US misusing UN mandate - Senior Minister
Disna MUDALIGE
The United States is misusing the UN mandate to hide the real
intentions behind the Libyan attack, said Scientific Affairs Senior
Minister Prof Tissa Vitarana addressing a Lanka Sama Samaja Party press
conference held yesterday.
He said that this incident should be a warning to Sri Lanka not to
fall for the "accountability" trap that the UN is striving to spring on
the Government for alleged human rights violations during the final
stage of the war against the LTTE.
He observed that the US intention is to ensure continued access to
Libyan- oil at more favourable terms through a US puppet regime which
could be the ultimate result of the people's uprising in Libya. He noted
that the Libyan situation has enabled the US to intervene on the basis
of the "right to protect".
The Senior Minister also pointed out that the US is ignoring the
harsh crackdown on the people's uprisings by the regimes in Yemen, Saudi
Arabia and Bahrain.
"The Yemeni-regime is assisting in the fight against Al-Qaeda and US
bases are located in Bahrain.
"The US also fears that a Shiite regime in Bahrain would be friendly
to Shiite Iran.
"It is clear that they are preparing the ground for intervention in
Iran, by getting the UN Human Rights Council to appoint a special
investigator to look into alleged human rights abuses in Iran," he
noted.
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