample letters are attached for your convenience should you wish

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Dear Professor Alston,

Your decades long futile struggle to rein in the Sri Lankan government for its blatant record of human rights violations seems; at last, to pay dividends.

It is important in the name of justice, world order and deterrence that those institutions set up with such cost and publicity should be able to deal with crimes against humanity adequately. It is my fervent wish that you will succeed in your endeavour with wider support from like minded people.

Thank you for your invaluable time and effort towards the greater good of mankind.

Yours sincerely

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Dear Professor Alston,

On Sri Lanka, we must establish a commission to determine the nature and identify those responsible for human rights and humanitarian rights violations committed, and most particularly in May 2009. The panel must recommend measures that will put an end to impunity and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice and that the victims and their families are compensated.

Truly,

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Another Sample:

Dear Professor Alston,

Thanks for your unbiased and honest efforts, until now, on war crimes committed in Sri Lanka. We wish you will pursue this matter till Justice is delivered to the affected Tamils.

Tamils desperately need bold intervention from international community (particularly the West and Australia) to get out of the clutches of the real terrorists and enjoy at least the basic rights ensured on any one by the UN.

The real terrorists operating under the guise of democracy and carry out systematic ethnic cleansing must be punished.

All affected Tamils must be adequately compensated for their 60 years old sufferings.

Thanks & Regards

Aasaan

Edited January 9, 201015 yr by Aasaan

The full article: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/748404--walkom-we-need-a-new-strategy-on-terror#article

* Now Obama is under pressure to expand the war more forcefully into Yemen, the country where alleged Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is said to have been trained. If this happens, the precedents are ominous.

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First, terrorism itself must be demystified. It is not new. It is not unique to Islam, nor is it necessarily an existential threat. It is simply a very old tactic – stretching back to the Zealots of ancient Judea who assassinated both Roman occupation forces and suspected Jewish collaborators.

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These days, terrorism is associated with so-called non-state actors like Al Qaeda. But historically, most terror has been committed by states: The Romans themselves in Judea; the French revolutionaries who used the guillotine to remove rivals; the Soviet authorities who set secret police against their own citizens, the Argentine generals of the 1970s intent on "disappearing" their political opponents.

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In most cases, state terrorism is harder to combat then its non-state counterpart.

1. The international strategy for eliminating terrorism has failed, a new strategy is needed.

2. Every military action by the West creates only more terrorists.

3. The West's war against the Taliban of Afghanistan created the Taliban of Pakistan.

4. In most cases, the solutions to terror are political rather than military.

5. In 1930s and `40s, Britain fought a fierce campaign against Zionist terrorists in Palestine before, finally, agreeing to a Jewish state.that terrorism is theatre.

6. More North Americans die in road accidents each year than from terrorist attacks. Yet terrorists seem far scarier than cars

7. If terrorism is theatre, then anti-terrorism must be as well. A just solution to the dispute between Israel and Palestine would not satisfy Bin Laden, whose aims are more grandiose. But it would speak volumes to those tempted to support him.

The full article: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/748404--walkom-we-need-a-new-strategy-on-terror#article