Scavenges of the Capitalist Press!

News about Sri Lanka is headlines again in the International English media, one year after the crisis in Sri Lanka has passed. This time it is not about bombs going off in public transport, Ministers being assassinated, poverty stricken farmers being killed in isolated villages, Tamils being killed for allegedly spying for the Government etc.: but for 'war crimes committed' supposedly at the last stages of the war.

For all that talk about 'media freedom' in the West, the Western media is proving again and again that they are very much a part of the world capitalist agenda. Good news about the third world is bad news for them. They need to depict a picture of conflicts, famines, fanaticism, corruption, suppression, bad governance and nepotism when they report about the rest of the world. That way they try to make up a case as to why these countries cannot develop. It is a subtle way of hiding the real facts about 'strong milking the weak' in modern day world trade and economy. This strategy also hide the putrefied past of these rich countries where they amassed their wealth by colonizing weaker countries and practicing slave trade for decades.

Tragic colonial legacy

If we are to study the causes of poverty in these poorest countries in the world it is a fact that almost all of them have had either a tragic colonial legacy (India, Ceylon) or a history of slavery (Africa) or exploitation in trade (China). They remain poor because those who exploited them became rich at their expense and once the scales are tilted it is difficult to re-tilt them for some time. But the capitalist press is droning all the time that those countries are poor because they do not have proper 'human rights', 'transparency in governance', 'freedom of speech' etc. etc. Hence they need to keep those countries in the dirt and like scavengers they dig out the muck to report and see nothing good about their efforts to resuscitate their countries. Their role is to create a world opinion to suit the agenda of their capitalist leaders.

'Now that Sri Lanka has come out of their crisis, we must not allow them time to regroup and reconcile. We must charge them for war crimes and try to keep the crisis alive'.

The Sri Lankan Government has quite appropriately appointed a Commission to enquire in to the cause of this whole conflict that cost the country 100,000 lives and US$ 25 billion worth of collateral but this self styled International press is not impressed with that. They want a commission only for the 'last stages of the war' because they are not happy with the 'way we have ended it'. Does that mean that they were happily watching and reporting us all this while when we were embroiled in it? The international community is not worried about how this conflict started and the misery it created while it was on, but they are very worried that we ended it!

The Western press has been 'so free' in their gross unfairness towards the rest of the world for the past 60 years since this new world order. For instance, the media in the West went in to raptures about the Monika Lewinsky affair during the Clinton Presidency. They do not want their President to abuse his secretary even though the relationship had no impact on the discharge of his duties. But then when President Bush invaded Iraq with a false charge of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' backed by seemingly concocted evidence and then caused the death of thousands of Iraqis, the virtuous western media chose to exercise their freedom by being silent.

Western media

The Western media has been so 'democratic' towards the rest of the world that they never believe what the democratically elected government of a country says about the country's affairs. They either project what the opposition says as the gospel or go in search of disgruntled elements who have some score to settle with the Government elect. In the case of Sri Lanka the western media's 'reliable source' for the past 30 years has been the news dished out by Tamil net, the propaganda arm of the Tigers. In the Tiger movement the only place for dissent is death. They were the 'sole representative' in everything and democracy in the LTTE is for those who wished to get their hands chopped off. But with such anti democratic inclinations and with such practices of good governance, freedom of speech, and human rights, the Tiger movement and their affiliated propaganda net works have been the most 'reliable source of information' for the western media. How tragic?

Therefore, when these western media organizations that propped up a demagogue whose only ambition was to create a fascist state in Sri Lanka, express their concern about violation of human rights in this country, are we expected to believe them? It appears that this chorus of 'human rights violations' against the Government is orchestrated with the ultimate aim of achieving an international foothold in the country. The irony is that the International community and the media organisations have felt the necessity for this now than ever before because since Prabhakaran's death there is nobody in this country to carry out their insidious agenda. Hence it appears that Sri Lanka has committed a 'war crime' by overcoming a demagogue who created death and destruction in this country for 34 years!

Long live Western media ethics!!!

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