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| Muttiah Muralitharan Cricketer and a great patriot of Sri Lanka |
But why and who is responsible for this wild accusation by the West ?
There had not been any violation of human rights for which Sri Lanka could correctly be singled out as the only country in the
world committing violations against the rights of its people.
If we examine the number of innocent people who have been killed and continued
to be killed by other wealthy Nations in
the world, not in their own countries but in other developing countries outside
their own, using their NATO or American Armed Forces chasing after terrorists, what
human right violations Sri Lanka is
accused of having committed cannot be regarded as such.
These accusations against Sri Lanka
are being made without taking into consideration that Sri Lanka suffered
from terrorism for nearly thirty years and carried out military operations against
the terrorists without going outside its own territorial boundaries, as the
West is doing. Sri Lanka
cannot therefore be accused for violation of human rights as it carried out its
military operations strictly within the country avoiding damage as far as possible to its own
civilian population.
A war against terrorism is different from a declared war against a
country. In Sri Lanka
it was just a group of Tamil youth within the country who had taken
up arms against the Government. They were taken
by the Indian Secret Service and trained as terrorists and released into
the country to accomplish their aim of dividing the country to form a separate State
for the Tamil Community. Those Tamil
terrorists who eventually turned out to
be a considerable force had to be eliminated
as they were causing considerable suffering to the people of the whole
country for nearly three decades.
The civilians no doubt may have got killed in the course of military operations to eliminate that destructive terrorism despite the care taken by the
Government Air Forces for precise bombing, and others may have got killed being
caught in the cross fire between the terrorists and armed forces, but there had never been deliberate shooting at the Tamil civilians by the Government Forces.
But vast destruction to the country and lot of murders of civilians in
large scale massacres in unimaginable ways and means employing claymore bombs,
in buses , trains, market places, and using kidnapped Tamil women trained as
suicide bombers exploding themselves to eliminate selected human targets, had been carried out by the terrorists
through out the 30 years of their ruthless, atrocious existence.
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| A beloved Minister of Foreign ZAffairs Lakshman Kadirgamar assassinated by the terrorists |
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| 12 civilian workers at an irrigation construction site massacred by the Sri Lanka terrorists |
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| Temple of the tooth at Kandy most sacred to the Buddhists the world over destroyed by the terrorists |
In that situation of utter horror the country faced for thirty years the
civilian deaths in the course of the elimination of terrorists by the Armed
Forces of Sri Lanka cannot by any imagination be called violation of human
rights, and least of all war crimes.
It is only the foreign media that makes an issue of
human rights violation in Sri Lanka, supported by the Governments of the Western Countries either
bought over by the terrorist sympathising Sri Lanka Tamil Diaspora, or through the
jealousy of the developed west towards a developing country dare spring into being
their equal, showing immense capability in economic development (while they are
nose deep in a financial crisis), and
engaging in a remarkable ability
to build new diplomatic ties with
countries the Developed West would like to keep in a state of dependent
underdevelopment.
The Independent website on 14
November,2013, titled its Editorial , “ Sri Lanka’s
appalling human rights record raises questions about legitimacy of the Commonwealth.”
UK Channel 4 has said “The people who so effectively executed the annihilation of the Tamil
Tigers and many tens of thousands around them still run the country on a war
footing.”
An NGO
working for CNN writes, “As many as 70,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka's war
and in its final stage, which lasted from September 2008 to May 2009, the Sri
Lankan army advanced into an area of the north where about 330,000 people were
trapped by fighting. A U.N. report in 2011 said the government used
"large-scale and widespread shelling" that left a large number of
civilians dead.”
David Blair
of the Telegraph reported, “The world’s
media took the opportunity to bring to the fore the plight of Sri Lanka’s disappeared – with
5,676 “outstanding cases” according to the United Nations – and the unresolved
question of the atrocities carried out during the final battle of the civil war
in 2009.” He adds, “ The Sri Lanka “heads of government
meeting” was a shambles, boycotted by the leaders of two of the most important
members – Canada and India – and overshadowed by the controversy over its
location……..”
Huffington
Post UK
wrote: “The Rajapaksa government's human rights record has sparked
international outcry as it is accused of committing war crimes in the civil war
with Tamil separatists in 2009. The prime ministers of India, Canada
and Mauritius
all boycotted the CHOGM, while David Cameron was branded an "imperialist"
for calling for war crimes allegations to be investigated.”
Do not
these malicious accusations against Sri Lanka
for violation of human rights and war
crimes by its Armed Forces show the presence of a
hidden agenda of the Western
countries, or is it a ploy to cover up
their own record of atrocious human rights violations and war crimes, in Vietnam, Libya,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq,
and Syria ?
If it is
suggested that Sri Lanka should be taken before a Tribunal for violation of human rights and war crimes, is
it not correct that the first to be taken before such a tribunal should be USA, UK, Canada,
Netherland, Germany, France and the rest ?
They-America
and the West cannot accuse Sri Lanka, unless America and its allies of the West –UK,
France, Germany, Canada, Netherland , Italy,
submit themselves to an
international investigation of their violation of human rights and war crimes.
If there were to be such an investigation Sri Lanka should be a party to it.
These accusations against Sri Lanka as a violator of the human
rights of its own people will go on non stop as long as the pro terrorist
Tamil diaspora continues to pay the Western media such as the UK Channel 4, and
buy over the Western politicians.
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| a falsified image to put a crime against Sri Lanka Armed Force |
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| Mosdern Hotel and a shopping Mall in Colombo Sri Lanka |
The western television viewers love to see scenes of suffering and
pathos, they are so moved by them the media offers more and more of it for
their consumption often doctored and
falsified by UK Channel 4 to the
exclusion of images of development of roads,
bridges and buildings of utility, beautification of streets, parks, cultural
manifestations, and healthy happy children in clean and neat dresses.
The Western television viewers love to see the naked thin limbed African
children suffering from malnutrition
with their mothers sitting and chasing away flies, or scenes of disasters with country sides devastated
by typhoons, tsunamis , or earth quakes, and the
African soldiers and child soldiers in their dirty military fatigues,
holding kalashnikov in their hands
For the Western Television
viewers the developing countries are the nests of suffering. Those images of
suffering displayed before them by their media- the press and television arouse their
humanitarian sentiments. The governments
in these developing countries are depicted through these televised images
as the cause of these unbelievable suffering of the people.
Sri Lanka another developing country emerging out of its underdevelopment does not seem to
interest as such to the Western media which produces their reports to suit the Western viewers who prefer images of suffering
of these countries. Hence the popularity of UK Channel 4. It does not matter where images
have been taken or how the scenes had been created in studios, as long as the
images incriminate the governments as the perpetrator of suffering in developing countries.
It is with this back ground in mind
that I sat down to watch the
BBC News
in the Television the day the
CHOGM was declared open by the Crown Prince Charles of Great Britain. The BBC news started with a long report on
the devastation caused by the typhoon Haiyan in Philippines, then they came to Sri
Lanka and showed the image of British Prime Minister
David Cameron being received by the host the President Mahinda Rajapakse of Sri Lanka.
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| Prince Charles and Participants at CHOGM held in Sri Lanka |
The presenter said in Sri Lanka the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
is being held under a cloud of accusation of human rights violation by Sri Lanka, then they passed on to show images
of the Presidential election campaign in Chile, and then a report on the child
soldiers in the Armed forces of Ghana.
There was nothing more about Sri Lanka and the CHOGM. The media just presented what interested the
Western viewers.
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| CHOGM Opening Ceremony in Sri Lanka BMICH |
But why is the visual media like the UK Channel 4, interested in
preparing documentaries using images
doctored in studies to make them realist criminal offences committed by the
Armed Forces of Sri Lanka, when there are other countries who commit war crimes
in countries out side their own countries, killing civilians in reckless
bombardments as it happened, in Libya.
There are meaningless killings of Afghan civilians by American soldiers,
torture of prisoners, in Iraq,
death of civilians in drone attacks in
the boarder villages of Pakistan,
and torturing of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camps . Despite all that UK Channel 4 is
specialising in Sri Lanka creating instances of human rights violation by
doctoring images collected at random.
Why ?
The obvious reason is that UK Channel 4 has been retained by the anti Sri Lanka pro-terrorist Tamil Diaspora for their
vicious campaign against Sri
Lanka.
Hence UK Channel 4 produce anti Sri Lanka films implicating its Armed
Forces as war criminals at every occasion
the West brings accusations of violation of human rights against Sri
Lanka at the UNHRCouncil in Geneva, or during visits of Sri Lanka dignitaries
to UK, or even lately at CHOGM in Sri Lanka.
Who provides false information
and encourages the foreign media and the Anti Sri Lanka humanitarian agencies
to interfere into internal affairs of Sri Lanka and maintain an ongoing anti Sri Lanka publicity
campaign of violation of human rights by
the government and war crimes of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces ?
It is the Sri Lanka Tamil
Community led by the TNA which is the
mole-the traitor which is discrediting
the country, and destroying the unity and development of Sri Lanka, and feeds the Western Countries and
media with false information to justify their claim to set up a separate Tamil State.
If TNA and the Tamil diaspora
were to stop their traitorous campaign against Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka would have gone a long
way, much faster in its development,
providing its people the benefits from the hard won peace. But it is not to be. Unfortunately the Tamils in the South are
also silently contributing to this
conspiracy against the unity and
progressive development of Sri
Lanka.
We tend to believe that the Tamils in the South living in peace and
harmony with the Sinhala, will not be a party to an attempt at division of the
country and separation of Communities.
But the opposite is the truth.
If it is not so, how can we expect a man like Vigneshawaran, who lived,
studied, worked as a judge, married his
sons to Sinhala women, after becoming
the Chief Minister of the PC of the North,
takes side with the TNA against
the Government and the Sinhala Community. He has become a shameless traitor to Sri Lanka going
as far as comparing a terrorist psychopath to a National leader who died
fighting against the British colonisation
of his country.
If Sri Lanka is
to develop and divest itself of foreign
interference Sri Lanka
should politically eliminate the TNA and
its sympathisers, as it eliminated physically the terrorists.
There had been no Tamils from the south who had so far stood up to
defend Sri Lanka and speak out against the
TNA and their separatist Agenda. The
reason why the foreign media, the anti Sri Lanka Western Countries, the
numerous human rights agencies interfere into Sri Lanka accusing it of violation of human rights and war crimes by
its armed forces, is the result of the Sri Lankan Tamil Community’s silent complicity with the TNA and their separatist
political agenda.
The number of real Sri Lankan patriots amoung the Sri Lankan Tamil
Community would not exceed ten. Amoung
them is our great cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, who was able to silence both
David Cameron and the UK
Channel 4 journalists through his frank declaration.
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| Muttiah Murulitharan a beloved figure |
Mutiah Mulitharan declared to
them, speaking as one whose family had
been victims of race riots, that he has
forgotten the past, and advised them to
do like wise without digging into Sri Lanka’s past, but help Sri Lanka in its
development and reconciliation process.
If there were to be more Tamils like him Sri Lanka
will be able to rid itself of the Western interference into its peaceful
existence and continue with its progress and development towards the goal of
building a prosperous Sri Lanka
for every one to live happily together.
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| Let our people live and enjoy the fruits of hard won peace |
1 comment:
Who is responsible for Sri Lanka being accused for violation of human rights and war crimes ?
It is India, Indians living outside India and Indian intelligence service, Third Eye.
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