Fox's Sri Lanka visit 'postponed'

Sally Chatterjee

Who does he think he is?

Sen C

It is in the interests of Dr. Liam Fox to think about the deadlock posed by these dictatorial regimes and how the human rights activists and diplomats thrive to have sanity in these chaotic regions.

The advocates of South Sudan referendum are going through hard time with the pro-Bashir Arab militia and goons.

Andrew

I hope DC sacks him and gives the job to David laws. Remove the spanner in the works and put a great talent to good use.

Tanuki

Just what are UKOGBANI's long-term political interests in Sri Lanka? In these times of fiscal stringency why is Fox even considering going there at the taxpayer's expense?

Herbert Thornton

These days anything that any Cabinet Minister says, whether at home or abroad, may "cause controversy" - but especially so when what he says consists of common sense.

This fear of "controversy" causes far too much hypocrisy and has caused the current panic among powerful people at the publication, by Wikileaks, of facts that have been merely passed on to it by others.

If Fox hails the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, it will, we should hope, be a sign that Truth need be less intimidated and have more courage to appear in public.

Nicholas

Hopefully he'll take a long hard look at the Sri Lankan Air Force, which has been expanding, when he is there. Who knows he might find a backbone he could borrow.

The Hunt.

victor jara 67

This man has no moral compass. The Sri Lankan government in April/May 2009 killed up to 30000 Tamils mostly civillans and many summarily executed.
We should be advocating bringing these people to the Hague on war crime charges rather than endorsing their regime.

Pat Gobi

He should not go to Sri Lanka, the state governs by war criminals. He should consider being a good defennce minister to the peace loving British people.

TrevorsDen

Seems to be a load of old bollocks here.

Tamil Tigers were a bunch of murderous separatist terrorists. The legitimate government supported by the great majority of peaceful citizens went to war against them. A fierce war and they won.

Taking a step back I seem to remember that we the allies in order to liberate France killed thousands of French citizens. The French thanked us for it.

To win the war we bombed Germany flat - I will not go into what the Russians did.

Ladies and gentlemen I am not perfect but I am not a bastard hypocrite. I see that the reward we (in the guise of the the Labour govt) get for keeping Kosovo independent was that its leader murders Serbs in order to harvest their organs. Perhaps you socialists can emote your happiness at what you did to the rest of us.

Frank P

Andrew

FFS desist from bigging up the queer dwarf; he's a crook. End of!

TrevorsDen

How is he a crook? Its legitimate to claim expenses for rented accommodation. He rented accommodation and he did.
If he had rented a flat on his own he would have cost the taxpayer more.

Your 'queer' ideas are best left to themselves Mr FrankP.

Gordon

Sorry he has been paid travel by SL Govt thru a charity in UK. Trevors Den the truth is LTTE long gone by the name of LTTE SL Govt Killed and executed 30k civilians. UK govt and opposition both doing great job in bringing this regime to the world light. So we do not want any Foxes there until SL Govt let the independent inquiry start their job on war crimes. Thanks David Cameron / David/ ED Milibands for taking a firm stand on this

Candidly

If what the Sri Lankan government did to defeat the Tamil Tigers was wrong, then what what the UK, USA & their allies did to defeat German Nazis & Japanese militarists was also wrong.

Why doesn't a Consevative government, the party of Churchill, want to admit that what the Sri Lankan government did was, overall & on balance, justified? The only answer that seems plausable is that it doesn't want to upset 300,000 people of Sri lankan Tamil origin now living in the UK. What a sad state Britain's foreign policy has now sunk to.