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 OUR FRIENDS WERE RIGHT

The post-mortems are in, and we are told that our friends who voted with us in Geneva are misguided. Those who are of this view could ask themselves whether they can in good conscience say that the U.S and E.U led pressure on Sri Lanka is more likely to retard conflict and confrontation in this country, or aggravate it?

This forced process of post-war Kumbaya singing is in fact aggravating tensions in Sri Lanka, and pitting people and ethnicities against each other.

That is why the stand of our friends from diverse continents can be taken as being principled. The Kumbaya singing is not bringing people together – it’s keeping them apart. It’s prolonging a crisis whose natural time-run is at an end.

But this has always been the ugly face of foreign interference. It was how it happened during the so-called war, before 2009.

Trumped up issues were magnified and projected as those of enormous consequence, a case in point being the P-TOMS arrangement for instance, that proposed a post-tsunami power sharing structure ostensibly for the purposes of tsunami relief. Nobody talks about P-TOMS now as it has become obvious with time that an interim arrangement with the Tamil Tigers for tsunami relief would have complicated rather than ameliorated the situation.

The dynamic was the same when various interested parties recommended negotiations with Prabhakaran and his Killinochchi brigands. It was reasoned that anything other than negotiations would result in a major calamity as the Sri Lankan forces, we were constantly told, had no capability of defeating a guerrilla outfit that engaged in asymmetrical warfare.

Routing a motley outfit of vicious terrorists proved to be relatively simple however, after the necessary application was shown by the political and military establishments in unison.

Today the columnists and the international experts tell us that calamity hides around the corner, if the medication prescribed for the country is not administered.

Déjà vu – if anything is certain, it’s that we have been here before. It is an almost exact repeat of the wartime tactic of keeping the cauldron on the boil through the device of this bogey or that. No P-TOMS spells disaster, they said. No negotiations with Prabhakaran is assured disaster, they advised.

Now they say ‘no LLRC’ is calamity, ‘no independent investigation’ means Armageddon. The more shrill and banshee sounding the cry the more it is assured that the advice is not sincere or well meaning, as past experience tells us.

But the era of armed confrontation ended with a thorough defeat for the scare mongers and the Megaphone Cassandras. This seems to have rankled them to the bone. Sri Lanka has to be mindful of the fact that the real importance of the issues being talked of are in inverse proportion to the decibel level of the sounds being made.

This time the experts say that their prescriptions come with the official stamp of the majority of the world’s countries. It ’s true that P-TOMS was not prescribed by the UN Human Rights Council, and the LLRC is. But the principle of scare mongering through the device of a slogan is essentially the same, be it P-TOMS or LLRC or anything else. In the end, ‘implement your own LLRC’, or ‘conduct a credible investigation’, are all slogans.

They are slogans all the more, because there is no commitment in those quarters that make so much noise about the ‘suffering people of Sri Lanka’ to better our lot by the slightest.

In this context, it’s best to stick to our guns as the President does. He is a past-master at calling this huge bluff by the busybody do-gooder gang of the global club that do not care about Sri Lankans because normally they would have trouble locating Sri Lanka on the map.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The political establishment needs to be aware of the repeat performance of the international U.N theatre group, their drama being directed and produced by you know who that leads the cast. It is worth expanding on this subject in editorials to follow, but for the moment, let us eschew the repeat P-TOM performance, and remember that this country is run by none other than her people’s elected government …
 

UN, a tool of Western colonialism

Professor Nalin Kumara De Silva is a well known analyst and theoretical physicist who has expressed his candid views on many controversial issues ranging from the Arsenic issue to terrorism. An opponent of what he calls Western cultural dominance, Professor Silva says that members of the Tamil community do not have any problem merely because of being Tamil. He insisted that there should be cultural interaction between the Sinhala and Tamil communities.

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Sri Lanka Rights Watch

Civil Rights and sincerity

In the last column in this series, I will look at the Civil Rights Movement, which was founded in 1971. In discussing its contribution to Rights, and the manner in which Rights can be most productively promoted, I will also talk about one of its founding members, Bishop Lakshman Wickremesinghe, whose 86th birthday it would have been today.

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