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LankaWeb – India wants Sri Lanka to hold early election to provincial councils: Jaishankar

Posted on April 20th, 2021 Courtesy Adaderana India supports the call of international community for the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its commitments on devolution of political authority including through early holding of elections to provincial councils, according to S. Jaishankar, India’s External Affairs Minister. This also covers the commitment of ensuring that all the provincial councils are able to operate effectively in accordance with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, Dr. Jaishankar has stated in his letter sent recently to the AIADMK’s Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) M. Thambi Durai. The Minister’s reply was in the context of the AIADMK leader raising the Sri Lankan Tamil issue in the Rajya Sabha last month in the context of a resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Xinhua Commentary: Racism is suffocating U S - World News

2021-04-19 12:36:09 GMT2021-04-19 20:36:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) I can t breathe, moaned George Floyd in distress, moments before he died handcuffed, with his neck pinned to the ground under a U.S. police officer s knee. Floyd s last words have become the voice of protesters among his fellow African Americans and other minority groups who were once again calling for an end to generations of suffering under the U.S. systematic racism. Almost a year has passed since the black man s death ignited waves of protests against police brutality and racial injustice, yet as a country so entrenched in its original sin of racism, the United States can hardly act for a real change.

ANALYSIS: Racism in the US deeply rooted

The demonstrators are seen with their signs of Stop Asian Hate in New York on April 4, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) Following the outbreak of the COVID-19, Asian Americans have become targets of racial discrimination, with significant rise of hate crimes. According to US credible sources, the number of anti-Asian American hate crime cases increased by 150% in 2020, and in particular, New York City increased even by 833%, compared with the previous year. The emergence of hate crimes has sparked an unprecedented wave of a national-wide demonstration by Asian Americans. On April 4th, an anti-Asian hate march took place in New York, with tens of thousands of people taking part. It is the first demonstration on a massive scale held by Asian Americans in 200 years of history.

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