It was
significant and symbolic of America’s continued aggression towards developing
Nations of the world, that on the very day the USA Delegation at the UNHRC Council in Geneva presented its
resolution against Sri Lanka, a series of Car Bombs in Shia area in Bagdad killed 50 Iraqi civilians as the reminder of
the 10th anniversary of the
US led Campaign against Iraq.
It is also
significant that American State Department’s retrograde attitude manifests to champion the dead terrorists and
causing unhappiness to a people
beginning to make their lives anew after suffering under terrorism for
30 years, on the day the new Pope Francis is being installed in his papal function to bring peace to the
world.
President
Barack Obama sought the vote of the
people on his famous campaign slogans of “yes we can” and “hope and change”,
but his State Department did not hear his words
its ears remaining turned to the
past hears only the voices of Eisenhower, Edgar Hoover, Foster
Dulles, Bush and the rest of the hard core Republicans.
President
Barack Obama is only a passing phenomenon, in an American State Department that
does not accommodate new thinking of progress and peace in the world, and emancipation of the
under priviledged. Those are for the US State Department words of Socialism
which it does not want to accept in the great American tradition of the past that was ever ready to kill and
destroy any one that proposed progressive
ideas with the slightest trace of Socialism, as it happened in Guatemala,
Iran, Congo, Cuba,
Chile
and so on.
The
progressive voices like that of Ranking Member Faleomavaega, are for American
State Department unimportant distractions. The philosophy behind his plea on
behalf of Sri Lanka
is difficult for the bureaucrats of the US Sate Department to understand.
Even a
simple American citizen Amy Poirier who had witnessed for herself the
progressive undertakings of the
Government of the President Mahinda
Rajapakse after elimination of terrorists , was
of high praise to Sri Lanka and demanded the President and the
State Secretary to withdraw the resolutions against Sri
Lanka it was proposing to place before the UNHRCouncil in Geneva.
Amy Poirier
showed the greatness to which an ordinary American citizen could rise while the USState Departments is in a political
morass despite the words for “hope and change “ the President Barrack Obama so
well articulated “ yes we can” through
out his election campaign.
What does
America want to prove to the world in passing a resolution against Sri Lanka,
which, though not accepted by the US State
Department, has after having rid itself of the greatest menace to the country’s
unity and progress , began a social, economic and cultural revolution hitherto
unknown to Sri Lanka, in the waves of which Sri Lanka blossoming forth into a
new era of prosperity with looming signs of
Communal Unity in the wake of a relentless effort of reconciliation ?
Take the US
resolution against Sri Lanka ,which
begins by “Welcoming and acknowledging the progress made by the Government of
Sri Lanka in rebuilding infrastructure, demining, resettling the majority of
internally displaced persons, and noting
nonetheless that considerable work lies ahead in the areas of
justice,reconciliation and resumption of livelihoods, and stressing the importance of the full participation of
local populations, including representatives of civil society and minorities,
in these efforts,
Taking note
of the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission of Sri Lanka
and its findings and recommendations, and acknowledging its possible contribution
to the process of national reconciliation in Sri Lanka,”
In the
above extract, “considerable work lies ahead in the
areas of justice, reconciliation and resumption of livelihoods, and stressing the importance of the full participation of
local populations, including representatives of civil society and minorities,
in these efforts, “
This is monstrously
absurd, as justice of Sri Lanka is a matter of Sri Lanka and our justice is commendable and it is not America which is going to point out about
correction of laws, where as Americas laws
are very much to be desired.
The
following extract speaks for itself:
“Almost everything about
the American system is wrong. Grand juries are a rubber stamp for the
prosecutors; assets are routinely frozen or seized in ex parte actions
on the basis of false government affidavits, so targets don't have the
resources to pay avaricious American counsel and are thrust into the hands of
public defenders, who are usually just Judas goats for the prosecutors. The
prosecutors poison the jury pool with a media lynching at the start; bail is
often outrageously high, and prosecutions and ancillary proceedings from the
SEC, IRS, etc., drag on for a whole decade, all contrary to the Fifth, Sixth,
and Eighth Amendments. The plea bargain
system, for which prosecutors would be disbarred in most other serious
countries, enables prosecutors to threaten everyone around the target with
indictment if they don't miraculously recall, under careful government
coaching, inculpatory evidence. Prosecutors win 95 per cent of their cases,
90 per cent of those without a trial, and people who exercise their
constitutionally guaranteed right to go to trial receive more than three times
the sentence they receive if they cop a plea, as a penalty for exercising their
rights.”“The civil courts are the bread and butter of the vast medieval legal guild. Over 70 per cent of American cases would be inadmissible in Canada or Britain as frivolous or vexatious litigation, and the routine American practice of marketing contingent fees is just a tawdry racket.” (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/conrad-black/us-justice-system_b_1110623.html)
So much for American Justice.
Then lets
take another extract, some of what is stated are hilariously absurd such as , “
considerable work lies ahead in………..reconciliation
and resumption of livelihoods, and stressing
the importance of the full participation of local populations, including
representatives of civil society and minorities, in these efforts, “
Sri Lanka has just come out of a period of
suffering under terrorism,. The
terrorism lasted 30 years . It is only
four years after terrorism and of course considerable work lies ahead before it
comes to what Sri Lanka
expects it to be, and we need not have a
US Resolution for us to say so.
But as far
as USA very developed and much richer than poor Sri Lanka has not according to a “ Field Hearing in New Orleans on Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita: Outstanding Need, Slow Progress Hearing before Homeland Security Committee”, it is stated ,”….little more than year and a
half since Hurricane Katrina and the unfinished work before us is still
immense……you find that some of the basic
services that people expect in a
civilised society-shelter, public safety, health care, are still not there for
too many people in the city. (Senator Lieberman)
With regard
to reconciliation and resumption of livelihood, I give an extract from an article:
“Truth and Reconciliation Commission in America”, by Clay Jenkinson.
“Against
these seemingly impossible odds, with the weight of the world's most powerful
and acquisitive people saying, "assimilate or get out of my way,"
American Indians have somehow survived. The resilience of Indians in the face
of disease, defeat, pauperization, and racism is one of the greatest examples
of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Indian culture is still
enormously stressed as the 21st century begins, but it is hanging on and
starting to recover…………… I believe we cannot move forward, we cannot heal the
land, and we cannot heal the peoples who share the land, white and Indian
alike, until we engage in what is going to be a very long, very hard, very
painful, and very unsettling conversation. Indeed, I believe that we need to create in America
something like the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions that sprang up in South Africa in
1995, as that troubled country moved from centuries of Apartheid towards majority
rule. I don't see it happening anytime soon, and I can imagine how profoundly
most white Americans would resist that idea. But we need to do it and we
will all be better once we get down on the mat and wrestle with the past and
present with our souls open.”
This is only a few instances of America telling
others what to do when it has not done to its own people any of what they
dictates others to do. That is the
absurdity of the US
resolution against Sri Lanka.
Then continuing on that first paragraph on
which the rest of the resolution is based, it is stated:
“and stressing the importance of
the full participation of local populations, including representatives of civil
society and minorities, in these efforts, “
Sri Lanka has always included all those who
are concerned with, in its development programmes. Each political party has its election
manifesto according to which the party that comes into power and forms a
Government organises its programs of development organises different aspects of
governance. It need not have foreign
NGOs or foreign surveying missions to carry out its own political manifesto.
Therefore,
without the US Resolution against Sri Lanka having got to stress the importance of full participation of local population, Sri
Lanka Government consisting of educated and intelligent people have no lessons
to learnt from USA or any other Agency how to Govern a country having done that
since its independence, and Exceptionally well after elimination of the
terrorists, what ever accusation USA and its allies make about the last phase
of the war against terrorism.
US Resolution against Sri Lanka
stresses the “minority participation”.
Is there in America
a Minority participation ? Apparently not as American Indians remain
apart. It is only recently the Black
Americans had been allowed to participate in certain matters. It is only with President Barack Obama’s remarkable
intrusion into “high” politics that we see more Black American
participation in American State
affairs. But for that matter America is not without racial
prejudices.
That makes
US Resolution against Sri
Lanka just bunkum !!!
“The election of Barack Obama failed to usher in a post-racial US, with a new poll showing that 51 percent of Americans hold explicitly anti-black views. That figure is up from 48 percent in 2008, the year America elected its first black president.
Those expressing implicit anti-black attitudes also spiked from 49 percent to 56 percent over the same four-year period, the Associated Press found in a poll released Saturday.
Racial prejudice against blacks cut clearly across America’s left-right political divide, despite perceptions to the contrary. While 79 percent of Republicans willingly expressed racial prejudice when answering questions measuring explicit racism (as opposed to 32 percent among Democrats), the implicit racism test showed that a majority of Republicans (64 percent) and Democrats (55 percent) held implicit anti-black feelings.”
(http://rt.com/usa/majority-americans-racist-poll-378/)
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