By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana
Irrespective of what happens at the UNHRC, there is one thing we should never forget; the arrogance and hypocrisy of our colonial master! The behaviour of the British Government is despicable. The UK has taken from the ‘nouveau-evil empire’––the US––the task of pressuring member nations of the UNHRC to vote against Sri Lanka! All this for the crime of defeating terrorism! Is this what is expected of the so-called leader of the Commonwealth?
It is a shame that the British representatives have not read Mathias Keittle’s excellent, well-reasoned piece “A German Analyst’s View on the Eelam War in Sri Lanka” which appeared in
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The media is full of information about the dangers of aflatoxins, increasing fear in the minds of public. Exposure to extremely small doses of aflatoxins of the order of micrograms per kilogram for long periods leads to liver cancer in humans and animals. Aflatoxins can also cause deaths within a few days if people are exposed to extremely high doses of it. In the world, there has been only one such recorded incident due to toxicity; 105 people died after consuming aflatoxin contaminated maize, during a famine in a neighbouring country. The toxic dose was around 20 mg per kilogram. That was in 1975.