TamilNet: 24.05.08 Shifts in world order alters dynamics of Sri Lanka’s conflict - paper

TamilNet: 24.05.08 Shifts in world order alters dynamics of Sri Lanka’s conflict - paper: "Whether Sri Lanka is or isn’t on the UN Human Rights Council is an irrelevancy as far as international dimensions of the island’s conflict are concerned, the Tamil Guardian newspaper argued this week. “Rather than a ‘universal’ principle, the concept of ‘human rights’ has, in actuality, served mainly as a tool for the West-led international community to (re)order the world,” the paper said. Meanwhile, the rise of new poles in the international system is proving a challenge for the West’s post-Cold War efforts to construct a liberal order, the newspaper said in another recent editorial."