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UNHRC – PET POODLE OF THE WEST



Some of the Northern civilians who escaped from the clutches of the LTTE

The Human Rights Commission in Geneva is a tool to unreasonably punish countries that do not tow the US line and act with a sense of self respect. A British Professor of International Law said of the Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), “the Commission lost its integrity and direction over time with much of its membership decisions, power and focus coming to be fuelled by disreputable goals, rather than motivated by the aim of promoting, protecting and advancing human rights”.

This is a clear reflection of the integrity of its Head, the High Commissioner. The UNHRC has a very pliable High Commissioner in Navanethem Pillay, a Tamil, who acts in a completely partial manner, thus bringing the whole Commission to disrepute, by catering to her personal agenda.

In our Tamil LTTE problem, she was duty bound to hold the scales even. Has she done so, or has she brazenly tilted the scales in favour of the Tamil LTTE, and the Tamil LTTE Diaspora? In the US resolution against Sri Lanka, she should have been the last person to be entrusted with overseeing powers. She herself should have declined this role, as she, right through SL’s conflict with the Tigers, expressed completely partial views. The tragedy is that Pillay has secured a further two year term by acclamation after Ban Ki Moon said he wants to keep Pillay in this high profile office. This is perhaps the wish of the Western powers.

Western countries

Have the Western countries who moved the previous resolution in March 2012 against SL transgressed International Law and the Laws of their own countries by tendering “MATERIAL SUPPORT” to the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora, and whether these “holier than thou” people should be themselves charged for WAR CRIMES, has to be examined. On May 27, 2012, a NATO air strike killed eight members of the same family – Mohamed Safeek, his wife and six children.

What kind of pilots do NATO have that they are unable to do pinpoint precision bombing? SL pilots did pinpoint bombing on precise targets. With all these Human Rights violations by NATO and Western Forces, what do we have from Navi Pillay – not as much as a condemnation! Is this the type of HR Commissioner the world body should have? Should not Pillay voluntarily resign for complete partiality? She is unable to act against the Western powers, as this may cost her job. Thereafter US drones kill hundreds of innocents in Afghanistan. As regards all those atrocities by the West Navi Pillay has been strangely mute, thereby not risking her job.

LTTE Diaspora


Ban Ki Moon

USA and their poodles (the Western countries), have been instigating and supplying weapons to the rebels to unleash violence in Syria. They encouraged rebels in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Iraq. Is this not MATERIAL SUPPORT? Should not those in the Obama administration be brought before a War Crimes Tribunal?

While all these countries were boiling, thanks to the West, what did Pillay do? She has been the High Commissioner when all these atrocities occurred. When innocents are being slaughtered, has she raised as much as a whimper? Then why did she side the LTTE and a minuscule LTTE Diaspora? Is it because she is from the same ethnicity and is under obligation to them for more ways than one? Should this type of partial Head, continue in office merely because she is viewed with favour by the West, who are themselves under obligation to the LTTE Diaspora.

Has Pillay or the Western countries uttered a word of praise for our Forces, who in the colossal Human Rights operation in 2009, SAVED the lives of THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND INNOCENT TAMILS, by putting their own lives in harms way? After 300,000 innocent Tamils were saved from the marauding LTTE, they were fed, clothed, sheltered and medicated. Our Forces saw to it that there was no outbreak of cholera and other deadly diseases. Their diaspora did not spend a cent for their welfare! Is this the HR Commissioner who is considered impartial? Has not the UNHRC been established for the greater good of ALL countries, big or small?

HR violations


Navi Pillay

Hillary Clinton

Thomas Fleming a reputed writer says, “Hillary Clinton never heard a shot fired in anger, but they sleep quietly after ordering the death of Iraqis, Serbs, Libyans, and Pakistanis, knowing that their God and the New York Times are on their side.” It is hilarious that Clinton and the US have the gumption to condemn HR violation in Sri Lanka, when they themselves violate these with a vengeance!

What the Western countries cannot stomach is that Sri Lanka has eradicated terrorism, while they have not even contained it.

Therefore out of spite, the present HR Council, ably assisted by the Western countries are attempting to re-introduce terrorism in Sri Lanka, by deviously calling it HR violations; whereas all what Sri Lanka did was eradicate the world’s worst (admitted by the USA) terrorist organization. Why are they blindly high-fiving the LTTE Diaspora? Isn’t it crystal clear that what they are attempting is a regime change, in order to achieve their objective – a separate state to control?

It is timely that we take the initiative to enlist the support of most of the 193 member countries, to condemn the USA and other Western countries for resorting to bullying tactics. Today it will be Sri Lanka, tomorrow it will be another country. The Western powers should not be permitted to use the UNHRC to achieve their agenda. When Navi Pillay and Hillary Clinton’s poodle Robert Blake, kept rattling off that 40,000 Tamil refugees were killed during the last months of the war, did they pause to think, or pose the question to the international community:-

* Can the SL Forces kill 40,000 Tamils and make their bodies disappear into thin air?

* Where are the bodies?

* Where the graves?

* Where are the incinerators?

There was no denying even by the Western countries, that the SL Forces had saved the lives of 300,000 refugees who were being kept as human shields for the protection of the LTTE, from the advancing Forces. They were kept like cattle, moved from place to place, without food and water.

*Has she considered whether 300,000 of the self same refugees would have run for protection to the side of the Army, if this Army had killed 40,000 of their own herd?

We do not say that Pillay is an intellectual mediocrity. Why did she, such a vociferous person, not proclaim that this is something fabricated by the LTTE diaspora? If she was impartial, she is duty bound to convince this unintelligent international community. Casualties are inevitable in any war. But to say there was mass scale killing of civilians is an insult to one’s intelligence.

The UNHRC has been in existence for several decades and functioned impartially headed by numerous High Commissioners. Never before has there been criticism by several member states of loss of integrity. Sri Lanka as one of the countries affected by its partiality, must take remedial action without fear, not only in our national interest, but in the interest of all small countries, that have been the target of brazen partiality by its Head. Countries like Russia, China and Iran have called off this bluff. Pillay would never dare to trifle with those powers.

The writer is a President’s Counsel and a former elected secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka.

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