On Sri
Lanka, Shots
of Shavendra
Silva &
Scalia,
US Supreme
Court Justice
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 26 –
On the eve of
a UN Human
Rights Council
presentation
by Sri Lanka,
some of the
specifics of
the “war
crimes
laundering”
campaign of
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Shavendra
Silva have
become more
clear.
Inner
City Press has
closely
covered
Shavendra
Silva's time
at the UN in
New York,
particularly
when he was
accepted as a
Senior Adviser
to
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon and
his Under
Secretary
General Herve
Ladsous on
Peacekeeping
Operations.
Ladsous
refused
to answer on
the propriety
of having as
an adviser a
person
who is
depicted in
Ban's own
report on Sri
Lanka as
engaged in war
crimes. Ban
told Inner
City Press, "it was the
member states
that decided."
Inner City
Press posed
questions to
Shavendra
Silva most
recently at a
farewell
reception for
another Deputy
Permanent
Representative
of an Asia
Group country
-- a country
that shortly
thereafter
appeared with
a Columbia
University
legitimated
"whitewash"
report for Ban
Ki-moon.
As a
footnote to
our report
yesterday on
attempts to
ban the film
"No Fire Zone:
Killing Fields
of Sri Lanka"
from the UN in
Geneva, we
mused on how
Shavendra
Silva managed
a photograph
with
US marines.
Now a
photograph of
Silva with
none other
than US
Supreme Court
Justice
Antonin Scalia
has surfaced.
For
our legal
readers: could
this lead to a
recusal in an
Alien Torts
Claims Act
case?
Scalia
was the February
23, 2013
awardee of the
US Marine
Corps
University
Foundation at
an event at
the Crystal
Gateway
Marriott
in Arlington,
Virginia. And
Silva took
this
photograph
with him.
So
was Silva's
speech on
“defeating
terrorism” to
or through
this US
Marine Corps
University
Foundation?
Footnote:
The
last “Killing
Fields of Sri
Lanka” film
was not
screened
inside the UN
in New York,
though Sri
Lanka's
Mission to the
UN including
Shavendra
Silva were
invited in to
present what
they called
their
rebuttal. Click
here for
coverage by
the Sri Lanka
Campaign.
This outrage reverberates
still.
Watch this
site.
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