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WESTMINSTER magistrates’ court has revoked an arrest warrant for a Sri Lankan army officer just days after it was issued, in what may become a major diplomatic row.
On Monday, the court convicted Brigadier Priyanka Fernando in absentia of public order offences he committed while stationed in London as a military attache at the Sri Lankan embassy.
The soldier was caught on camera repeatedly making slit-throat gestures at Tamil protesters outside the high commission last year, causing them “harassment, alarm and distress.”
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
