BACK DOWN? NOT THIS PRESIDENT

Sri Lanka ’s position is clear. The U.N Human Rights Council resolution was intrusive, and moreover was bad for the U.N system. More of this agenda driven behaviour, said Sri Lanka’s envoy to the 22nd UNHRC sessions, would result in the UNHRC facing the same fate as the now defunct UN Human Rights Commission that preceded it.

There was nothing new happening in Geneva of course. It was a campaign of vilification that was organized subtly as a human rights oversight effort for the protection of the Sri Lankan people. In short, this was a repetition of 2012.

India played a dual role, being both sympathetic to Sri Lanka’s cause while being against Sri Lanka’s cause, and this piece of acrobatic contortionism had to be carried out mainly due to domestic political compulsions for which there must be a measure of empathy expressed towards the hapless Indians.

It cannot be forgotten that Geneva 2012 and 2013 was a well organized campaign to make Sri Lanka pay for eliminating the terrorist Prabhakaran and his band of despicable brigands.

It is recalled that when the humanitarian operation for the rescue of civilians held hostage by the LTTE took place, and when the Prabhakaran was holed out in a thin strip of land in the Mullaithivu district, we were already being told by the Jehan Pereras here and their clones abroad that if there is a continued effort to rescue the civilians, the regime will eventually face charges of having intentionally inflicted civilian casualties.

How did these people who cautioned the Sri Lankan regime know the shape of the future?

It is for the simple reason that there was an organized, premeditated plan B, which was to cede the territory that the LTTE wanted to carve out as a separate state from the rest of the contiguous Sri Lankan land mass by other means, if Prabhakaran was eliminated in May 2009.

The pundits tell us now that if certain things are done, such as devolving power and implementing the LLRC recommendations in full, the magic-bullet would have been found to stave off the so-called international pressure on Sri Lanka, which of course is not international pressure at all but a political campaign led by the resource hungry power bloc that buys political allegiances among U.N member states.

The fact that the country is constantly advised that there is a magic-bullet that will silence the self appointed global sentinels is a sign that the end-game is not to ensure human rights, but to drive the Sri Lankan domestic political agenda from outside our shores, to deliver what could not be achieved by the LTTE by means of war.

If there is a respectable and credible call by these global forces, so named, to push Sri Lanka towards an independent war crimes investigation, how is it that there is a magic-bullet in the form of implementing the 13th amendment, that will stave of all ‘international’ pressures?

It’s a clear indication as any that this campaign has nothing to do with war crimes investigations.

One thing is certain. Sri Lanka’s friends have been the no-nonsense types of allies that are needed when the doctrine of Might is Right operates against one country. Some of the local and international know-it-alls writing on the U.S sponsored resolution are busy giving out the impression that Sri Lanka has been playing truant, and has been severely rapped on the knuckles by the well behaved boys of the global club of nations.

If that was to be believed, China would have to be considered a potty little satrapy in the global scheme of things – and Russia, worse. Obviously, the majority of humanity is on Sri Lanka’s side here, if numbers were to be counted beginning from the fact that every one in four persons on this planet is a Chinese.

It will take far more than petty skullduggery and pipsqueak comment and analysis to get THIS President of this country, to back down. One thing is certain -- he is not about to hand over Eelam for which the blood of our warriors was spilt, because some resource hungry neo-liberals and neo-cons want it to happen. Neither will he ever compromise the very same gallant men and women, who fought to keep his country, this country -- our country -- in one piece.