A Reply to Frances Harrison of the Huffington Post.

This woman Frances Harrison weeps for the terrorists and not for the poor soldiers who  had to give their lives to save the suffering of the innocent people under terrorists.

In an article  to  the Huffington Post of the 16 November,2012 Frances Harrison asks, “ What if the UN Had Spoken Out on Sri Lanka ?”  The article is to blame UN for suppressing the information it is supposed to have had  about 50,000 casualties in a war off limit to journalists and asks  if today the United Nations had informed  the receipt of such unconfirmed reports    ” wouldn’t the world take notice of it ?”

What would have happened ?  We know what happened in Libya . We have seen in Libya  what happened when the  “world  took notice  and tried to stop the killings.”  That taking notice ended up in what the NATO said  the “ most successful operation  in NATO History.”
“Writing back in September, Thomas C. Mountain, an independent journalist currently living in Africa who was a member of the 1st US Peace Delegation to Libya in 1987, estimated that NATO had dropped over 30,000 bombs on Libya, with an average of "two civilians killed in each attack.”  

Thus, Mountain has estimated that some 60,000 Libyan civilians had been killed by NATO air strikes alone by the end of August.  Shortly thereafter, when rebel forces began the siege of Sirte, Moussa Ibrahim, a spokesman for the now-deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, told Reuters via telephone on September 19 that "in the last 17 days, more than 2,000 residents of the city of Sirte were killed in NATO air strikes."  As of today, some 26,000 NATO sorties and 9,600 strike missions have been conducted by NATO, with an average of four bombs used per attack.   “Though it may never be known just how many died in “the most successful operation in NATO history,” the alliance has shown little interest in rebuilding a nation that has in many ways been wrecked by its seven-month military campaign.  “

According to Palestinian human rights activist Shawan Jabarin, “The military operation damaged everything in Libya, not just Gaddafi and his regime, but the society [as well].”
(http://rt.com/news/nato-libya-operation-success-999/)
After some 8,000 bombing raids, with estimates of 4 bombs used per attack NATO has already dropped over 30,000 bombs on Libya. That’s almost 200 bombs per day for 6 months, some tens of thousands of tons of high explosives. With an estimated 2 Libyans killed per bomb and without a single NATO casualty the Western regimes have massacred over 60,000 Libyans in the past half year with the rebels themselves having said there have been 50,000 Libyan deaths. One hell of a humanitarian intervention isn’t it? (http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/02/30000-bombs-over-libya/)

Frances Harrison that is how the “ world took notice” in Libya when a group of Libyans  in Benghazi manifested against the Colonel Gaddafi .  It was not really the world but it was the “leaders of the powerful nations” that took notice of it and went all out to not only assassinate Colonel Gaddafi but also kill large numbers of civilians including women and children.  After that NATO’s most successful bombardments in its history what remained of Libyan cities and villagers were rubble of buildings, and houses where once people lived.

It would have been exactly what would have happened to Sri Lanka “if the world took notice  and tried to stop the killings.” The UN Secretary General having had experience of knowing how the West reacts to such notification may have deliberately suppressed the information without allowing the Western Nations to send its NATO Forces to turn Sri Lanka into rubble with civilian deaths put off as  collateral damage.

There would not have been the Human Rights watch , the Amnesty international, International Crisis Group and the UNHRC that would have got involved to intervene  but just the  NATO bombardments.  Frances Harrison aught to be naïf , not to understand that eventuality.

Frances Harrison ,  today UNO is just a label, there are other Organisations and  Agencies that have usurped  the original UNO.  What remains is an empty shell just bearing its name.  After the  Swedish Secretary General of  UNO Dag Hammarskjold, the next European who held the position was  Austrian Kurt Waldheim, and after him no Western man has  headed the UNO.

Since then the Western countries were disrespectful to the UNO, and gradually it lost its importance as an International Organisation to keep war at bay, making it a forum for the dissenting nations to meet and settle their disputes in dialogue rather than resorting to war.  George Bush just walked over the UNO and declared war against Iraq waving  tampered documents claiming Iraq has stock piles of  weapons of mass destruction.  In like fashion France, USA, UK and their allies gave false assertion of surveying the airspace over Libya and got the NATO Forces to Bomb Libya.

Frances Harrison has not written anything about Syria.  Syrian war continues because the western countries arm the rebels against the Armies of Al Asad like they did in Libya. Fortunately Sri Lanka escaped such a dire end. The West including people like Frances Harrison  regret that lost opportunity to get the NATO to bombard Sri Lanka and arm the “rebels under Prabhakaran” against the Government.

For Frances Harrison it is the question of  a leaked document which had been suppressed by the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. One wonders how many such leaked documents there would be in future.   It is really another farce that is  being enacted by the West.  There had been no leaked documents, but these are  reports and information brought out from time to  time to discredit a Sovereign State –Sri Lanka which is doing far  better than the  expectation of the West.

At the moment West is  facing a serious political and economic  crisis.  There greatest fear is the Asian countries  piercing through difficult technological and financial barriers to take over the control of the world economy.   USA has its part of  the unsurmountable difficulties, yet the newly elected President Barrack Obama makes a voyage to Burma of all places.  Why not to France which has changed its conservative regime to a Socialist Regime ?

President Obama chooses Burma to spread American influence in an area of the world where China is becoming a super power.  America by its hopeful influence in Burma is trying to avert China’s influence in North Korea, which America continues to threaten along with Iran for their  nuclear intentions.

Therefore it is understandable that Frances Harrison is  made a mere pawn in the hands of the Western big powers to stop Sri Lanka getting further involved with China, allowing China to make use of its politically strategic position. The west is involved in a power game discrediting Sri Lanka and help any dissenting groups like the TNA and  anti Sri Lanka pro-terrorist Tamil Diaspora to Balkanize  Sri Lanka.  Having had lost the opportunity they had to break up Sri Lanka at the last phase of its  military operations against the terrorists, the countries Frances Harrison represent now come out with “leaked” documents and numbers killed by the armed forces at the crucial phase of its war against terrorists  gradually increased from 7000 to 40 or 50000.

Frances Harrison is getting depressive haunted by the thoughts of  what may have happened at the end phase of Sri Lanka war against  terrorists. Harrison says, “The document cites the UN's role in Rwanda, saying some lessons there were not learned and proved relevant to Sri Lanka. Let's hope they're learned for Syria, but as the author of a book of survivors' stories from that war in Sri Lanka I am haunted by the thought of what might have been there.”

Frances Harrison refers to Charles Petrie’s document and  very sadly remarks, “Petrie's report meticulously documents how senior UN officials continuously tried to blame the Tamil Tiger rebels - a proscribed terrorist group - for the killings even while their own international staff told them the Sri Lankan government was responsible for the majority of deaths. It was a bias that has slanted all coverage of the conflict since because it came from such an influential and reliable source - the UN no less. ”

Whatever Charlesd Petrie had said  UN is making constant errors without having an agenda of its own but serving the agenda of those powerful Western Countries.  There are no reliable reports about Sri Lanka   from whatever western agencies, journalists or foreign  political analysts , not to speak of  the squeaking of the  BBC,  the UK Channel 4 and the likes. 

I cannot understand Frances Harrison who is supposed to have written a book of survivors' stories from that war in Sri Lanka,( apparently there are  many who profit from the situation in Sri Lanka to make money writing books for gullible western readers) has not read the report of the  Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission on its  records of the breaches of the CFA by the terrorists and the Government, an excerpt from  which reads:   “ In total 13,026 complaints were filed, most of them in Batticaloa (3815, 29%) and Jaffna (3219, 25%). The vast majority (92%) of the violations were committed by the LTTE ….”

The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission was  a European Group, and they reported from what they had verified and monitored that the majority of the violations against the CFA were committed by the terrorists.   How can then those  who had no access to the ground situation   say, even if they were senior UN Officials that , “the Sri Lankan government was responsible for the majority of deaths.” 

In the final stages of the military operations against the terrorists no body could have been counting deaths though Frances Harrison faults the UN officials . There was an exodus of Tamil Civilians held as  human shields by the terrorists    seeking  the safety amoung the Government Military Forces. 

Can Frances Harrison understand the dimension of the situation that existed in that no fire zone ?  Why cannot  Harrison give a modicum  of  his thoughts to the extreme human kindness of the Armed Forces taking 300000 Tamil Civilians to safety  risking their own lives ? Would the  soldiers  who helped the escapees from the terrorists seeking their protection turn round to shoot at them ?

Frances Harrison any human being has two mental aspects one that appreciates, and  the other that condemns.  What one observes in these Western do gooders is  their weeping for the  unknown dead, without turning to understand the living. They readily condemn, but are  slow to give credit.    If one can look at the problem without getting personally involved then one  will realise that there are the inevitable that may  happen in war  for which the one that fights to  destroy the evil cannot be blamed .  For terrorism was the evil that, massacred, killed, and maimed a nation’s cherished people, men and women of valour.

Frances Harrison there are many who try to put the Sri Lanka terrorists and the Government Forces on the same footing. This is a  most disgusting way of evaluating  perpetrators of crime, and those who try to stop its perpetration.

 Would you put Al Qaeda who blew up the twin towers killing more than 3000 Americans and the American  Navy Seals who killed the unarmed Osma Bin Laden on the same footing ? 

 Of course you would not… so why do you write accusingly of  Ban Ki Moon’s Chef of the cabinet Mr. Vijay Nambiar an intelligent  man imploring Navy Pillai to tone down and dilute her statement  ? You say “He even complained that her statement put the Tamil Tiger rebels and the government on the same footing.”

Frances Harrison,  many are the people who have come forward to accuse Sri Lanka  after the elimination of the cancer of terrorism that ate into the fabric of the Sri Lankan Society for three decades .  They never came forward before either to sympathise with the government and the people of Sri Lanka, nor to give a hand in its attempt to rid itself of terrorism. 

Why do you now after three years come round to look for numbers dead, while the living are seeking  to get over the shock of going that long period of suffering to settle down to reconcile with the communities and march together towards progressive development of Sri Lanka ?

Perhaps Frances Harrison  does not know  how many innocent civilians have been killed by the very nations he represent through out the period of colonisation from Peru to Africa, Vietnam to India, Latin America to Middle East ?  What are the numbers  the Western countries you represent killed in Vietnam, in Japan , in China, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya ?

 Frances Harrison you do not represent a saintly crowd of Western countries ?  They are and they have been more devilish, ruthless killers, murderers, and assassins ?

The war against terrorists in Sri Lanka was a rightful war against a group of terrorists sprung from amoung the people, and fought within the boundaries of Sri Lanka. It was a clean war .  It is the West represented  by you who are used to unclean wars , who try to make our war against our terrorist  seem unclean.

If there were to be terrorism again in Sri Lanka we will eliminate them the same way we eliminated the LTTE terrorists, and will not allow any one of the countries you represent to interfere asking us to set up monitoring offices.

Frances Harrison, you have worked for the BBC, Amnesty International , but these institutions have no love, they have no sense of justice and fair play. They get reporters to write what they are paid to report .  They are reporters without feelings without  hearts.  Each country has its own  cultural values that makes one  nation different from another.  It is only one who knows and understands another’s  culture, that can evaluate the reasons of its actions.  The rest are mere spectators trying to understand others from one’s own cultural make up, which is different from that of the other.

JVP’s Political bankruptcy and that of the UNP

JVP Parliamentarian Anura Dissanayake  says “The institutions they themselves wanted us to believe as ‘supreme’ are being demolished by Rajapaksa regime. They are being belittled and slandered. The impeachment process is not carried out for truth, justice or fair play. If you can read between the lines you would be able to see what the real intention is.  This is the real nature of Rajapaksa. All institutions they want to be cowed down are being insulted, slandered, threatened and attacked,” 

The JVP are following the tactics of the  Western Governments, UN Officials, Human Rights Activists , the pro-terrorist Tamil Diaspora, and the TNA. 

JVP wants to discredit the Government and see the fall of Rajapaksa Presidency.   They of the JVP were the very people who helped  the election of  Mahinda Rajapaksa, but they were not satisfied playing  the second fiddle to the President Mahinda Rajapakse.  JVP wants to be the Maestro.  But ever since they left the UPFA their popularity among the masses has fallen to zero. 

The people wanted to pardon them for their massacres during the period leading to their uprising in 1971  and there after.  The JVP was  then feared by the people to such an extent they would not even pronounce  their name loud .  JVP spies were every where nobody knew where.  The people were living with fear of death  in the most savage form.  They were even frightened of the shadows by the road sides.  JVP  insurrection failed it is said  because they did not have the backing of the masses, it was a proletarian revolution.  What ever it  had been  JVP still hasn’t  the support of the masses for even a successful election victory, let alone a revolution.

In 1982  Rohana Wijeweera the leader of the JVP contested the Presidential elections, but got far lees votes than he expected.  In the meantime they incessantly killed innumerable number of people who were opposed to their “Doctrine”.  Now the vociferous JVP Leadership  led by Somawansa Amarasinghe,  Anura Dissanayake,  Tilvin Silva , Lal Kantha and the rest have their annual memorial rallies  for their dead leader, but up to now JVP have  not demanded  the pardon of the people for their most savage assassinations that will remain the blood mark of JVP.  I myself had a cousin  who was taken away from his home, had his head cut off  stuck on a pole and displayed in front of his house.   There were stories of how flesh of their killed enemies were sent to their homes  telling that it was sent by the “victim” who will come later for  “dinner”………!!!

After the death or assassination (which is still a mystery)  of their leader the JVP still hopes  for  a successful proletarian revolution like the TNA  and the terrorist rump abroad are  hoping to set up a Tamil Eelam. It is that which keeps JVP from joining hands with the President Mahinda Rajapakse  but keeps on discrediting  him and  his government hoping that will pave the way for  an eventual JVP Government. The JVP is working for it  unreservedly criticising every action of the President and his government, increasing trade union activities organised by Lal Kantha with strikes and  manifestation, roping in the University Students –the IUSF and the FUTA.

They still go by Marxist theories propounded by their leader Rohana Wijeweera : “We Marxists are proletarian revolutionaries. We do not conceal this fact from anyone. We hope for a complete revolutionary change of the existing social system and act with that goal in view. Ours is not the role of sitting on the fence with folded arms waiting for the day when this capitalist system is taken for burial on the shoulders of others; this capitalist system has bequeathed suffering and oppression to the working class of this country, which is over three million strong. It has made poverty and want the sole inheritance of the middle and lower peasants who comprise more than half the population of this country, it has become the fount and source of each and every contemporary social problem that the bulk of the nation suffers. The socialist revolution in a country can be hastened or delayed depending on the degree to which objective conditions are ripe and subjective conditions, i.e. consciousness, organization and leadership, have developed.”

They want poverty to continue to exist for the success of their hopeful revolution , and Anura Dissanayaka perhaps sees end of poverty in the Divineguma Bill and wants to precipitate their “revolution”, as end of poverty will eliminate their Marxist revolutionary hope.  His critical stance on the Impeachment of the CJ is to bring about JVP’s desired foreign intervention against the Impeachment and thus against the Government of the President Rajapakse.  Otherwise with their own representative Vijitha Herath  nominated to the PSC, there is no need for  Anura Dissanayake to make a statement at a Media Meeting held at the JVP Office in Pelwatte on the Impeachment.

The UN human rights expert ( in the UN System every one is an expert) Gabriela Knaul has stated “ The irremovability of judges is one of the  main pillars of guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary.”  We do not know where she got it from, but that is apparently what she had said. 

Then in UK Commons Foreign Affairs Committee demands David Cameron the Prime Minister   to boycott the Commonwealth Summit to be held in Sri Lanka  next year due to continuing evidence of serious human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. 

And in Australia Gordon Weiss has opened his mouth  as is his  habit to compare which is  incomparable saying:  “There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide - and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone.” (what has Rwanda Genocide and Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, got to do with Sri Lanka).

These three news items may have titillated the unpatriotic  minds of the politically   bankrupt JVP parliamentarians to renew their attack on the President Rajapaksa and his government.

JVP is not alone in the idea of binding hands and legs of Sri Lanka and sell it off to  the foreign champions of “regime change” to do what they like with it and when finished with   hand it back to them. Ranil Wickramasinghe and the UNP are also participating in the deal.

UNP  also has still not asked the pardon of the people of Sri Lanka for the killing spree with torture chambers where thousands of Sinhala Buddhist youth were killed and tortured by the UNP under President  Premadasa  in the  attempt to  put an end to the savagery of the JVP.  Sajith  Premadasa-the Vice President of UNP has a duty by the people to say sorry for  his father‘s part in those killings, for arming the terrorists, and for what ever hand he had in the assassination of the late Lieutenant General Denzil Kobbekaduwa.

But they JVP and the UNP are  today the champions of democracy , human rights and  good governance. 

It is reported that the leader  of the UNP Ranil Wickremesinghe has  asked the government to clearly state its stance on the 13th Amendment……..and whether the Government was rejecting the May 26, 2009 joint statement with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the May 17, 2011 joint statement with the Indian Government where the Sri Lankan Government underlines its commitment to the implementation of the 13th Amendment. Mr. Wickremesinghe  has added that a different tone was being heard today despite the assurances given to the United Nations and to India that power devolution under the 13th Amendment would be systematized and strengthened.”

What is Ranil Wickramasinghe fishing for in the troubled waters of Sri Lanka when it  needs the unity of every one to  face the attacks  coming from the West to subjugate and bar the development and progress of our country after  the elimination of the terrorists, for which none of these Western Countries came forward  to help.

Democratic process has been set up for the impeachment of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka. It is purely an internal problem which the country has to proceed with according to its Constitution.  It is neither the business of the UN nor  of any other foreign country.

What a fool is this UNHCHR Navi Pillai ?

 

Navi Pillai is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, therefore   it is incorrect that I  call her a “ fool  “, but circumstances are such that I cannot do otherwise.  

 Navi Pillai goes to attend a summit in Bali  which was also attended by the Australian Prime Minister  Julia Gillard.  Navi Pillai had told National Times, “''I am highly concerned that detention in regional offshore processing centres such as in Nauru could result in indefinite detention and other human rights violations''  

When she was informed that the Australian Immigration Department has sent home dozens of Sri Lankans - from Christmas and Cocos islands - deemed not to have a refugee claim, Navi Pillai has said  Sri Lanka was still volatile, despite the end of the civil war in 2009. She has added,''Now that was a conflict area, matters have not stabilised as yet.''All the reports reaching me are that people are concerned over controls being imposed over them,….So I can understand if they'd be leaving out of fear or for their personal security, and it really cries out for all the refugee protections, asylum seeker protections to be made particularly applicable to them.''

This is what shows that she is a “ fool “ with  a warped mind, which prohibits her from looking at a problem with an open mind.  She has a psychological problem being the offspring of South African apartheid, racism, and living in poverty in the slums of South Africa’s segregated  residential areas.  She has not been able to rid  of that childhood  hatred, distrust and fear of those who maltreated  her, as a child of a segregated  ethnic group.

Hence looking at Sri Lanka with that psychologically wounded mind of hers she forgets that she is a jurist.  A jurist does not accept any thing on face value. A Jurist seeks proof without  even a reasonable doubt. 

But what  are the evidence on which  Navi Pillai  relies to state “Sri Lanka is  still volatile, despite the end of the civil war in 2009.” ? 

She relies on UK Channel 4,  anti Sri Lanka pro-terrorist Tamil Diaspora, pseudo human rights activists- the Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International , and  International Crisis Group.  But to what extent can she rely on information coming from them as reliable evidence acceptable in law?  To accuse Sri Lanka  on these “ evidence” most of them on cooked up stories without  eye witnesses or even the semblance of  circumstantial evidence.

Has she the “sacrosanct” UN High  Commissioner for Human Rights,  set foot on Sri Lanka  to  find out “where on earth” it is  and make a fact finding Mission ?  No, She relies on  nondescript persons and organisations which have  only collected hearsay evidence from the anti Sri Lanka pro-terrorist Tamil diaspora- most of them not having even visited Sri Lanka during or after terrorism..

We expect a United Nations Commissioner of Human Rights  to be open minded  without bias and prejudices able to evaluate evidence from those accusing  Sri Lanka,  as well as from  the 

Government and those people who know exactly what happened in  Sri Lanka, before she comes to a lopsided conclusion  that  “Sri Lanka is  still volatile, despite the end of the civil war in 2009.”
The so called asylum seekers  who leave Sri Lanka to Australia on ramshackle boats  hired by criminals dealing in human traffic  some of them   now cornered in  Nauru are economic refugees, and not people running away from Sri Lanka for fear of likely Sri Lankan atrocities committed against them. 

The  frightful  voyage they had  undertaken to escape  from the   Frankenstein Monster  back in Sri Lanka,  was in the hope that they will be  accepted as asylum seekers,  is nothing more than a story they had invented to  recounted to any gullible Australian  Immigration Officers. Unfortunately for the so called “ asylum seekers” ,the Australian  International Organisation for Migration has seen through their  “concocted  story”.

To a question asked by the  reporter Stephanie March of  ABC Radio Australia why the  number of Sri Lankans trying to reach Australia by boat has increased dramatically over the past 12 months, against  211 so-called irregular maritime arrivals from Sri Lanka last year, to  more than 5300 so far in 2012 ?

Richard Danziger, Chief of mission, International Organisation for Migration in Sri Lanka, had said that, “   many of those who have chosen to return to Sri Lanka rather than wait to be processed on Nauru or Australia originally left their homeland in search of work. You know that is often what we hear, people tell us they were just seeking better lives, jobs, money and so forth…..The asylum seekers who do chose to go home often return to tough financial times, with debts owing to the people smugglers who helped them get to Australia.”

But Pillai the UNHCHR does not want to accept that fact but she stands by what she had heard from some one or some video footage of doubtful origin put together to make a film by the UKChannel 4
Ms Pillay visited Australia last year, meeting with Ms Gillard, and visiting detention centres in the country, and said,  ''They were all [in] very good condition, but not the detainees. These are, after all, not people who are criminals and so they were handling the detention badly; many attempts at self-harm, and I'm still receiving reports of self-harm, suicide attempts and protests at the off-shore processing facilities. And these are all highly worrying - and unfortunately it was a predictable outcome.''

That is what she said,  but she did not think it is necessary to verify about the fears in Sri Lanka that made them take a precarious voyage  at high financial cost  and still higher risks to their lives. 
Pillai if she is  not “foolish” as I claim should have also gone to Sri Lanka to see for herself whether there is so much of hatred amoung the Sinhala Comlmunbity, against the Tamil Community and how the Government is treating the Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka.  If she makes the voyage to see for herself  the ground situation in Sri Lanka I am sure she will be surprised.


Sri Lanka is far from the apartheid South Africa in which Navi Pillai spent her childhood.  Sri Lanka is different,  quite opposed to the stories she had heard about the Sinhala majority committing atrocities against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Tamils and Sinhala have lived together for generations. 

The Tamils, Sinhala and Muslims have attended the same schools and enjoyed each others  cultural values, for instance  the Hindu-Sinhala New Year.   The Tamils even enjoyed their religious worship along side that of the Sinhala who shared the belief in the Hindu Gods despite their Buddhist philosophical engagements.

All communal problems started after India took to  expansionist politics and trained a group of disgruntled  Tamil youth in terrorism and let them loos in Sri Lanka in 1983. That was the beginning of three decades of terrorisms.

Now Navi Pillai believes, and trusts the White West,  who did not  help the poor Natives and the Tamil labour class in apartheid South Africa to find a way out of their suffering under apartheid.  Except for Olof Palme of Sweden, it is said that the  other Western Countries “ adopted a more ambivalent position”.

It was only after Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi who appeared in the scene of South African apartheid that the world  began to look at the danger of apartheid.  Therefore Navi Pillai should begin to think differently of the West and its Human Rights activists accusing  a developing country like Sri Lanka attempting put the Communities against each other  to continue their leadership over the world,  denying the developing countries to rise above their  under development and rob them of their independence.

Be it America and the rest of the West or the anti Sri Lanka Tamil Diaspora  they are all working for their own Agenda, and their accusation of developing countries is not well founded.  We know how America, France,  Germany, Italy and Canada among others  accused the Libyan Leader Gaddafi and ended up bombarding the whole of Libya just to eliminate Colonel Gaddafi and leave the country in complete disarray. The Libyan rebels are  now killing each other  no one intervening to settle matters and develop the country to bring it back to what it was under Colonel Gaddafi.

Do you see Navi Pillai how the Western political system works ? Is it not time you take time to think over whether the accusations being levelled against Sri Lanka are justified, and that at least now there should not be a change of attitude ?

It had recently been reported that it is likely that Navi Pillai may visit Sri Lanka to see for herself how Sri Lanka attends to the question of Human Rights.   If she comes to Sri Lanka she should come open minded leaving behind her bias and prejudice  against  Sri Lanka and forgetting all what others have said about the country , and see for her self and come to conclusion after an intelligent perception of the situation.

Impeachment of a Chief Justice.

There is an avalanche of articles, reports , editorials  by those who have been scandalised by the Government’s decision to impeach  the Chief Justice.  

Harim Pieries writes in the Island  of 8 November,2012 as follows: “….However, the Rajapaksa regime should well consider that its track record and practice of fighting with friends and falling out with those in the higher echelons of the state structure is not conducive to either good governance or the long term political interests of the Administration itself…..”

The Island news paper puts  the Army Commander and Chief Justice on the same footing. and  writes in its Editorial: “……They are striving to do to her what they did to Gen. Sarath Fonseka, whom they once called the best army commander in the world but unflinchingly vilified as a traitor when his presidential ambitions became known and he fell from grace…...”

Elmore Perera Attorney at Law writes: ….I well remember the hue and cry made by many lawyers when she was appointed to the Supreme Court, in 1997. By then I was already disillusioned  by the arrogant attitude displayed by many Judges when dealing with litigants and their counsel. ……... She has since displayed an exemplary judicial temperament and I have never seen or even heard of reports of her being deliberately rude or unfair. She has now reached the pinnacle of the judicial branch of the state…..”

Gomin Dayasiri Says, “….Justices are presumed to maintain higher standards in propriety since they hold the legal scales to distinguish the good from the bad…..”.

And the Association of  High Court Judges  and others say , “Civil society must gear itself to ensuring that justice is done to their Chief Justice. If justice is denied to her, Sri Lanka is in for turbulent times leading to anarchy. We can no longer go about our own business expecting that someone else will be the target.”

Karu Jayasuriya dissappointed UNP MP , told the media that, “.. the government has posed a great threat to judicial independence and there won't be democracy in the absence of an independent judiciary….”.

With regard to the matters relating to Tax evasion and other irregularities included in the impeachment motion against the CJ had not obviously been known to the President when Shirani Bandaranaike was appointed to the High Position. There is no screening  for  a CJ because normally one is selected from among the Judicial luminaries spotlessly clean and without reproach.

Therefore  the President cannot now be found fault  with for her appointment.  Gomin Dayasiri a prominent lawyer  himself admits she was a good judge.  She may not have known  that her husband’s activities would have led him to be accused for bribery and corruption, in which case there was no  conflict of interest  for   Shirani Bandaranaike to continuing as the CJ. 

But when charges of bribery and corruption was made against her husband  she should have resigned from her high position as the CJ to  avoid a conflict of interest.

Unfortunately in Sri Lanka which is coming up from a developing country status to be an Upper Middle Income Country, there are many  anti Sri Lanka forces all out to push it down the precipice to where it had been before. In that effort everything is seen in a negative light by the local opposition and the foreign enemies of the Nation. One cannot understand why everybody should not put their  shoulders to the wheels to push forward the country towards development and progress without each one hanging on watching for  political fall outs for their benefit without thinking of the country and the people at large;

Elimination of a ruthless terrorism has received no applause but rampant accusations for violation of human rights, war crimes, disappearances . The assassination  and disappearances of journalists have led Sri Lanka  to be  called a nation without press freedom. The  pushing  forward with progressive laws to make Sri Lanka a  poverty free developed nation has brought accusation of  interfering into the independence of judiciary.  When the remaining last batch of IDPs from  more than3000000 were finally settled and Menik Farm was closed  the International Community questioned why was that haste to close the Menik Farm, while the local opposition accused that the last batch of IDPs   said to have been settled down were  sleeping in the forest and under trees.

Now,  when a Judge has been impeached they howl as it is something that has been invented by the President Rajapakse and his family to  take revenge from the CJ for not making a favourable judicial decision  on  a Bill that was really not meant for the welfare of the Rajapakse family but to ameliorate the  living condition of the people and eliminate as far as possible poverty in Sri Lanka. 

Impeachments of judges are not undemocratic and it is not the  first time that it has happened  in Sri Lanka nor is it without precedents in other foreign governments .  Hence it is difficult to understand the wrath from many quarters locally and  from abroad. Most of those complaining that the Government is acting  unconstitutionally assume the  cause to be the President Rajapakse Government and Rajapakse Family.

In USA beginning from 10 May; 1796 when Judge George Turner was impeached  for bribery  and levy of fines  without trial , seventy one cases of impeachment are  sited in Wikipedia, until the last Judge Samuel Kent  was impeached on 11 May, 2009 for sexual abuse. “ In Great Britain conviction on an impeachment has resulted in fine and imprisonment, and even in execution, whereas in the United States the penalties extend no further than removal and disqualification from office.”

Therefore an Impeachment is normal procedure when a Judge appears to have  contravened the law. The fact that the CJ was appointed by the same government that impeaches  the CJ is an irrelevant argument . In any case the charges have to be proved for the impeachment to take effect.

When will the Sri Lankans rise above political prejudices to understand that actions progressive and beneficial  to the country should be taken even if they seem unpalatable to those who sees an opening to make it an occasion  to make political mileage from it.

When Divineguma Bill  proposed  by the government shows an underlying effort  of interest for the development of the  country one has to defend it,  without accusing others who defend such effort  are  motivated by political or personal reasons.  It is only the educated intelligentsia that is prepared to manifest and demonstrate against the Government for personal reasons than for the benefit of the people and the Country.  A good example is  FUTA that went on strike for three months and profited in collecting money  from even the Mercantile Union of Bala Tampoe  now preparing for another strike on flimsy grounds as they have to do some thing to justify their collecting funds from anti Government forces.

JVP which has lost all its political honesty, and lost its support from the people are trying to hang on to  any straw,  even the Impeachment Motion to avoid sinking into a political morass.  So is UNP which has nominated two vociferous UNP MPS who do not know what they are talking most of the time to the PSC.

The Colombo Telegraph reports that:
“An interesting constitutional issue has arisen consequent to the determination of the Supreme Court in the matter of the Divineguma Bill. The Supreme Court has ruled that as the Northern Provincial Council has not been constituted, it was not possible for the Bill to have been sent to the Northern Provincial Council for the expression of its views. However, the Court has also ruled that the Governor of the Northern Province could not have expressed a view on behalf of the Northern Provincial Council. As such, the Court has determined that the Bill must be proceeded with on the basis that the Northern Provincial Council has not agreed to the passing of the Bill.” 

But the Article 154G((3) of the constitution does not  bar the Supreme Court taking a judicial decision in favour of the said Bill  as it  had been accepted by eight of the nine Provincial Councils. In the North there is no Provincial Council as there had been no elections, but the Administration in the North is nevertheless functioning until the establishment of a Provincial Council with a Governor having the authority for the Administration  of the North.  Therefore the Governor’s Signature is legally accepted for any matter  which would have come under a Provincial Council if one was there.

If the SC refuses to accept the signature of the Governor it means all acts, letters, and documents signed by the Governor in the North PC are ultra vires.  This cannot be so as the Governor has  been given the authority by the Government to act  taking responsibility for the Administration of the North until   a Provincial Council in the North is established.

 If  Administration has to be stopped in the North for want of a PC then every thing would be chaotic.  Therefore a democratic method has to be found to allow Northern Administration to function so that  the people in the North are  given the same rights and benefits as the people of the rest of the  country under  Provincial Councils.  The democratic method is empowering a Governor to Administer the North in the absence of a PC.

In the above report of the Colombo Telegraph, if we were to accept it as a correct, interpretation, there is a contradiction in its last sentence.The last sentence reads: “As such, the Court has determined that the Bill must be proceeded with on the basis that the Northern Provincial Council has not agreed to the passing of the Bill.”

 In stating that ” the Bill must be proceeded with on the basis that the Northern Provincial Council has not agreed to the passing of the Bill”, the Supreme Court presumes the existence of the Northern Provincial Council.
If so why the negative presumption ? Why not ” proceed on the basis that the Northern Provincial Council has agreed to the passing of the Bill.” ?

Hence, the SC decision on the matter seems incorrect  as she did not accept the authority of the Governor over the North Provincial Council Area, denying the people of the whole of Sri Lanka the benefits to be accrued from the Divineguma Bill.

Two days to go for American Presidential Elections.

Barrack Obama a non militant politician who was not against the majority but who wanted to work with the majority whites, bringing in the minorities into the  main political stream seem to have failed to appeal to the mass of the American.  But again the opposition to Obama’s  progressive policies came from the richer few who always kept  the American masses on a myth of  rich and a powerful Nation without a challenge to its  leadership in the world.  That  was the idealism that was respected and loved by the American populous.  They were the ones that were racist and believed in  capitalism to keep the rich white  American society afloat allowing the larger American population to be satisfied with the  bread crumbs falling from their sumptuous tables.

 President Barrack Obama came with progressive  ideas. He wanted to really change the American establishment and the attitudes of the American people..  He started by signing the close down of the torture camps.  But there were those against it and they won over the President Barrack Obama. 

The President Barrack Obama’s greatest challenge was the unprecedented financial crisis  brought about by the rich American companies and Banks.  And when he wanted to bail out the Insurance Companies and the Banks to restart an economic growth, the monies given to the companies were used to pay large bonuses to retiring Directors.  Then when he proposed a health care service that was affordable by the poor Americans the Republicans came head on against it and even today Matt Romney is to revitalise the Medicare as against more progressive Obamacare. He wants to give in to the rich American financial lobby.

He wanted peace and fight against terrorism where ever it is.  But he put the wrong person Hillary Clinton in charge of the Sate Department.   Hillary Clinton was far behind Barrack Obama’s progressive ideas to change America.  Hillary Clinton recruited  people such as Robert Black from Bush Administration to State Department.  How then can one expect the President Barrack Obama’s American Administration  be any different from what it had been under Bush.  The State Department  and even the Treasury Department was a government within a Government carrying on the same old American politics.

The President Barrack Obama was made to believe that peace to America is fundamental, and that peace to the rest of the world is secondary.  Hillary Clinton cultivated the Western White Nations as friends leaving the rest of the world outside dependent on it.

 Hillary Clinton accepted as terrorists only those who rebelled or terrorised America or the  friendly White countries .  The terrorist of the developing countries for her were freedom fighters.  She made the Americans hate and believe that  the Al Qaida terrorists that killed over three thousand innocent Americans were  their terrorists, and the terrorists in Sri Lanka who  massacred the innocent , the intelligentsia, the politicians and the security forces were mere freedom fighters and should be supported  by America.  These were the foreign policies Hillary Clinton  established  which the President Barrack Obama was forced to follow and which made him unpopular.

Bush’s war in Iraq and Afghanistan was not a war the Americans wanted , but Barrack Obama who wanted to bring back the American Soldiers,  handing over  the defence of Afghanistan and Iraq to the respective  Governments Forces , blindly followed the war mongering European and the Western Governments into  continuing these wars without seeing an end to them.

Presidents of America had to give into different lobbies to retain their political power of his Administration..  Hence they cultivated the Jewish Lobby which did not allow them  to plan out a more progressive way out of  Middle East and establish peace in the area.  President  Obama was made to follow the same established political system.  He could not establish the change on which he came to power, bring  peace to the world  and settle problems in dialogue.

He had to give into the Latin American lobby, hence he had to continue with the trade embargo to Cuba.  He had to give in to the Western friends, therefore he followed Sarkozy who wanted to eliminate Colonel Gaddafi for personal reasons as some  continue to say.  He is following the Jewish lobby and the European community  and wants a war against Iran . 

His  war mongering Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton wanted sanctions against Iran for the sale of oil.  She did not care what effect it would have on the developing Nations.  She wanted to be friendly with India as it is a way to check the growing political power of China . She made an Official visit to Tamil Nadu to meet  the Chief Minister Jayalalitha kicking protocol on the “backside” , because she wanted to please the anti Sri Lanka Tamil Diaspora .

All these were out side the Progressive Change President Obama voiced during his Presidential election campaign.   Instead of making friends with developing countries such as, China, Russia, Iran, Burma, Sri Lanka and so on Hillary Clinton treated them as unfriendly nations. Romney is going a step further  calling China a currency Manipulator .  You can see from this type of statement what changes  Republican Romney Administration will propose.

There is a different way to deal with countries that do not peddle American methodology.  It is to step out side aggressive “ we are correct” attitude and stop  impose American authority, but use more direct contract and resort to a positive dialog where both sides are heard and both sides understand that the world wants peace and not war and aggression.

Despite all this shortcomings of the President Barrack Obama’s Administration, it is in the larger interest of America that President Barrack Obama is re elected for four more years.  Barrack Obama was elected for the first time  in 2008, and he had no previous experience.  Now after four years as the President of America he is more politically matured.  He will not allow himself to be manipulated by the politicians with  hackneyed political views. The President Obama was not allowed to go with his own progressive policies.  To begin with the Republicans stood against what ever progressive  people friendly projects that was proposed.

It had always been the Democratic Party that brought about Changes to America and American people at large. President Barrack Obama is himself  a  symbol of that  progressive change in America.

Republicans had been reactionaries and war mongering.  The Republican Party appeals to the racists, reactionaries, rich enterprises and those backward looking groups.  Therefore under him America will go back to what it was under  Bush, Regan or Nixon.

President Barrack Obama had to depend on people that he did not really  know about and those who were disappointed by the failure of their own political ambitions.  If much of what President Obama had promised had not been done it was because of  those who he had  recruited to carry out his Administration.

Mitt Romney if elected on the Republican ticket  cannot give  any thing other than what  other republican Presidents have given to America.  The Washington Money makers will continue to fill their own pockets and prepare America for another financial crisis.

Therefore, the American people as they are intelligent should vote  en mass to re-elect the President Barrack Obama for  four more years  to enable him to carry forward his progressive social and economic proposals, and settle some of the problems of the world attending his intervention with  a more  mature attitude to bring about peace in the world. 

He should also be given a chance  to scrap still remaining reactionary American Laws that made America withdraw its contribution to the UNESCO for its recognising Palestine as a Member State.  He should also be given a chance to settle the problems in Middle East, forcing Israel to stop its  refusal to live in peace and harmony with its neighbours.

Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review working Group in Geneva.

Today the UPR working group  is to review the human rights record of all the 192UN member States..  Apparently Sri Lanka is on the top of the list and 99 member states are  to make 180 recommendations on Sri Lanka, with Navy Pillai making her own recommendations.
All that is a paradox  as they who come to question Sri Lanka  do not come with clean hands. Some of them are more cruel violators of human rights in developing countries.

But Sri Lanka  which has rid itself of terrorism that caused 30 years of suffering to its people is selected to be assailed by global  perpetrators of human rights violations at the UPR session in Geneva.  It is worth noting that the  President of USA  from the Democratic Party is facing strong opposition to his re-election for a second term despite the fact that the Democratic Party stands for the welfare of the poor with  programmes like medical  and welfare facilities, against racism and slavery. 
But  Barack Obama who was elected, with new hope  of return of American Soldiers from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and scrapping of centres of torture such as the Guantanamo camps has disappointed the people.  Though the President  Obama signed an executive order for the closure of the Guantanamo camp in January 2009, it has never been closed.

The USA State Department did nothing progressive since coming into office to  justify the re-election of the President Obama who was acclaimed as a new hope for the American people who suffered under Bush administration.  But US State Department headed by Hillary Clinton opened up new theatres of war and America became a war mongering nation supported by Sarkozy’s France, and the International Community.  They gave false assurances to the UNSecurity council  that it will only survey the air space over Libya and got the NATO forces to bomb Libya devastating the country and massacring the civilians.

Colonel Gaddafi who the International Community treated as a Dictator  was a father figure  to his people. Under him the Libyans enjoyed a higher standard of living.  Today after America and the International community helped in the assassination of Gaddafi the very people  America wanted to save from the “Dictator” Gaddafi are revolting against the Americans.

Are these countries of the International Community the symbols of respecters  of human rights who try to judge Sri Lanka which did not go around violating human rights of people of other countries ?  Sri Lanka fought a war against its own terrorists in its own country.

In Syria where America and the International community who arm rebels against  the Bashar Al Asad government  for their new policy of  regime change, seem to have created a  Frankenstein which has gone out of control.

In Afghanistan the war does not seem to be ending.  In Pakistan USA with its Drones  are killing more and more Civilians.  It was recently that an American  womens’ Organisation manifested against drone attacks on civilians in Pakistan. 

In Cuba a 15 year old trade embargo  is the worst violation of human rights against a Nation. So is the withdrawal of American Contribution to the budget of UNESCO for  respecting the decision of  its General Assembly and accepting Palestine as a Member State of UNESCO.

The Sanctions against Iran for sale of its oil to developing countries is also a violation of human rights.

About Canada the Press TV reports of abuse of human rights of the Canadian people, and yet Stephen Harper the Prime Minister of Canada is  a violent accuser of Sri Lanka for violation of human rights of the Government of Sri Lanka.  The report reads:     “By way of soothing internal and international concerns, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper also said while trying to fight back his tears, "The government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly. We are sorry.

These emotional moments of Mr. Harper were soon forgotten and the violation of the rights of the aborigines continued systematically.

The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) says Canada is ignoring the basic human rights of the poorest and most vulnerable Canadian women. FAFIA “spokesperson Sharon McIvor says, “Canada is the home of serious violations of the human rights of Aboriginal women and girls.”

The Sydney Morning Herald reported about human rights abuses in Australia, another country which often points its finger at Sri  Lanka for violation of human rights. The report says “Those same individuals who will shake their heads and tut-tut the abuses that occur on foreign shores will minimise or dismiss Australia's track record of human rights abuses, painting anyone who dares to speak critically as an unpatriotic endorser of a skewed black-armband view of history.

But the problem is not that journalists dare to expose human rights abuses committed here. It is that they trade in stereotypes centred around racial minorities and class.

In Australia almost one in five women will be sexually assaulted and almost one in three will be physically assaulted, often in a domestically violent situation, according to the Whit Ribbon Foundation.  Boys and men also experience unacceptable levels of physical and sexual abuse. “
Each country will be allocated one minute and 20 seconds to question Sri Lanka during the review, which will be overseen by a troika of nations chaired by India and including Spain and Benin
What is the track record of each member of the troika overseeing the questions put to Sri Lanka  by other countries who themselves have not come with their hands clean with regard to violation of human rights.

Spain has been accused of violation of human rights on many occasions, one such case is the trial against the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon , “ The actions taken in the Garzón case demonstrate improper interference with the judiciary, in violation of Spain’s obligations to protect an independent judiciary, including in cases of investigating serious international law violations at home. As Judge Garzón is internationally recognized as a leader in the fight to end impunity for mass human rights violations and efforts to strengthen universal jurisdiction, the case against him will likely have a chilling effect on those lawyers and judges willing to pursue accountability at home and abroad.”
Benin is also a  violator of human rights, the worst case reported in Afroil News is , “Female genital mutilation (FGM), a widely practised and very harmful tradition, is the worst substantial human rights violation in Benin, civil society groups hold. Other human rights violations in the stable democracy included arbitrary arrest and torture, but on a much lesser scale than FG”
India is a burning cauldron of violation of human rights International Dalit Solidarity Network reported, “ At a press conference, Co-ordinator of the International Dalit Solidarity Network, Rikke Nöhrlind pointed out that victims of caste based discrimination suffer a hidden apartheid of segregation, modern-day slavery and other forms of discrimination, stating that “This issue has been skilfully hidden by certain governments and Dalits are simply being treated as lesser human beings and denied justice.”
Therefore without going into details one sees the farce being enacted in Geneva accusing Sri Lanka for the defence of which no country came forward when the ruthless terrorists were massacring its people practically every day by suicide bombers, claymore bombs, grenade lobbers, snipers and pistol toting terrorists.  Its innocent people were massacred in large numbers, its intellectuals, Ministers, members of the Parliament, Army Officers and the Police officers were assassinated almost on a daily basis. And there were then no Human Rights Watch, International Crisis Group, Amnesty International nor the expatriate Tamils who came forward to defend their suffering Tamil kith and kin.
Therefore the Government of Sri Lanka said No, No more assassinations and started its own military operations against the  group of ruthless terrorists. All governments  said that the Sri Lanka Government Armed Forces cannot win against the terrorists and advised it to negotiate for a peace settlement.  The peace negotiations were sabotaged by the terrorists themselves. Sri Lanka was not given any other alternative but fight to the last,  and that it did and  came out victorious.
It is only now the International Community which were then not there to defend Sri Lanka against the terrorists, coming forward( now) to accuse it for violation of human rights.  The International Community has messed up in every thing they had undertaken.  They have failed financially, socially, politically and in all their so called attempts to settle political problems in other countries.  They have failed in their disastrous policies of  regime change and their right 2 protect. The International Communities  have lost all their claims to leadership in the world.
Under these circumstances it is best that USA, UN with its Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai, and the rest of the International Community leave Sri Lanka alone to settle its problems in her own way without interfering into to its  internal affairs. Sri Lanka knows better than any one of the Nations of the International Community to manage its own  financial, social and political matters in its own way.