USUAL PATHETIC CANARD
The new rape canard against the Sri Lankan Forces is as
preposterous and ludicrous as the old rape canard about the Sri
Lankan Forces. The first accusation that Sir Lankan Forces were
using 'rape as a weapon of war', surfaced during the time our
gallant soldiers were fighting the LTTE which was resisting with
its back to the wall.
The 'rape as war-weapon' charge was borrowed from Congo, and
other theatres of war in Africa, where there was clear evidence
of troops raping and pillaging, mostly to cow people of invaded
countries into submission.
Someone in the Tamil diaspora thought it would be a very good
idea to import this horrendous war-crime narrative to Sri Lanka,
and try to make it stick to Sri Lankan Forces.
But, the truth unraveled soon, when after Hillary Clinton
having unfairly accused the Sri Lankan Forces of using 'rape as
a weapon of war', had to retract her statement.
The canard of widespread rape by Sri Lankan Forces eventually
got buried in an avalanche of facts that made it obvious that
such a thing was preposterous to suggest, particularly about the
highly disciplined and professional Sri Lankan Fighting Forces
which won, not just a war against terrorism, but a conventional
war against the LTTE militia which was using conventional and
modern tactics of war.
No conventional war could have been won if the army was using
'rape as a weapon of war' as winning that kind of battle
requires discipline and adherence to a strict army regimen.
Also, if there was any evidence of such atrocities, the
international media would have got to know, as that kind of a
tactic of using sexual aggression as a confrontational ploy
cannot possibly be concealed.
But now that the war is over, the same diaspora desperados
are coming up with the allegations of sexual assault by the Sri
Lankan Forces during interrogation of detainees, and in the
aftermath of war.
These fictional stories are then carefully farmed out to
gullible or prejudiced writers such as Roma Tearne, and
organizations such as Human Rights Watch which are notoriously
irresponsible and are known to be driven by ulterior motives and
hidden agendas.
These new charges of rape and alleged sexual assault by the
Sri Lankan Forces are being made with the aid of affidavits,
which have been sworn by people who mostly claim that such
attacks took place after they were deported from Britain, for
overstaying their Visas for instance.
That some Tamils who would rather remain in Britain and enjoy
the good life, would be piqued and would produce false
affidavits to get themselves a second chance in UK on the basis
of being subject to sexual assault and other forms of violence,
is obvious.
It is as obvious as the Australian boat people story was
obvious. Everybody knew that the bulk of Sri Lankan boat people
going to Australia were doing so because they hoped for greener
pastures and not because they were being persecuted back home.
The opposite editorial article today for instance, has an
Australian writer putting this position across beautifully,
seemingly with much conviction.
But until the Australian government accepted this position
and through its own investigations were able to come to the
conclusion that mercenary minded sharks were misleading people
putting them on boats in return for cash, Australians and
everybody else in the world tended to believe that this
'persecution' story was true.
Now they are talking about the alleged rapes by the army,
with the same kind of spurious cock-sureness with which they
talked about the stories of the boat people.
A disgruntled Jaffna academic who expected a high post and is
now drowning in tears because he did not get it, has recently
written that vaginal marks and cigarette butt burns cannot be
fabricated, as if he has seen these marks and burns!
These are the lies about physical injuries resulting from
rape, that are being fed through affidavits, and for people who
got on boats saying they were persecuted, lying in an affidavit
about rape is a piece of cake - particularly when they are
goaded on by unscrupulous elements of the diaspora to do so.
The Tamil diaspora lives on lies, and everybody knows this to
be true -- it is as plain and as fundamental as night turns to
day. More can be written about it, but suffice to say that the
'sexual-assault by the army' canard is so fecklessly concocted,
that even those who believe it for ulterior motives do so while
looking the other way, because of the stink that emanates from a
cooked-up story, backed up by the kind of evidence with which
one cannot hang a dead rat. |