This
morning President Barrack Obama said he is concerned with the Sovereignty of
Ukraine. It is surprising how President Barrack Obama while being concerned about Ukraine ’s
Sovereignty, allows his US State
Department to interfere into the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka with an Agenda of breaking up the territorial
integrity of that country, and move resolutions demanding an International
Investigation to inquire in to Sri
Lanka ’s elimination of terrorism.
What has USA to gain by harassing Sri Lanka
?
If it USA
is concerned with the Tamils of the North of Sri Lanka, then USA should bring
the parties together to settle their problems in dialog instead passing
resolutions against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in Geneva.
To-day the
rebel forces in Syria are withdrawing, despite an opposition to the regime of el
Assad saying that they have not given up
their battle, Syrians have a respite
during which to evaluate the wisdom of
their revolt against the regime of Bachar el Assad-their leader.
All
internal problems of countries could be solved by the governments and their
people if they are left alone without
outside intervention to help those who rebel against the regime in place. Even in Thailand the situation is changing and the opposition to the government
is considerably less and people begin to accept that aggressivity is
destructive and it is only a dialogue between the warring parties that may pay
dividends.
In Ukraine the population around Kiev are clamouring to form a pro-European
government and President Viktor Yanukovych who was opposed to it was forced to
step down, while the people in Crimea
have requested Russia to intervene to stop fall outs from Kiev .
If America is wise
it could play the role of a mediator to stop belligerence and bring
dissenting parties to ease the situation, but instead there is manoeuvring with
a re-emerging “ neoconservative ” elements like Victoria Nuland to break up Ukraine . If there is an armed intervention from either
side that beautiful city of Kiev
will also be reduced to rubble by NATO Air Forces. Thereafter it will not be USA and its allies who will come to rebuild Ukraine .
In a Sovereign State there is always an opposition to the government in power. Such oppositions unfortunately do not follow
democratic principles of constructive criticism. They oppose the government to fulfil
political ambitions to depose a government in place even if it were strictly to
follow the political manifesto on which
they were elected.
Such
political oppositions to a ruling party
awaits for an opportunity to create a
state of chaos making it impossible for the government to maintain law and
order. In such a situation more often
there are the foreign interventions without respecting the Sovereignty of a
country to support those who oppose the government to encourage the “rebels” to fight against the
government and use undemocratic methods to make the government to step down.
This is
what happened in Egypt , Tunisia , Libya ,
and Yugoslavia . It is exactly what is happening in Ukraine and Venezuela . The American and European intervention is
uncalled for in Ukraine .
In Venezuela ,
American agents are behind the scene.
Such interventionists do not act in the interest of the people, but to
fulfil their own political interests as it is in Ukraine
where American and European support for those who manifest are to ward off Russia
and breakup Ukraine .
In Venezuela it is to stop a Socialist Government
become popular within the area of American influence as it happened in Chile . It is
still the Monroe
doctrine of maintaining American Influence over Latin American countries. John Kerry saying that the Monroe Doctrine is dead is
only a ruse to include European countries in a combined effort for balkanisation and regime change in Latin
American Countries. America still
maintains a protectionist foreign
policy.
If a country
is left
uninterfered by USA
and its allies, sending their Ambassadors-at-Large to inquire into violation of
human rights thereby helping those who are
opposed to the government in place, the country
will be able to settle its problems with its people in dialogue in its own way. It may perhappen in Syria and Thailand , if the government and the
people are allowed to settle problems by themselves.
It is
inconceivable why USA , and Britain are all out to destabilise Sri Lanka just five years after it ended a ruthless terrorism., accusing the Government
of discrimination against the Tamil
population, and calling for an International Investigation into the last phase
of Sri Lanka Military operations to eliminate terrorism.
There is
John Kerry the Secretary of State, with the American Ambassador Michelle Sison, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Nisha
Biswal , American Ambassador –at-Large
Stephen Rapp, 16 US Senators, David Cameron UK PM, and Hugo Swire Minister of
State at the Foreign Office they are all there in strength to defend the Tamil
people against the government.
But
strangely none of them were heard of
throughout the 30 years of terrorism in Sri Lanka when its people the young and
old men ,women and children were
murdered, massacred, assassinated or blasted in claymore bombs or by suicide bombers. Then there were none to
sympathise with the Tamils, the Sinhala or the Muslims that were dying in scores every month or so. There was none
to stop human rights violation by the terrorists.
But after
Sri Lanka without the help of USA, and the West eliminated that cancer of
terrorism eating into it, the USA , UK and the rest of the Western countries
come in numbers calling for International Investigation of violation of human
rights, and war crimes during the last phase of the elimination of terrorism as
if there had been no terrorism before that.
These
interventions have become so nauseatingly offensive as they are digging up old graves. If they now find an unclaimed dead body some
where in Sri Lanka ,
or a person missing or a journalist not
heard of, or find skeletons, the opposition to Government
accuses the government and its Armed Forces as responsible. It is as if the
Government of Sri Lanka is doing nothing other than killing and hiding dead
bodies, and use white vans to kidnap people.
However, USA is not without intelligent and
wise people who could sympathise and understand the predicament of developing
countries. One such is:
Senator James Inhofe who tabled a resolution in the US Senate on behalf of 11 other Senators “ Calling on the United States Government and the international community to assist the Government of Sri Lanka, with due regard to its sovereignty, stability, and security, in establishing domestic mechanisms to deal with any grievances arising from actions committed by both sides during and after the civil war in Sri Lanka ”
Senator James Inhofe who tabled a resolution in the US Senate on behalf of 11 other Senators “ Calling on the United States Government and the international community to assist the Government of Sri Lanka, with due regard to its sovereignty, stability, and security, in establishing domestic mechanisms to deal with any grievances arising from actions committed by both sides during and after the civil war in Sri Lanka ”
Sri Lanka
is only asking for a space of time to
recover from what it suffered for nearly three decades, heal its wounds and
find ways and means to unite the separated communities, without interference from outside to support the
disgruntled Tamil politicians and their followers to strengthen their opposition to the
Government.
If not the USA and its allies will only stop the progressive development of Sri Lanka and delay
the reconciliation of the divided communities.
Sri Lanka
is progressing at its own pace reconciling the Communities and developing the
country by a government led by a popular President dedicated to the cause of the people.
It is time USA gives up its aggressivity and change its
foreign policy to fall in line with China
and Russia ,
and form into a union with them to help developing nations. USA should stop its present policy
of dividing developing countries and changing of regimes .
Further
more we see in the report which is to be
presented by Navi Pillai the UN Commissioner at the UNHRC in Geneva ,
that she refers to the report issued by the UN Panel of experts appointed by
the Secretary General of UN to inform
him of what happened in Sri Lanka
during the elimination of terrorism.
That report
prepared by the UNSG’s Panel of Experts on Accountability without moving from
the UN Secretariat was based completely on hearsay evidence. It was not an official document but a report
prepared for the Secretary General’s personal information. Navi Pillai as the UNHR Commissioner has no
right to present it or present extracts
from it, as it is not an official
document.
This report
–the Darusman report states that the witnesses who gave evidence before the Panel
should be made known only 20 years after its presentation. How could any one
depend on a report stipulating such unacceptable conditions ?
Any
evidence given by a witness should be presented to the party accused to cross examine the
witnesses. That is the law. Any evidence
without such legal access to witnesses cannot be accepted as correct. Therefore the Darusman Report to which Navi
Pillai refers is not a legal document, and the facts stated therein cannot be accepted as correct.
President
Barrak Obama, should at least now change his State Department’s aggressive foreign policy. The Government of United
Kingdom is always prepared to help USA in any of
its ill conceived activity. It is well known that Tony Blair the Prime Minister
of UK prepared false
documents to allow President Bush to
declare war against Iraq .
We
therefore appeal to America and its allies to stop continuing to bully Sri
Lanka, and grow up to be a reasonable democratic Government, and engage in a
friendly dialogue with the President and the Government of Sri Lanka to settle
problems on which there are disagreement.
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