Darusman was the child of a beast- Rajapakse Govt.

Silva's suicide bombers and the hotline

(May 22, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sixty-seven-year-old Hewa Koparage Mervyn Silva, Cabinet Minister in charge of Public Co-ordination and Public Affairs, dropped a bombshell whilst on camera a few days ago. He warned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Marzuki Darusman, chairman of his Advisory Panel that probed alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, that they should be careful.

Silva said he had a trained team of 25 suicide killers. That is not all. He said that the Chairman of the UN Panel, Indonesia's former Attorney General Darusman, was not born to human parents. He was the child of a beast.

Silva's outburst reminds one of the story of an American who had reportedly called a "suicide hotline" in California and told them he was depressed and on the verge of killing himself. These hotlines have been set up throughout the United States primarily to advise and dissuade would-be suiciders. But unfortunately for the guy, this particular hotline, so the story goes, had been outsourced to a call centre in Pakistan.

So, when the American said he was contemplating suicide, the Pakistani guy, probably with ties to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, had sounded overjoyed and asked the American: "but can you drive a truck?."

-Sunday Times