Mr. Ashley Willis

The debate on outsourcing - Our COE Rajiv Bhatia provides closing remarks at a CII Session on the subject where Mr. Ashley Willis, ex ambassador of the U.S.A. to India, made a presentation.

Harris County 4-H Ambassadors, left to right: Sam Webb, Channelview High School; Ginny Shewmake, St. Thomas Episcopal High School; Kyleigh Parker, Ross Sterling High School; Penny Garza, Klein ISD homeschooler; Ashley Willis, Klein High School; Jordan Davis, Klein High School; Joy Jackson, Jesse H. Jones High School; Kelly Jackson, La Porte High School; Kristin Avant, Tomball High School; Christopher Hanson, Elsik High School.
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The ambassadors to visit Commissioners Court were Kristin Avant, Tomball High School; Jordan Davis, Klein High School; Penny Garza, Klein ISD homeschooler; Chris Hansen, Elsik High School; Joy Jackson, Jesse H. Jones High School; Kelly Jackson, La Porte High School; Kyleigh Parker, Ross S. Sterling High School; Ginny Shewmake, St. Thomas Episcopal High School; Ashley Willis, Klein High School; and Sam Webb, Channelview High School.
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Precinct 4 4-H Ambassadors, left to right: Ashley Willis, Klein High School; Commissioner Jerry Eversole, Penny Garza, Klein ISD Homeschooler; and Jordan Davis, Klein High School.
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Prior to the court session, Harris County Precinct 4 Commissioner Jerry Eversole presented three Precinct 4 Ambassadors: Ashley Willis, Jordan Davis, and Penny Garza, with a token of appreciation, and encouraged them to continue their participation in the Ambassador Program.

Ambassador Ashley Willis reinforced the warning by stating there were "credible reports" that the LTTE was "engaged in activities that could jeopardise the recent ceasefire agreement".He cited continuing recruitment, the abduction of children, kidnappings and extortion, re-supply operations and the smuggling of weapons.In other words, if the LTTE stepped out of line in any way, it would endanger the ceasefire and risk being dealt with as a "terrorist organisation".

Rocca blandly told the press: "General Ghormely is here to talk about military cooperation ranging from operating C-130s (Hercules aircraft) and other humanitarian matters."It was clear that Ghormely, who commands the Marine Expeditionary Brigade, had more than humanitarian aid on his mind.As well as discussions with his Sri Lankan counterparts, he visited Trincomalee, a key strategic harbour on the north-east coast.

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As for the LTTE, its response to the implied threats of Rocca and Willis was to assure Washington once again that it will obediently implement the conditions of the ceasefire.

Sri Lanka's Defense Minister Thilak Marapone contradicted Colombo's US Ambassador Ashley Willis, United Nation's Children's Fund UNICEF, the BBC online News Service, the Tamil human rights group, Tamil Rights, organization of Tamil academics like UTHRJ and the government's own coalition partner the Muslim Congress and said there was no evidence that the terrorist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was doing any thing in breach of the MOU signed between his leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.

The Defense Minister called the allegations against the terrorist group as unconfirmed gossip and said there was no definitive evidence that the terrorist group was actually committing the offense in an interview broadcast live by the Sandeshaya, the Sinhalese service of the BBC.

Few hours before Marapone's contradiction, a statement issued by the US ambassador in Colombo said, ""We have credible reports that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are engaged in activities that could jeopardize the recent indefinite ceasefire accord.In the current international context in which terrorism is being condemned in more and more countries, the LTTE should be especially vigilant about observing the terms of the ceasefire accord.If it does not, it will only increase its international isolation."

The Walter Mitty antics of United States Ambassador Mr Ashley Willis in Jaffna on 7 March were hilarious.He self-aggrandised by challenging the Tamil National Liberation Movement, led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE); for he asserted arrogantly: "if the LTTE is still fighting for Tamil Eelam, please accept that that goal cannot be achieved", as if he had the power to change the course of history.

He sabre-rattled over human rights without breathing a word about the grotesque Chemmani mass graves of Tamils a few kilometres from where he stood.He pompously flaunted the Latin phrase, "E Pluribus Unum," on the Great Seal of the United States; and helpfully translated it as "Out of Many, One" (The Island, 9/Mar/01).Evidently he is blissfully unaware, as most Americans hopelessly are, that the remnants of the few surviving Native American nations are not impressed by that blood-soaked hypocritical phrase.For he represents a country that successfully carried out between 1860s and 1910s the most extensive and comprehensive genocide in history: the US Government exterminated numerous Native American nations, consisting of populations numbering, at a conservative estimate, at least ten million.

The Walter Mitty antics of United States Ambassador Mr Ashley Willis in Jaffna on 7 March were hilarious.He self-aggrandised by challenging the Tamil National Liberation Movement, led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE); for he asserted arrogantly: "if the LTTE is still fighting for Tamil Eelam, please accept that that goal cannot be achieved", as if he had the power to change the course of history.He sabre-rattled over human rights without breathing a word about the grotesque Chemmani mass graves of Tamils a few kilometres from where he stood.He pompously flaunted the Latin phrase, "E Pluribus Unum," on the Great Seal of the United States; and helpfully translated it as "Out of Many, One" (The Island, 9/Mar/01).Evidently he is blissfully unaware, as most Americans hopelessly are, that the remnants of the few surviving Native American nations are not impressed by that blood-soaked hypocritical phrase.For he represents a country that successfully carried out between 1860s and 1910s the most extensive and comprehensive genocide in history: the US Government exterminated numerous Native American nations, consisting of populations numbering, at a conservative estimate, at least ten million.