Sri Lanka’s patriotic corporations rally

by admin
Mar 20, 2012

Giving the term ‘public-private partnership’ a new twist,

Sri Lanka’s leading corporations staged their own demonstration Tuesday against growing international pressure over accountability for mass atrocities in the final months of the island’s war.

See The Island’s report here.

“The cream of Sri Lanka’s private sector last evening thronged in their numbers, … around 5,000 people gathered … expressing solidarity in their clarion call for the United States to leave Sri Lanka alone,” the paper said.

The representatives of the corporations which gathered included: John Keells Holdings, Aitken Spence, Sri Lanka telecom, Mobitel, Lanka Bell, Dialog, Etisalat, Hilton Colombo, Mount Lavinia Hotel, Commercial Bank, Hatton National Bank and others.

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