ARE THOSE WHO VOTED AGAINST SRI LANKA INTELLECTUAL CRETINS?

JAYANTHA GUNASEKERA

Jayalalitaa and Karunanidhi were trying their utmost to include Genocide,in the 2nd US resolution. Do they know the meaning of the word Genocide?

Dr Charles Tannoch a member of the European Parliament castigated his fellow members thus, “ Sri Lanka has finally achieved peace by defeating a ruthless terrorist organization – the LTTE – which had refused all peace bids made by the Government of Sri Lanka. The word genocide is being mentioned by some, even without knowledge of its meaning”. He asked, “how can anyone accuse Sri Lanka for genocide and crimes against humanity when the same army rescued more than 300,000 Tamils civilians from the LTTE, and have now helped re settle them.”

Northern civilians who held as human shield by the LTTE coming to safe areas during the humanitarian operation in 2009

As regards Channel 4 (Killing Fields), the UN’s own specialist Grant says it has been manipulated. When the UN’s own expert is of this view do we need more experts?

The shots in the video clip could well be treatment meted out by the LTTE in army uniform, to those Tamils whom they classified as traitors. One cannot differentiate between a Sinhalese and a Tamil. Killing and mass scale extermination was the forte of Prabhakaran and his LTTE. They were not human beings but animals in human form. Yet there are some Sri Lankan traitors both here and abroad who glorify these killers.

LTTE Diaspora

We have to remember the mass scale extermination of the Jews by Hitler’s Nazis. They shot films of Jews stark naked – men, women and children. These films were unearthed from the German Archives after the defeat of the Nazis.

If the Channel 4 video clip was genuine and authentic, why did they wait for three solid years to release it? Why didn’t they release it in 2009 itself when they canvassed the Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2009? Geneva turned down the request re War Crimes due partly to the absence of cogent and compelling evidence to prove any complicity as far as the Sri Lanka Forces were concerned. The evidence has to be contemporaneous, and not belated.

Geneva exonerated Sri Lanka in 2009, and now rather belatedly the LTTE Diaspora and some Western countries are re-canvassing this same matter four years later, armed with the doctored Channel 4 video clip. A well known principle in Law is “Autrefois Acquit” which means, once exonerated, he remains exonerated. You cannot agitate and re-agitate.

Criminal Law in any democratic country recognizes the promptness of placing material. The video clip in Channel 4 was non-existent in the 2009 inquiry. The LTTE Diaspora and the Channel 4 have taken four years to doctor and fabricate material in order to bluff the dense intellectual mediocrities, who would believe any trash they see on films; or is it that the LTTE Diaspora have wielded attractive and enormous influence on these Western politicians?

The best judges of whether 40,000 Tamils were slaughtered by the Forces are the Tamils themselves, who were kept at gunpoint as human shields by the LTTE. If as much as 40,000 were killed, would they have voluntarily run for protection into the areas controlled by the Army? This itself gives the lie to this canard.

Navanethem Pillay	Ban-Ki-Moon

Are the Western politicians who shed crocodile tears and cry for justice, such fools? Have they asked themselves the question – will they run for protection to the areas controlled by the Army, if 40,000 of their people have been killed by the Army? These Tamils held by the LTTE as human shields were the best judges of the ground situation.

The LTTE Diaspora allege that 40,000 innocent Tamils were killed in the space of a few weeks in the last stages of the war. The unintelligent Western politicians, and the Sri Lanka hater Navanethem Pillay, are like parrots mentioning the recurrent number of 40,000.

Sri Lanka invites these Western politicians and the UN officials to strain their brains and ask themselves the question, where are the dead bodies of these 40,000 and what are their names? The answer is that this is a fictitious and imaginary number fabricated and concocted by the LTTE Diaspora, like the video clips they doctored, knowing fully well that the present day Western Politicians are a set of fools who will believe anything they are shown. Do they think that 40,000 bodies can be made to vanish into thin air, without a trace. Where are the graves?

The Germans built gas chambers in the concentration camps they had constructed in Auswitz, Buchenwald, Treblinka etc. These camps occupied acres of land. Not only did these camps have gas chambers, but they were equipped with INCINERATORS to dispose of the dead bodies. The Germans transported the Jews in trains and gave them the impression that they had to go into these camps to be cleansed and bathed. This was to prevent panic and hysteria. When the taps were opened in the bath houses, it was not water that came out but gas, which killed the Jews within minutes. The bodies were then put into incinerators and burnt to ash.

Fabricated material

This process went on for years, and not weeks. Even after the war, there was positive evidence that such large numbers were killed and disposed of. Where is the evidence that the Western politicians can adduce for Sri Lanka to be taken before a War Crimes Tribunal? If they are such gentlemen why don’t they ask that Britain, US and NATO forces be taken before a War Crimes Tribunal for blatantly killing un-armed civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya?

The Americans who now cry for human rights, dropped Atom Bombs from the aircraft “Enola Grey” piloted by Capt Tibbets on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instantly killing 250,000 innocent Japanese. Millions of Japanese perished over the years from the resultant radiation.

One Law for Westerners, and another Law for Sri Lanka.

Quoting the Sunday Times of 5.6.2011, Lt Col Lawrence Smith at the Seminar on “Defeating Terrorism - the Sri Lanka Experience” was instructive. Lt Col Smith was the Defence Attache in the American Embassy in Colombo and had first hand information about the end of the war more than Navanethem Pillay and even the LTTE Diaspora. He was a man on the spot. In the words of the US Embassy’s own Defence Attache Lt Col Lawrence Smith, a fearless and impartial military officer, “may I say something to a couple of questions raised.

I have been the Defence Attache here at the US Embassy since June 2008. Regarding the various versions of events that came out in the final hours and days of the conflict, from what I was privileged to HEAR and SEE, the offers for surrender that I am aware of seemed to come from the mouthpieces of the LTTE’s Nadesan, K.P – people who weren’t and never had really demonstrated any control over the leadership or the combat power of the LTTE. So their offers were a bit suspect anyway and they tended to vary in content hour by hour, day by day. I think we need to examine the credibility of those offers before we leap to conclusions that such offers were in fact real.” He goes on, “I think the same is true for the version of events. It’s not so uncommon in combat operations in the fog of war as we all get our second, third, fourth-hand from various commanders at various levels that the stories don’t all seem to quite match up. But I can say that the version presented at this Seminar is what I heard as I was here during that time. And I think I’d better leave it at that before I get into trouble”.

No sooner he made these truthful statements the US State Department dissociated itself with him, their own military and defence attaché.

This means they want to hide the truth and put Sri Lanka in the dock on false and fabricated material. This is the principle on which the American State Dept works – conceal the truth and highlight blatantly false and fabricated material. The Times goes on, “one can only hope Lt Col Lawrence Smith the Defence Attache of the American Embassy will not face a General Court Martial for telling the truth even if it were against US (State Dept) policy. It also clearly shows how the Pentagon (US Defence Dept) and the State Dept have 2 prisms through which they see the wars in the world.”

the Times stated, “the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, (a confirmed hater of the Sinhala race) continues to take an unrelentingly tough stand against SL (while suppressing the truth) has apparently written to Bang-ki-Moon, summarizing comments made of SL by some delegates at the HR Council in Geneva. She has asked what further steps are being taken following the UN Panel of Experts Report. The External Affairs Ministry is livid that no such request has apparently been directed by her to the Secretary General on most other countries that have come in for similar negative comments, including NATO actions in Afghanistan”

This shows that she has been influenced by the Tamil LTTE Diaspora and is openly partisan for her own race, which she is not supposed to do. She, as an employee of the UN is strictly expected to hold the scales even.

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