Quotes from World Updates:
"Are you going to punish [all the] citizens for that or the man who is responsible? Take me. Say that I violated all these human rights, killed people, right? Do you punish me, Mahinda Rajapaksa, or the innocent people of this country by sanctions, embargoes, travel advisories?"
Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, on winning the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. (LTTE)
"To the Arabs, Israeli settlements have sliced and diced up territory that once belonged to them, taking scarce resources like water and requiring special checkpoints that make ther daily lives a misery."
On the settling of Jewish populations in the occupied West Bank, Israel.
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