If the Ambassador in Geneva
Ms.Tamara Kunanayakam is to be removed from Geneva now it would be a great
injustice. Sri Lanka in such a move will have
much to loose. Tamara Kunanayakam had
brilliantly demonstrated of what calibre she is made in defending Sri Lanka
against the most unconcerned violator of human rights and war criminals the
United States of America paradoxically of President Barack Obama, man who
presented himself as one who had been
working for the underpriveldged poor Americans and stood for justice and
against war.
Sri Lanka has been falsely
accused for the sake of a few million dollars coming from the pro-Terrorist “Tamils’
for Obama ” campaign, by the American State Department, for discriminating against the minority Tamils and
for killing Tamil civilians during the
last phase of the elimination of terrorists.
In that campaign of false hood, engaging
the UK Channel 4 to “ prepare” false evidence, the symbolic contradiction of
that falsehood was the presence of our Ambassador to Geneva Tamara Kunanayakam
coming from the very Tamil Community Sri Lanka is being accused of denying
their rights as citizens along side the Sinhala majority.
If Tamara Kunanayakam is removed
now it would be the greatest weakness of
this government who is unable to use appropriate personalities to counter
attack false accusations levelled at it.
We see how USA is using every available
material turning it to a seemly evidence
for accusing a sovereign state. For
instance America had been for long using Aung San Suu Kyl
against the Burmese government, and now using the Blind Chinese dissident Chen
from Shandong province who is supposed to have
campaigned against forced abortions
under China’s
“ one Child ” policy, as a means to accuse the Chinese Government for violation
of human rights.
And we unfortunately are unable
to use our own Ambassador who did not mince her words in attacking the
falsehood of American accusations
levelled at her motherland, her country Sri Lanka, as a symbol of the
Governments treatment of all its citizens without distinction of colour, race,
or language.
The presence of Tamara Kunanayakam as the Ambassador of Sri
Lanka to Geneva
ridicules the TNA’s accusation against the Government of Sri Lanka that it denies the Tamils their rights and
aspirations.
If the Defence Ministry of Sri Lanka wants to make Tamara Kunanayakam
a scapegoat to escape from the responsibility
of the failure to have lost the battle against the American Resolution against
Sri Lanka, the reason for the debacle is to be found else where.
The choice of the Sri Lanka delegates for the 19th Session of the Human
Rights Council was wrong and not made with any foresight of the end result. The Minster of External Affairs Professor
G.L.Peiris should have been given his rightful place to lead the Delegation.
The Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe
was a wrong choice, his only qualification seems to be his ability to
articulate well. But that is not what was
necessary at the Council. Professor G.L.Peiris may not be a forceful speaker but he is able to
present his case more appropriately, more convincingly and with confidence. He was relegated to the back seat in the
Council.
Mahinda Samarasinghe was out
there to get the credit if the American Resolution was defeated. If he was the Government’s choice why could
not it have been Dayan Jayatilleke or Rajiva Wijesinghe. Either of them could have done a better job
than Mahinda Samarasinghe.
What was Shenuka Seneviratne doing their in Geneva and to what extent was her
contribution, if there was any useful to the Delegation? She must have been Mahinda Seneviratne’s
choice, and may have been present to destabilise Tamara Kunanayakam. A better
choise would have been Dr. Shudharshini
Fernandupulle
The correct person to have
presented the arguments against the resolution at the last session at which the voting was taken should
have been the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Geneva Her Excellency Tamara
Kunanayakam and not the Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe. She was a forceful speaker, she was sincere,
determined, and had a convincing way of presenting the facts against the
American resolution.
Tamara Kunanayakam is one of our Sri Lankan Tamils- a woman we
could all be proud of. Why should she be
sacrificed when the cause for the loss of the resolution is to be
found else where ?
It was carefully prepared by India . India
was sure that Sri Lanka was
going to win and India
knew that some member states were still undecided which way to vote. India
also knew that those member States could be made to abstain from voting by an
appropriate diplomatic move by India.
It was at the precise moment India declared its intention to vote with America. If India
waited till the last minute to vote in favour of the American resolution ,
the member states who were wavering would have already voted against the
resolution, hence India
declared its intention to vote against Sri Lanka well
in advanced.
We lost because of the back
stabbing of India
and not because of Tamara Kunanayakam.
It is in the interest of the Government to give credit to all Sri
Lankans for their efforts without discriminating against race, colour, or
religion.
Therefore the President should
intervene without delay in the case of the Ambassador Tamara Kunanayakam before
an administratrive error is committed in the External Affairs Ministry to transfer
Tamara Kunanaykam out of Geneva.
If she were to continue to work
in Geneva she will be a more mature and a clever diplomat later, an asset to Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights
Council when China and Russia, two of our friends, have completed their terms.
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