United States diplomats held an informal
meeting at the Palais de Naciones where the UN Human Rights Council is
in session. There, they presented the text of their second draft
resolution on Sri Lanka. The meeting in session.
By holding
onto the tail end of the war against terrorism by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces
USA State Department is bogged down with
an impossible task of asserting the number of
Tamil Civilians killed proposing different numbers at different times
from 6000 to 40000.
Knowing
very well that even a foreign investigators will not be able to ascertain the
actual numbers killed, USA now
introduces new issue in their resolution
which has no connections to the
accountability for civilian deaths they vehemently called for earlier. They have very cunningly switched to issues which
are internal matters with which they have no right to interfere.
America is acting like the crab walking
side ways calling the other crabs to walk strait. Every thing America complains as
violations by the Sri Lanka Government
and its Armed Forces are the violations Americans themselves are continue, many
folds more with complete impunity in
their manifold theatres of war.
There is
certainly no reason for the USA State Department to make such a song and a
dance about the numbers of civilians killed at the last phase of the war
against terrorism ignoring the
innumerable numbers of men, women and children killed by the terrorists for 27
years or more before that.
It appears the last phase of the terrorist war
was selected to accuse the Sri Lanka armed forces for war crimes, genocide and what not leaving
out the LTTE terrorists for their unaccountable number of massacres,
assassinations, suicide human bombs and bomb blasts. If USA
and the UNHR Commissioner Navi Pillay call Sri Lanka for accountability for
the deaths of civilians at that crucial
end of the terrorist war, we should then take up the cases of massacres,
assassinations, and bomb blasts and take legal action against the LTTE.
That would
end the present comedy of the terrorist rump in the diaspora, and Global Tamil
Forum and rest of their supporters including Ministers in UK and Canada, who will stand charged for
terrorism, and aiding abetting terrorism.
There is enough evidence to bring all of them into the net. Sri Lanka need
not have access to UK Channel 4 to make
a false video footage as plenty of real
videos, photos, and eye witness evidence are available.
There was
definitely no intentional shooting by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces to kill
civilians. If their were civilian deaths they were accidental, and the
deaths of those unfortunate ones who were caught in the cross fire. Those are unavoidable and will certainly not amount to as much as they estimate to make
their reports create an images of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces as monsters.
It is a
hard way to put it but one says that one cannot make an omelet without breaking
eggs. A war cannot avoid deaths. In the
case of a terrorist war, there are no
niceties and if there were 40 000 killed then it was because of the
war. We have a right then to ask who
brought the Sri Lanka Armed Forces into a war. Many Sri Lankan Governments
before and the present government tried their
best to get the terrorists around a table to come to a negotiated peace
settlement. But all those negotiations
ended with the representatives of the terrorists walking away from talks half
way. Finally the government had no
alternative but to take alms when the terrorists opened fire at soldiers who
were trying to open sluice gates of a tank the terrorists had wantonly closed,
depriving the farmers water to cultivate their fields.
It was in
that opening of Mavil Aru sluice gates the terrorists opened fire at the armed
forces which began the military operation against them that led to intense
fighting ending up in large numbers of terrorists , civilians and soldiers
killed until the end of it. The deaths
in the course of that fighting are the responsibility of the LTTE terrorists
who have to account for every drop of blood in that war. But the USA state Department and Navi
Pillay is conveniently avoiding the issue exonerating the terrorists, and asking
accountability from the Government of Sri Lanka just for the deaths during a space of about three weeks of fighting from 21 April, 2009 to 18 May,2009.
Even then
the actual numbers of deaths cannot be ascertained and it cannot be as much as
40 000( according to Gordon Weiss), and certainly far less, for which the Sri Lanka
Armed forces cannot be held responsible as it was the terrorists who brought the civilians into the
war zone as a human shield for their own protection..
America had never been a country which act
with concern about numbers of civilian deaths which it conveniently shirks off
as collateral damage. It was the same even in its wars with CIA interventions in previous regime changing
wars in Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Congo etc.
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America had not been able to get rid of it visceral
aggressivity out of its system. Nor has USA which accuses developing countries
and now Sri Lanka has ever assisted a single developing country to develop into
being an independent Sovereign State. On
the contrary it had destroyed many developing countries and balkanised some,
made some caught in its “debt trap”. It
is the same that USA is trying
to do now in Sri Lanka.
The USA
President Barack Obama who came with a cry of “hope and change” has completely failed even to
change the foreign policy of his own US State Department.
The USA
State Department does not have enough grey matter to think and understand whether
it is possible, an Armed Force of a country fighting against terrorists that
had risen from amoung them who are their own people sharing the same motherland would while rescuing 300 000 Tamil Civilians, shoot
to kill 40000 others ?
The Armed
Forces and the Sinhala people from the South provided three meals per day for
the rescued Tamil Civilians –the IDPs who where sheltered in camps hurriedly
set up by the armed forces, and provided
with clothes and amenities by the people from all over Sri Lanka.
It is time Sri Lanka takes some bold action, without
playing second fiddle to India. India
had decided long before the UNHRCouncil’s 22 Sessions to vote with the USA against Sri Lanka. Indian political leadership has no backbone,
living under threat of break away
states.
It is
possible with politicians like Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha, Vaiko , Nedimaran who have not the intelligence and the
political acumen to understand human situations in a political environment. Their attachment to Sri Lanka
terrorists is a mere sentimental issue, and Karunanidhi’s hands are smeared
with the blood of the assassinated Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, in whose
assassination he has had a hand according to the Report of the Jain
Commission.
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Sri Lanka has had enough of interference into
its internal affairs by the USA,
the International Community and Navi Pillai, without having made any positive moves to assist and aid Sri Lanka
before he elimination of terrorists, and now put barriers against its process
of reconciliation of the communities to unite the people.
Sri Lanka does not want foreign technicians
and NGOs to settle its problems. They
will only make matters worse as they come with their own agenda, and without an
atom of understanding of the Culture , custom and sentiments of the people in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the USA
and International Community and Navi Pillai should get off our backs and allow Sri Lanka to solve whatever
problems it has with its people in its own way at its own pace.
It is now time that Sri Lanka prepares to take the LTTE
terrorists and all those connected to the LTTE to tribunal. A Law Court for
that purpose should be set up in Sri Lanka as the Foreign Tribunals –even the International Court of
Law in Hague cannot be trusted to be independent as the USA and the West are determined to take
revenge from the Government of Sri Lanka for the elimination of its terrorists,
who for them are only rebels.
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