Fattened cows are coming home

The cliques that got plumped on lavish LTTE funding, rewards, jaunts and even Swiss bank accounts are surfacing in droves. Government dossiers on these Faustian alliances that defamed Sri Lanka are getting thicker by the hour as revelations by captured Tiger cadres and international financiers expose the magnitude of their ravenous acts fraught with inevitable incarceration. The fat cows fattened by LTTE largesse are coming home.

For starters, their boastful coup de grace to undermine Lanka’s heroic triumph over LTTE terror just got stopped at the starting blocks. The so-called damning indictment by a tell-all report to US Congress purportedly by Assistant Secretary Robert Blake did not arrive. Like the defunct Channel 4 video, an out and out hoax packed with mythical fragments of faked documentation, similar sinister attempts to indict Sri Lanka will only incinerate the perpetrators.

War well-documented

The terror war in Sri Lanka was fought within areas extending to thousands of square miles and reported exhaustively for 25 years hitting the headlines in mainstream newspapers, radio and TV broadcasts. The tactics of both the LTTE and Security Forces were subjects of Sri Lanka’s political commentators, the central theme of national elections that debated alleged secret pacts and alliances in great detail. War paraphernalia was graphically described.

Fake documentation twisting the truth. File photo

Those with the temerity to implicate so-called incidents of wrong doing for their own illegitimate purposes are doomed due to the exposure war received for nearly three decades. Post-war documentation of pre-war events are a heading nowhere. Some are trying to get Robert Blake to project their hidden agendas. There is no request by the US taxpayers to initiate any further documentation of what happened during the past 25 years. Colombo US embassy pronouncements, including those by John Burns, Robert Blake and others that came out periodically on the war were a part of the historical records of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has nothing to hide and faced the situation reports squarely, some of them were often in adversarial terms, like the concocted daily blasts from the LTTE media outlets.

Grave-diggers busy

Alarmed and totally paranoid that the criminality of their actions are catching up with them, subversive elements that fed the underground LTTE fifth columnists in Washington, Norway, London and elsewhere are now trying to cook up fabricated evidence to implicate Sri Lanka in a manner similar to the doomed Channel 4 fiasco. Subversion is nothing less than treason when it undermined the national security of Sri Lanka.

Yet the doctored video implanted on Channel 4 had aroused an immediate comment from Norway, a rushed denouncement of Sri Lanka. The Government’s cool reaction was quotable calling it “baseless comments by the Norwegian Minister against a friendly government.” It went on to state that “it is unbecoming of Minister Erick Solheim to attribute blame on alleged atrocities, contained in an unsubstantiated video footage, without any recourse to an exchange of views and total disregard to the position of the Government on the issues in question.

What became crystal clear from the reams of evidence in defence archives was that LTTE could not have run its arms procurement ring and international disinformation machinations without receiving support from influential sections of the international community and the local underground grave diggers of Dickens’ genre debunking everything Sri Lankan. Those exceeded the levels of dissension permitted in a democracy, but were calculated acts of sabotage.

The Diaspora in the US knew of the FBI investigation unearthing the LTTE’s attempt to bribe a senior US State Department official with one million US dollars. It led to the arrest and prosecution of a retired Marine General of an Asian country. We knew that a key ex-official of the Amnesty International as well as top US justice official had represented the LTTE at international forums. The self-styled human rights activists were throwing their support behind the proscribed macabre LTTE terrorist, it is now coming into the open.

More revelations

Last week, a Daily News report indicated that interrogation of Kumaran Pathmanathan aka ‘KP’ by Sri Lankan intelligence services had helped the Government to identify some of those directly involved with the LTTE as well as Sri Lankan officials, who benefited from the so-called peace process.

Singapore former Reform Party man who was a powerful committee member of the party Balraj Naidu has been arrested and produced in Court for an extradition hearing over an alleged arms deal with the LTTE. Naidu was arrested on a warrant and produced in Courts, the Singapore Strait Times stated. He was arrested at his home and brought to Court on September 29 for a brief Court appearance. His lawyers and family were present in Court. He is wanted by the United States Government on two terrorism related charges. He is also wanted by the US for allegedly brokering arms deals with the LTTE.

The modus operandi was blatantly obvious. Some politicians and officials were induced by foreign jaunts and special grants for projects. As recently as last month there were hosts of so-called activists arriving in Washington D.C. Some Norwegians were reportedly in the pay of the LTTE. It is now a reality that everyone connected with the disinformation campaign will face justice sooner or later.

High incidence of disclosure of violations against Sri Lanka by the local whining wimps had caused them to pour out long explanations why and how the Government should ignore the expressions of personal stands by them on certain issues. Even, the routine precautionary measures to stem Tiger residuary activists from regrouping have vexed these saboteurs. A short delay at an inter section in Colombo get them riled as if their egos had been deflated beyond repair.

The writing is on the wall and more often in the pages of the morning newspapers and web sites of how guilt-ridden plunderers were trying to escape the long arm of the law. Judging by what is looming for the peace-activists in tigers’ clothing, they seemed unable to let go of the Tiger’s tail.