The UN and the emerging world order

For 34 years the Sri Lankan population meandered along with no hope in life. Bombs were exploding in public transport and in communal facilities targeting innocent civilians. Remote villages, eking out a precarious living were ferociously wiped out with unmitigated cruelty.

The country's economic epicenters, symbols of culture and tradition, places sacred to religion, were all continuously targeted in a deliberate attempt to blink the country out of existence.

The country's leaders in a bid to salvage the nation negotiated with armed terrorist who perpetrated this mayhem offering them concessions. In 1982 District Councils were offered; in 1987 Provincial Councils were offered; in 2000 a Union of Regions were offered; in 2002 a de-facto area of control was bestowed.

But nothing worked and with every offer the peace became the casualty and terrorism grew in leaps and bounds.

Guidance from ex-colonial master?

Most of the time we looked to the west, our ex-colonial masters, for guidance as their language and culture has influenced us for centuries. Yet they gave us nothing more than international human rights paradigms when all what we needed was a way out of subversion mayhem. They passed strictures on us lacking in empathy of our difficulties that stem from the threat of anarchy and racialism.

They not only acted as if oblivious to the reality that the country's democratically elected Government was fighting fascism but also aided and abetted organizations that contributed to terrorism in Sri lanka, in their own countries.

The human rights organizations and the NGO's funded by the west targeted only the Government of Sri Lanka disregarding the fact that presence of subversion was the primary cause that prevented accountability on human rights violations. When we requested arms for our protection and trade for our sustenance they threw at us embargos and sanctions. Even when the only options before us were to 'either destroy or be destroyed by terrorism' the west admonished us against resorting to legitimate military action in self defense.

Possibility within

The country was on the verge of being declared a failed state and we were rich with all the 'international solutions' but poor by the absence of peace. The Norwegians were extremely busy dismembering this country in the name of 'lasting peace'. All this while the Tamil Diaspora (a misnomer for those who left the country in search of better facilities in the west) and the Tamil militants were acting on the dictates of Leon Uirise's 'Exodus' enthused by the possibility of creating an Israel type amorphous state within Sri Lanka which could eventually make up for the absence of a Tamil country in the world map (Narayan Swamy -Inside Illusive Mind).

Voting against terrorism

The majority in this country were brainwashed to believe that aggression of the armed Tamil groups was a nemesis of unspecified grievances obfuscating the fact that it was a result of Tamil nationalism's reluctance to renounce their colonial privileges in the post independent Ceylon. Calculated and contrived distortions of facts were propagated to the world and within the country in subtle and sophisticated ways to convince that 'grievances' were the monopoly of the aggressor while the majority who suffered under the colonial York for 443 years and whose youth rebelled twice in a twenty year space, are not entitled to grievance by virtue of they being the majority. Thus the more the country gave in to 'Tamil grievances' the more peace and harmony in the country's everyday life became illusive.

Now by a quirk of fate, and by fighting with our backs to the wall, we have been able to overcome the menace of terror that dictated the affair of this country for 34 years. The people are relieved and they now get about their lives with renewed vigor and hope.

The country has been able to come through this period with all our democratic institutions intact and people have now voted back the Government that defeated terrorism, disregarding shortcoming, with a 60 percent mandate. Even hose who voted against the Government are agreeable on one point and that is that the eradication of terrorism is the best thing that happened to this country since independence.

It is against such a backdrop of events in Sri Lanka that the UN, the de-facto World Government that is expected to uphold world peace and universal paradigms on world civilization, insist on appointing a Commission to inquire in to the allegation that '7000 civilians have been killed by Government forces in a no fire zone during the last stage of the conflict'.

The reality however is that 280,000 civilians crossed over to the Government side voluntarily during this last stage and they would not have done so if the Government troops were killing civilians as alleged. The paradox here however is why the UN is interested in an untenable allegation of 7000 deaths at the last stages when the conflict has taken 100,000 lives during its 34 years and also when the Sri Lanka Government has appointed a Truth Commission to fathom the reasons that caused the conflict with the view of avoiding a repetition.

Alleged atrocities

Further, why this Commission against the present Government that ended that period of misery while for 34 years in Sri Lanka it was not human rights but violators of human rights that reigned mainly due to the inability the authorities to account for such violations?

Does all this infer that the UN is dismayed with the Government for ending 34 year terror? How credible could this move by the UN be, when it has not advocated such moves against Britain for alleged atrocities in Dresden and against US for the holocaust in Japan.

During the last stage of World war II. What about three million Vietnamese killed by the US forces in the name of human rights and democracy? Does all this point to an emerging danger that UN has now become a hostage of ex -colonial powers who are now masquerading as arbiters of universal paradigms on modern world civilization.

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