His Excellency the Permanent
Delegate of ………..( delegates from 47 countries) )
Your Excellency
Most of the Developing
countries of today got their independence after the second world
war. They depended on their rich colonial rulers for their
development. Though the wealth of these Colonial rulers came through the
exploitation of the colonies they were not generous in helping
their former colonies to develop into self sufficient Sovereign States.
Aid for developing countries came
from USA
with conditions to discourage Communist or Socialist influence.. USA established
the IMF which gave loans laying down rules to develop the countries
according to their plans.
All the Aid programmes of USA and the
wealthy West were a “ debt trap “ for the developing
Nations. They use these Aid programmes as threats for the developing countries
to stay within their circle of influence. Any country which were acting
against their interest were punished by trade embargos, and sanctions.
Often without concern for the suffering of men women and children as it
happened in Iraq
where large numbers of children died due to lack of medicine resulting from the
American sanctions.
USA used its dreaded CIA to
change regimes which did not follow their system of government. In 1950s USA through its CIA removed the President of
Guatemala Jacobo Arbenz, Salvador Allende in Chile,
Mosaddeq in Iran and Patrice
Lumumba in Congo.
Many are the developing countries that suffered under USA’s Foreign Policy,
which was planned to thwart the development of third world countries, and
punish those dare not accept their dictates. USA did not assist in the
development of the third world countries, but put barriers to their
development.
Now USA uses its CIA
more discretely for regime change, as it has found a new means to
do the same by resorting to Human Rights, Accountability, war crimes, and war
tribunals as arms to interfere in to Sovereign States, and stop their
development and progress. USA
uses the UNO and its different agencies to punish countries. USA stopped its budgetary contribution to UNESCO
because it dare accept Palestine as a Member State.
Today, USA has adopted its Foreign Policy not to
counter Communism, but to establish a political strategy to assert
its leadership against rival powers such as China
and Russia.
It does not allow the development of multiethnic countries, and resort to
balkanising them.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, International Crisis Group, International Jurists, Media Forum
now take the place of former covert intervention by the CIA.
Sri Lanka is a country which is
only seeking to develop itself and bring progress into the country and
happiness to the people after suffering under a ruthless terrorism for nearly
thirty years. But
USA
and the International Community instead of supporting the democratically
elected government in place in Sri Lanka
and help in its development projects, which would assure its
reconciliation process, support the pro-terrorist expatriate Tamil groups
and Associations such as the Global Tamil Forum to divide Sri Lanka to set up a separate Tamil State.
President Barack Obama has not
changed the aggressive self-serving Foreign Policy of the USA State Department,
but unfortunately made it worse.
Therefore Your
Excellency, I as an ordinary citizen of Sri Lanka, pray you not to be a partner
to this deplorable plan of the USA State Department and be defiant
to say NO to the USA Resolution against Sri Lanka that it is proposing to present
at this session of the UNHR Council.
Trusting in you to stop this
objectionable attitude of USA
towards a developing country, by refusing to vote for the USA Resolution
against Sri Lanka,
I remain, yours respectfully,
Charles.S.Perera
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His Excellency Permanent Delegate for Angola, UN Human Rights Council, Geneva.
Your Excellency,
Sri
Lanka stands accused by USA demanding accountability
for its legitimate right of eliminating a ruthless terrorist Group that
devastated the Country, massacred innocent people, assassinated, a
President of Sri Lanka, its Ministers, Security Officers, Intellectuals, an
Indian Prime Minster, an
Army Commander, and gravely wounded the
Commander of the Armed Forces, and a President.
USA
considers Sri Lanka
a violator of human rights for having eliminated terrorism militarily, and
considers its Armed Forces are responsible for the death of 10 to 40000 Tamil
civilians in the last phase of its military operations against
terrorists. In making that exaggerated assessment USA State Department, conveniently leaves out the humanitarian acts of the Armed
Forces during that war risking their lives to rescue 300 000
Tamil Civilians from the terrorists who were keeping them as human shields.
The prime Mover of this
accusation against Sri Lanka is the US Assistant Secretary of State
for South and Central Asia Robert O’Blake, who when he was the Ambassador of
Sri Lanka had very close contact with the hierarchy of the Sri Lanka
terrorists. For him they were rebels, and he opposed a military solution
against terrorism in Sri
Lanka, and made every effort to stop the
military operations. It was said that the USA was planning a Commando
Operation to take the terrorist hierarchy to safety. It was
that failure, which is the reason for the present USA
resolutions against Sri
Lanka.
As a Sri Lankan I am so
sad that my poor country and its people that suffered nearly 30 years of
terrorism, which was finally removed by a very competent government with a
heroic Armed Forces to give us peace and a new lease life, is being
relentlessly accused for violation of human rights, and war crimes .
The US State Department has
admitted that it does not put all terrorists in to the same basket.
Therefore, for the US State Department those who take arms against the ruling
government and massacre and terrorise the people and assassinate the
Ministers and Government Officials are only rebels, and only those
who takes arms to terrorise Americans are the only ones who deserve
to be called “ terrorists”.
It is a very dangerous
assumption, which would be a means for” change of regimes” in developing
countries, by arming rebels against a government in power.
This move of the US State
Department has come to be criticised and condemned by none other than a USA
Congressman Mr. Eni F.H. Faleomavaega at the US House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee hearing on Asia and the Pacific
held on 26 February,2013.
I make this appeal Your
Excellency, to you to be honest to yourself and speaking to your own heart to
understand the wrong US State Department is doing to my country Sri Lanka, and
NOT vote for the US resolution against Sri Lanka.
In order to help you in your decision, I pray
you read the statement of the US Congressman Mr.Eni
F.H.Faleomavaega which I have attached.
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