Stewart Bell, National PostPublished: Friday, May 01, 2009
With the Tamil Tiger rebels besieged and apparently near collapse after a quarter-century of civil war, the Sri Lankan press have not been kind to nations appealing for a ceasefire.
"Get your humanitarian paws off my country," read a headline this week, while a columnist complained about interference by "salmon-eating" countries and an editorial decried "hoity-toity foreign do-gooders."
Bev Oda, Canada's Minister of International Cooperation, is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on Sunday to meet local officials and assess the country's humanitarian needs, her office said yesterday.
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