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Hillary
Emails Have 28
On Sri Lanka,
IMF Intrigue
&
Rajapaksa
Call, PR &
RE
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS, June
30 -- Among
the Hillary
Clinton emails
released by
the US State
Department on
June 30 are 28
that mention
Sri Lanka,
where over
40,000
civilians were
killed in
2009.
The emails
start on May 4
of that year,
and mostly
finish on May
21, when
Hillary
Clinton was to
speak with
then-President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa.
Finally in
October 2009
there is talk
about media
and a letter
to Sri Lanka's
Permanent
Representative
to the UN, Palitha
Kohona (who
rented
Manhattan real
estate from
head UN
Correspondent,
as exposed by
Inner City
Press and now
the Free
UN Coalition
for Access).
Some
are entirely
redacted, like
on May 16,
2009 from
Gautam Rana.
But there is this,
on May 4,
2009, link
here:
From: Bums
Strider
To: H
Sent: Mon May
04 09:36:17
2009
Subject: Some
intel for
you...
This is about
Sri Lankan
Govt and the
Tigers...
I have a good
source.
This was
shared to me
at my and
Karen's Derby
Party
yesterday (can
you believe
the 50 to 1
odds winner?).
There was a
meeting held
with Geitner
asked for and
led by IMF...
They told him
you were
intruding into
his domain by
ordering/telling
IMF to suspend
funding to Sri
Lakan Govt.
UNCLASSIFIED
U.S.
Department of
State Case No.
F-2014-20439
Doc No.
C05761169
Date:
06/30/2015
My take is
that the
people on the
ground both
with World
Bank and IMF
believe the
Tigers need to
be completely
defeated and
any collateral
damage
inflicted on
private people
by SL govt in
process is
ok... They
also believe
Tigers are
better at
propaganda
than SL
govt...
I have no idea
what reality
is... I know
all about the
conflict
because
there's been
so much
written over
time but no
idea of
reality on
ground.
My point is
that IMF/World
Bank is hoping
to get Geitner
to intervene
and they
recently
played to his
sense of who
is US point
person on
IMF... So,
that's what I
know. I'll
keep my ears
open.
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