Hypocrisy of Stephen Harper fighting for Human Rights for Tamils in Sri Lanka is not a lily white champion against violation of human rights ?

Stephen Harper’s first duty is to  remove the  Indian Act of 1876 to give  the Canadian First Nations freedom to move away from their confinement to Reserves, build them houses, schools, hospitals and give them the  right to be educated in Universities and find respectable employment, and provide decent living conditions  and treat them as “Canadians”.   

They deserve it because they were the people who had lived in Canada for 12 000 years.  But Stephen Harper  is instead obeying the demands of the  250 000 Sri Lanka Tamils in Canada who had been there for only about  50 years.

Most of what is written in this article  is what other Canadians say about Stephen Harper-the Prime Minister of Canada who adulates the Sri Lanka Tamils, and asks all Prime Ministers of  the Commonwealth countries not to attend the CHOGM in Sri Lanka, in obedience to the demands of 250 000 Sri Lanka Tamils who had come to Canada only after 1983. They say it is a “ diplomatic slap to Sri Lanka on its face.”

Rex Murphy wrote to  National Post  an article,  “ Rex Murphy:Vilifying Stephen Harper” in which he says:

“There’s something about Stephen. His opponents have many names for him — the majority of which are, alas, neither flattering nor meant to be.

He is a taciturn schemer, a theocrat mole, loose at the top of the Canadian political system, determined to bend Canada to his grim and twisted design, to curb the liberties of Canadians, to push us and our country back into some fevered neocon darkness. Politically, he is Dick Cheney’s illegitimate son. George W. Bush’s half-brother. He’s a lackey of the rich, and enemy of all that is good and Canadian. He’s in the pocket of big oil. He hates baby seals.
My, how the spine chills when some people talk and write about Harper.”

Rex Murphy adds:

“ Then there are the many “faces” his enemies attribute to him, among them Conspiracy Harper, Vendetta Harper, Christianist-Harper — hope of the hard line, Doomsday-waiting Evangelicals, Secret-Agenda Harper, Tool of Israel Harper, Anti-Democracy Harper, with perhaps a little space for Secret Alberta-Separatist Harper. The caricatures belong more to the old style of detective novel when the villains, projections of untethered fantasy, were eerie amalgams of malice, supernal powers, outlandish ambitions and utterly unbelievable. Harper as Fu Manchu, as it were.
Again he says : “ Hating, mistrusting or dismissing Harper is not a transient phenomenon. A poll as recent as this week, seven years after Mr. Harper took office (during which he has not, contra naturum, transformed Canada into a gulag or prison house for the poor, artists, liberals, greens or whomever he sees as his opponents) reveals a majority of Canadians think he still has that famous but, by definition, unseen hidden agenda. Even though he is Prime Minister and has a majority, many still believe he keeps that damn agenda up his sleeve.”
 Query: What’s the point of a hidden agenda that stays hidden? Will it still be hidden when he leaves office? If so, what was or is its point?

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/08/rex-murphy-vilifying-stephen-harper/

Less than 500 years ago in Canada there were only the aborigines the original inhabitants.  Today they call themselves the First Nations.  There are many groups of them. They spoke 53 different languages.  Scientists affirm that they had lived their for more than 12,000 years.  Today their populations is about 3.8% of a total of 31million Canadians of which 16.2 % are visible minorities and 80%whites.

According to Wikipedia today  there are 704,851 First Nations (the original aborigines). 57%of them live in Reserves others in larger cities.

These people of First Nations live in most pitiable conditions in their racial confinement in  Reserves even without clean drinking water.  The government does not help developing the reservations into which they have been confined.

According  to a report  by Martin Lukacs in Guardian.co.uk, “Canadians have often turned a blind eye, having been taught to see the rights of aboriginal peoples as a threat to their interests. Dare to restore sovereignty to the original inhabitants, the story goes, and Canadians will be hustled out of their jobs and off the land. Or more absurdly, onto the first ships back to Europe.

This reminds of the British Colonial rulers pushing the Sinhala majority into the back ground and pandering to the minorities giving them important places in their Administration.

Lukacs further says in his report, that Billions have indeed been spent – not on fixing housing, building schools or ending the country's two-tiered child and services, but on a legal war against aboriginal communities. Every year, the government pours more than $100m into court battles  to curtail aboriginal rights – and that figure alone went to defeating a single lawsuit launched by two Alberta First Nations trying to recover oil royalties essentially stolen by bureaucrats.

Cindy Blackstock is a young activist fighting for Aboriginal rights in Canada ‘‘ she has spent more than five years trying to hold Ottawa accountable for a funding gap on the welfare of aboriginal children in Reserves.

Instead of dealing with that funding gap, Ottawa has spent nearly as long searching for dirt on Blackstock. In total, it has spent more than $3 million trying to derail her bid to have the government’s funding policy ruled as discrimination against native children.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/canada-first-nations-new-alliance

On the contrary  the Sri Lanka Tamils that migrated to Canada after 1983 their numbers today risen to  250,000 have had more opportunities allowed to them than the aborigines First Nations of Canada, who are still living in  the Reserves which they cannot leave under the racist  Indian Act of 1876.

The vast majority of Tamils immigrated to Canada in the last 20 years. Canada is now home to the largest Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka. Within this short period of time, Tamils have established a mounting presence in multiple aspects of Canadian life: business, academic, political and social. The Tamil business community has grown in leaps and bounds, with over 2,000 Tamil-owned businesses in the GTA.

But for the First Nations, the original people of Canada opportunities are not provided by the government purposely for  fear of them one day challenging the government of the Whites. In an article entitled Canada’s First Nations: A Legacy of Institutional Racism Claire Hutchings opens her article stating:

“Sadly, our history with respect to the treatment of Aboriginal people is not something in which we can take pride. Attitudes of racial and cultural superiority led to a suppression of Aboriginal culture and values.
“As a country, we are burdened by past actions that resulted in weakening the identity of Aboriginal peoples, suppressing their languages and cultures, and outlawing spiritual practices. We must recognize the impact of these actions on the once self-sustaining nations that were disaggregated, disrupted, limited or even destroyed by the dispossession of traditional territory, by the relocation of Aboriginal people, and by some provisions of the Indian Act. We must acknowledge that the result of these actions was the erosion of the political, economic and social systems of Aboriginal people and nations.”

http://www.tolerance.cz/courses/papers/hutchin.htm

It is always a man who has an unsavoury past much to hide who try to show himself Angel white and pretend to defend people against  discriminations.  Stephen Harper falls into this category.
Nick Fillmore in his article “Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies: “ states :

2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
The regimes viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing, those being targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.

Jack Etkin, The Bridge, B.C., March 2011: “Mr. Harper is very likely a war criminal. In Afghanistan, he has forced Canadian troops to give innocent civilians to the Afghan police to be tortured. That is a war crime, but it is never mentioned by the corporate media.”
Finally Nick Fillmore, previously an investigative journalist and producer with the CBC, who is a freelance journalist and social activist based in Toronto. Asks:

So how does Harper tally up?

I’ve ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 indicating how strongly Harper’s fascist tendencies are), my own impressions of Stephen Harper’s actions and policies. Please share your opinions and score in the comments section.
To keep things simple, just cut and paste the chart with my scores into the comments section and add your own scores.

1.     Nationalism: (Nick: 5)

2.     Human Rights: (Nick: 4)

3.     Enemies as scapegoats: (Nick 3)

4.     Supremacy of the Military: (Nick: 5)

5.     Rampant Sexism: (Nick 3)

6.     Controlled Mass Media: (Nick 3)

7.     Obsession with National Security: (Nick 4)

8.     Religion and Ruling Elite tied together: (Nick 0)

9.     Power of Corporations protected: (Nick 6)

10.  Power of Labour supressed/eliminated: (Nick 5)

11.  Disdain/suppression of Intellectuals: (Nick 4)

12.  Obsession with crime/punishment: (Nick 6)

13.  Rampant cronyism/corruption: (Nick 3)

14.  Fraudulent Elections: (Nick 4)

Nick’s total: 55
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/4486/



Where are all the human rights activists very active in Geneva to bring resolutions against Sri Lanka, which has no ethnic problem, which had been created by the pro-terrorist Sri Lanka Tamil Diaspora, the racist  NTA and the anti government NGOs .  In Canada there is a very serious problem of violation of  the human rights  and the denial of decent living conditions to its aborigines the Original people of the country.

Amnesti International, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group headed by a Canadian are apparently not as active as they are against Sri Lanka to put right the wrongs that are being committed by Stephen Harper’s Government against the Canadian First Nations.

However, the 2012 Annual report of the Amnesti International reports, “In October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing into a complaint brought by the Hul-qumi’num Treaty Group, alleging violations of Indigenous land rights on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia. A ruling was expected in 2012.

There was little progress in implementing the findings of the Ipperwash Inquiry, set up to examine the fatal police shooting in 1995 of an unarmed Indigenous man during a protest in Ontario. Incidents at the Tyendinaga Mohawk community in Ontario in 2008, in which provincial police pointed high-powered rifles at unarmed protesters and bystanders, and the failure to conduct an impartial review of these incidents, underscored the urgent need for implementation of the Ipperwash findings.

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission, mandated to document and raise awareness of the abuses against First Nations, Métis and Inuit children, and broader harms caused by Canada’s historic residential school system, held sessions throughout the year.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/canada/report-2012

At the UN Human Rights Council in May while much publicity was being given to US Resolutionn against Sri Lanka.  The more serious case of Stephen Harper’s Canadaian Governments  violation of human rights of the Canadian Firt Nations went un notices. In a report under, “ Canada comes under fire at UN Human Rights Couincil Review it was stated ,

“…..We need to start addressing these things. We are guilty of human rights violations, we have a whole genocide of First Nations and we need to stop the arrogance and be open and critical to ourselves as to why this is,” said Michelle Robinson, a political analyst.

“This is not democratic this is actually a dictatorship so we do not have the right to point fingers at other people’s human rights violations, said Robinson.”

The Report further state:

“Recently, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was reportedly blocked from entering Canada by its Foreign Minister John Baird.

This comes, as it is reported that three to four million Canadians live in poverty, between 150,000-300,000 people are visibly homeless as well as almost four million residents experience hunger. ”

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/03/301653/uns-human-rights-council-raps-canada/

Michaëlle Jean, a former governor general, is calling for aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians to "pull together" to put an end to living conditions in some First Nations communities that she says are comparable to what she witnessed in Haiti.

In an interview with CBC Radio Montreal's Daybreak, Jean spoke about the role she played as governor general, the Idle No More movement and the deplorable living standards in many of Canada's aboriginal communities.

December, Spence said she was  “willing to die for my people and the First Nations people”

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence, who has been on a hunger strike since Dec. 11, says she is willing to die for her people and the First Nations people. (CBC)

Jean said she finds it troubling that so many aboriginal people take their lives because of a sense of powerlessness.
She told CBC's Daybreak that conditions in aboriginal communities, such as a lack of fresh drinking water, are "unacceptable."
"We have a Third World in Canada, and it's with our aboriginal peoples," Jean said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2013/01/15/montreal-michaelle-jean-theresa-spence-hunger-strike.html



Despite all this “criminal acts” of the Stephen Harper’s Government  against the Canadian First Nations, John Baird the Foreign Minister of Canada, had made a strong accusation against Sri Lanka’s failure to be accountable.  He had said:
  

"It's not just Canada: the Commonwealth Journalists' Association; the Commonwealth Human rights Initiative; the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association; the Commonwealth Legal Education Association; the Commonwealth Magistrates' and Judges' Association; Human Rights Watch, the United Nations Human Rights Council – all of these people have come out and unanimously have said that not only has Sri Lanka not made progress, but in many instances, is getting worse."

Baird appears to think all those Agencies he had mentioned  are sacrosanct and are working on true eye witness evidence of Sri Lanka’s human rights violations.  But Mr. Baird, all these agencies are funded by the anti Sri Lanka pro-terrorist Tamil diaspora and there is no “grain” of truth in any one of their accusations. Only way to get at the truth is by visiting Sri Lanka and see the transformation the country has gone through after elimination of terrorism.

If you were to go to Sri Lanka  John Baird  you will see for  yourself how the Communities in Sri Lanka live  in  harmony with each other and how every area in Sri Lanka whether with a greater population of Tamils or with a greater  population of Sinhala and Muslims are being reconstructed and developed with out any discrimination against any ethnic group. 

You will surely be ashamed John Baird, seeing  how Sri Lanka has dealt with the ethnic problem,.  Where as you, who speak so much against Sri Lanka’s violation of human rights, do not seem to care that you have not been able to take the Canadian First Nations out of their misery living in intolerable inhuman conditions in  the reservation allocated to them under India Act of 1876, forced to live  even without fresh water to drink. 

John Baird if you were to go you will have lot to learn from Sri Lanka, to solve your own human rights problem with regard to the Canadian First Nations.

Further more you will see for yourself, that the information with  which your informants the Canadian Tamil Diaspora have been feeding you  have no iota of truth, and that they have merely taken you up the garden path, and there is absolutely  nothing for Sri Lanka to face censure by Canada or any other Nation in the World.

Baird has also had said “  the impeachment and sacking three months ago of the country’s chief justice and her replacement with a successor who is close to President Mahinda Rajapakse." Both of those actions are appalling and they show that not only have we not seen an improvement, we've seen a deterioration in recent months and that is causing Canada great concern."

John Baird in your latter statement you are really interfering in an internal matter of the country, without using your intelligence to understand the situation, but listening to your  worthless informants who know next to nothing about Sri Lanka.  The CJ is an Government Officer like any other, and if she commits any blameworthy act she has to be punished and in the case of a CJ there are special procedures to be followed  according to the Constitution of Sri Lanka.  Therefore with regard to the impeachment of the CJ, there  is nothing for any one to point their finger, as the impeachment had been carried out properly in terms of the Constitution of Sri Lanka. 

The President of Sri Lanka  has the right to appoint any one as the CJ provided he is qualified for the Office.  The fact that he is close to the President Rajapaksse is a most irrelevant point to raise,  as being a friend of the President cannot disqualify a person otherwise qualified for the Office.  The New CJ being Close to the President does not mean that the CJ is going to take directions from the President in his functions as the CJ.

We expect you and Stephen Harper to be more intelligent to take decision on your own without seeking the advise of the worthless  Canadian Tamil diaspora even if it is to ensure that their vote bank will help you to  be in Government at the next election and thereafter.

John Kerry USA Secretary of State should take a lesson from ever present fear of terrorism in USA and leave Sri Lanka alone to traverse its own fortunes.

John Kerry should visit Sri Lanka before making damaging statements about the country in ignorant

When will America learn that their foreign policies are out dated, self centred , and  not progressive? Democrats have failed to change the Republican policies still embedded in their administrative System.  Be it Hillary Clinton or John Kerry , the changes to American Foreign policies are not forth coming.

What has Sri Lanka done to America ?  Sri Lanka is not promoting terrorism in America. Sri Lanka is only asking to be left alone to develop the country  which had been devastated by a terrorist war for three decades,  and  reconcile the Communities psychologically wounded under terrorism.

Neither President Barack Obama nor  his State Secretary Hillary Clinton  new about what happened , or what is happening in Sri Lanka.  They get information from the Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia Robert O’Blake, who comes from the Bush Administration, and who is a close friend of the Sri Lanka Terrorist leaders, which is no secret to any one in Sri Lanka. In the US State Department there is a “government within the government” Presidents may come and Presidents may go but the “government within” goes on.

The first order The President Barack Obama signed when he became the President was to close the American Guantanamo Torture Camp.  But who cared to carry out his order.  The Guantanamo Camp is still their giving more headaches to the President now with the inmates on hunger strike. But Human Rights, Human Rights….says the US State Department.

Robert O’Blake’s contacts are the pro-terrorist elements in the Tamil diaspora and the anti government local NGOs, and the Tamil National Alliance which was a part and parcel of the Sri Lanka terrorists when Robert O’Blake was the American Ambassador  in Sri Lanka.  Therefore the Democrats now in power are acting on information fed to them from those who come from the Bush Administration with a Republican background.  How else  could John Kerry have got the information on which he made a most reproachable statement, not in keeping with the dignity of a  State Secretary of a supposed to be the Leading Nation of the world !

John Kerry  had said , “The government (of Sri Lanka) is dominated by the President’s family; two of the President’s brothers hold key executive branch posts as Defence Secretary and Minister of Economic Development, while a third brother is the Speaker of Parliament. A large number of other relatives, including the President’s son, also serve in important political or diplomatic positions,”

It is a despicable statement most unworthy of a Secretary of State who was once a Presidential Candidate. 

If this is the stuff with which the President Barrack Obama’s State Department is made of  there is no wonder America is sliding into an inevitable depth of political calamity from one to another.  In making that “stupid” statement he  forgot that in America itself there were relatives of American Presidents in high posts.  President John Kennedy for instance appointed his brother Robert Kennedy as the  Attorney General.  

 It is very fortunate if a President can have  family members, who could hold important positions in the government.  Because they are after all  the most trust worthy, and those who could be counted upon to do a job of work according to the Presidents political manifesto.

In case of the family members of the President Rajapakse,  his brothers, son  and nieces who are with him in the Government were elected Members of the Parliament except the Secretary of Defence who was the most qualified to hold the post and responsible for the elimination of terrorism through able coordination of the Armed Forces and getting essential arms and armaments in time to continue a non-stop military operations against the terrorists until they were finally and completely eliminated.

John Kerry when he took over the State Department from Hillary Clinton many expected a change , but only Hillary Clinton has gone but people like Robert O’Blake remain. Therefore
there want be any change in the American State Department in its relation with regard to Sri Lanka, even with John Kerry as the State Secretary.

But at least now, despite the mistakes the President Barack Obama’s government had been doing , it is time his administration turns towards itself to set its own records correct with regard to human rights. It had been for many years using every trick possible to “police” the world with aggressivity, threat and embargos.  The price it pays now for all that is enormous.  The child poverty is at its worst in South Dakota.  The US census bureau has reported that in 2012, more than 16 percent of the American population live in poverty .

“There were about 643,000 sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons nation wide in January 2009. Almost two-thirds stayed in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program and the other third were living on the street, in an abandoned building, or another place not meant for human habitation. About 1.56 million people, or about 0.5% of the U.S. population, used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009. ” (Wikipedia). 

But yet Human Rights….Human Rights says the US State Department.

No body seems to be safe in America, despite its CIA, FBI and other Agencies like the Human Rights Watch, Lawyers for Justice etc.  They are all out accusing  a small country like Sri Lanka for violation of human rights in eliminating a group of terrorists that made its people suffer for 30 long years, when in America even a five year old child takes to crime killing his kid sister with a gun he was given as a birthday present by his adorable parents. 

Elsewhere in the US, President Obama has just spoken after the US senate blocked a bill to expand background checks on gun owners, despite support from 90 per cent of Americans. Flanked by victims of gun violence, a clearly angry Mr Obama said the vote represented a shameful day for Washington.

In another report John Kerry says, “..On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I am eager to support the Sri Lankan people in this journey as you work to make progress on reconciliation and accountability four years after the end of the conflict which divided your country. The United States stands ready to partner with Sri Lanka and all Sri Lankans as you deal with these important issues,".

But with the same breath , “U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed a 20 per cent cut in the American aid to Colombo, a move reflecting the unease in their ties over issues related to human rights, reconstruction and political integration in Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war.”  . 

She thinks she is the American Viceroy in Sri Lanka

The State Department of America depends on the American Embassy in Sri Lanka to  provide confidential information with regard to the activities of the Government of Sri Lanka.  But the informants  engaged by the  Ambassador Michelle Sison  cannot be relied upon as they are mainly the political opponents to the Government of Mahinda Rajapakse and pro-terrorists local NGO’s .  
President Barrack Obama has similar experience with those who oppose his Democratic Regime. All progressive bills the President Obama has presented are vehemently opposed by the Republican opposition.

It is the same with the opposition to the President  Mahinda Rajapkse’s government. The UNP, JVP or the TNA will not express appreciation of the considerable  work done so far by the Government of Sri Lanka for the development of the country and the reconciliation of the Communities. 

Therefore, if the American State Department goes on these reports prepared by the American Ambassador Michelle Sison based on the information  she had got from the most undemocratic selfish opposition to the Government of Sri Lanka, America will naturally be acting against a popular government with a dedicated President at its helm in Sri Lanka.

But yet the ill informed  Michelle Sison  playing second fiddle to Robert O’Blake , dare say that ‘She has pointed out that the government has had ample time and space to address a number of concerns, especially to address allegations of violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws.’

American State Department is therefore unable to get objective information with regard to the Government of Sri Lanka and its  ground realities.  John Kerry should perhaps contact American Citizens who visit the country and help the people to ameliorate their condition, who not being interest in politics will give the State Department more important information than those he gets through the American Ambassador Michelle Sison.

One such American Citizen I think of is Ms. Amy Poirier from Staten Island , who in fact wrote both to John Kerry and the President Barack Obama, on real conditions existing in Sri Lanka gathered from ordinary people she mixes with  in humanitarian activities  she has undertaken  in Sri Lanka, and expressing her surprise at the passing of a resolution against Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Boston Marathon Bombing

After seeing the Boston Marathon Bomb blast Ms.Amy Poirier wrote , “…What strikes me while watching the news during attacks now is that the people have no real idea how there lives have just changed.  There is a family who the father just completed the Boston Marathon, his 8 year old son ran up to him to hug him and on his return to his mother was killed, his younger sister and his mother had their legs torn off.  I simply cannot imagine the reality of these people lives now.  Then to take the thought even further this family is a true example of what others as in Sri Lanka had lived with for over 30 years.  

Sri Lanka Fort Railway Station Bombing by terrorists

Can John Kerry think the way Mme Amy Poirier thought after the Boston terrorist attack -  that terrorism is the same  where ever it happens ?

This accounts for  the double standard of American State Department, despite its continued  harassment of countries, aiding rebels  for regime change. Syria problem could have been settled by America if it wanted to by contacting the rebel groups to advice them that the best  means to solve the problem is to have a dialogue with the government with the intermediary of America, Russia and China, instead of arming rebels to attack the Syrian Government Forces. 

President Barack Obama now, like the  former President Bush in respect of Iraq,  asserts that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad uses chemical weapons against his own people.  It may be a lie as it was with Iraq, as there are so many rebel groups sponsored by the International Community, which makes one pose the question,  who actually uses chemicals against the people ? It cannot certainly be the Government of Assad, as Syria had no capabilities of producing weapons of mass destruction.

It is time that Sri Lanka should stop to take stock of itself, Sri Lanka had been doing things to please the US and the West far too long. Nevertheless, the International Community will never be  satisfied and will continue to call for the “pound of flesh.”

It is therefore essential to do what is good for Sri Lanka (not what is good for the West), as now is the time for it,  and this time will never come again. What would happen to Sri Lanka  after Mahinda Rajpakse is any body’s guess.  We cannot expect UNP, and  least of all JVP, to do any thing better. They will only reverse what ever progress Sri Lanka  has made since 2005.

The American Ambassador Michell Sison is already acting as the Viceroy of Sri Lanka, and America has taken over the role of a police state, keeping tag on Sri Lanka, without contributing any thing to its development and progress.  Sri Lanka has been let down by the former colonialists , European Community and  its neighbour India.

Therefore, Sri Lanka should take its own protective measures to develop the country and reconcile the Communities. As long as TNA is allowed to keep their Parliamentary Membership  and allowed to exist as a political party despite high treason they are committing  against the  Country day in and the day out, reconciliation of the Sinhala Community and the Tamil Community becomes more and more difficult.

Therefore the Government should walk out of its “cocoon” and take decisive action what ever the consequences would be.  Sri Lanka has defeated a most ruthless terrorist group without any body’s help.  It could therefore be able to face any consequences that would follow after taking essential  decisions in the interest of the country despite the USA and the West.

First and foremost, the 13 Amendment should be removed as it was accepted to facilitate  the Indian Peace Keeping Force to move about the terrorist controlled areas in the North and the East. The IPKF left long ago and terrorism has since been eliminated therefore there is no reason to maintain the 13Amendment. 

Secondly, legal action should be taken against the TNA which was a party  “ floated” by the terrorists to be their spokes men in the Sri Lanka Parliament.  The TNA should have been disbanded in May 2009.  It was a mistake to have kept them to represent the Tamils.  Even today TNA remains the voice of the terrorists and the pro-terrorist Tamil diaspora. The Government should demand a court order to disband TNA.

Thirdly, we should inform the UN and the UN Human Rights Council not to interfere with the internal affairs of the Country and that Sri Lanka would  implement only those  recommendations of the LLRC which Sri Lanka considers is important to build good Communal relations and allow the country as a whole to benefit from those recommendations without being selective.

Sri Lanka should strengthen the Military Camps in the North and the East and settle down the Sinhala IDPs, without further delay.

Fourthly, Thesavalamai should be withdrawn as a law of Sri Lanka, Shariah law should be forbidden.  The citizens of Sri Lanka should have one Law and that has to be obeyed by all.  Any body should be allowed to buy land and settle down in North and the East as it is happening in the South.

Fifthly, we should inform the Secretary of US State Department not to make damaging remarks about Sri Lanka. The fact that the Rajapakse brothers are at the helm of the Government Administration is no business of the US State Department.  What matters is whether the people of Sri Lanka accepts the situation  or not. 

John Kerry is the US State Secretary and Sri Lanka is a Sovereign Democratic State, not a Dictatorship or a lawless  country of savages, and above all not a Subject Nation of USA.  Sri Lanka is not bound by the US Country Reports or  US Congress Committee Reports.  Sri Lanka should not be threatened to do what it does not want to do. 

Sri Lanka would like to remain a  poor country but not a subservient country.  If the International Community proposes to march along with its NATO Forces against  Sri Lanka,  the USA and the International Community should take note that Sri Lanka is not alone, it has its friends to defend it, even if India were to once again turn a traitor to Sri Lanka.

The US State Secretary John Kerry instead of going by third party false accounts of Sri Lanka should be  “man” enough to visit Sri Lanka, and  judge the ground situation himself.  He should request the US Ambassador Michelle Sison not to act as the American Viceroy in Sri Lanka appointed to  overseer every activity of the Government of Sri Lanka, and confine herself to her Ambassadorial functions.

Sixthly, Sri Lanka should inform the USA and the International Community which keeps Sri Lanka on the top of their red list of dangerous countries, that Sri Lanka has finished with terrorism and is answerable to no one for their elimination and “collateral “damages if there were any.

Lastly Sri Lanka should ask the white supremacist Stephen Harper to go and “fly a kite” and that we are least concerned whether he attends the CHOGM or not. Even if the CHOGM is not held in Sri Lanka it  would not be the end of the world.

Kath Noble’s cry of victory for America on its resolution against Sri Lanka

Kath  Noble  in her article “  Sri Lanka’s defeat “  to the Island on 27 March, 2013, states ,
“The UN Human Rights Council sessions ended last week with the passage of another resolution on Sri Lanka. It was a victory for the United States, which secured 25 votes in favour compared to 13 against, with eight abstentions and the representative from Gabon being recorded as AWOL.”

Any one  from West would readily claim  that the  passing of the US Resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in Geneva, is a victory to the USA and the West, what ever that victory means to them, and a defeat to Sri Lanka the hide they take all the trouble to beat.  But they cry victory too soon without analysing the out come to see whether it was really a victory. All that the  USA and its allies wanted was a victory whatever was the substance of the resolution. But, looking closely at how the voting had gone, the West’s  cry of victory  rings hollow.

Let us see who voted in favour of the US Resolution :      
Austria,   Czech Republic, Estonia,  Germany, Ireland,Italy,Montenegro  Poland, Romania, Spain. Moldova, and Switzerland (12 countries  of the European block ) and USA.(1)  Benin, Ivory Cost, Sierra Leone ( 3 African Countries,) Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala , Peru, ( 6 South American Countries), India, Libya, Korea (3 countries that follow USA  for special reasons.) (25 Countries)
Who voted Against the US Resolution:  Indonesia, Maldives,  Philippines,  Thailand,Pakistan( 6 Asian Countries)  Uganda, Congo, Mauritania (3 African Countries) Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela(1  Caribbian and 2 South American) Qatar, Kuwait,  UAE, ( 3 Middle Eastern Countries) (13 Countries)

Who abstained: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya,(5 African countries) Japan, Malaysia, Kazakhstan (3 Asian and Central Asian Country) (8 Countries)

Absented: Gabon.

Abstaining  and not being preset to  vote were an acknowledgement of  refusal to follow the US sponsored resolution, and a show of sympathy with Sri Lanka. Therefore the US resolution was refused by these nine Countries,  adding these to the 13 countries which  voted against the Resolution means there were 22 votes against the American resolution which was cosponsored by the Western countries.

Most of the South American countries are under the influence of USA  therefore  it is no surprise they voted  with America.  Libya has  an American puppet government. Thus USA had 20 votes of their own group of Countries.  Other than those countries America found only 5  countries (3 African countries plus Korea and India) supporting  its resolution.  Therefore, it was  not a great victory for America, which has lost its popularity  outside its own circle of countries. The US resolution in that equation  did not have  the support of  countries outside American influence, and therefore it is a victory for Sri Lanka as  those countries other than those “American Group” of countries, did not support the US call for :
(1)  advice and technical assistance of the UNHCHR to promote reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka
(2).. the establishment of a truth-seeking mechanism.,
(3). to conduct an independent and credible investigation into allegations of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, as applicable.
(4).. to cooperate with special procedures mandate holders and to respond formally to their outstanding requests, and  extend invitations  to them and provide them access;
(5).. Encourages the Office of the High Commissioner and relevant special procedures mandate holders to provide, in consultation with and with the concurrence of the Government of Sri Lanka, advice and technical assistance on implementing the above-mentioned steps;
(6)… Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, with input from relevant special procedures mandate holders, as appropriate, to present an oral updateto the Human Rights Council at its twenty-fourth session, and a comprehensive report  followed by a discussion at the twenty-fifth session, on the implementation of the present resolution

USA  had proof of its unpopularity and the voting was not an encouragement  for USA to pursue its  anti Sri Lanka campaign, which is against all norms of democracy and done without any political wisdom, only for reasons of a political strategy which is evident from Americas repeated effort of coming year after year ,  harassing  Sri Lanka on the self same issues.

Therefore Kath Nobel’s blowing a horn of victory for US Resolution is assuming victory too soon.  In reality the US resolution has failed to interest the delegates at the 22 session of UNHRCouncil.
Sri Lanka has nothing to learn from the one sided resolution which is only trying to impede the progress of Sri Lanka in the right direction.  The delegates of the  Countries of the Middle  East voted against the US resolution not as Muslims, but as delegates representing their countries.  Therefore Kath Noble dragging in Bodu Bala Sena to warn Sri Lanka of a possible disaffection of the “Muslim” countries in the Middle East in their votes in future US resolutions against  Sri Lanka seems an attempt to  create a rift between those countries and Sri Lanka.

Bodu Bala Sena is not against the Muslim Countries, it is against a new “fundamentalist”  trend amoung the Muslims in Sri Lanka which had not been evident in the past, which some Buddhists fear  would create a Communal dissension between the Sinhala and the Muslim who had been living  without any  serious disaccord, and it is only their wish to nip a growing  danger to communal unity in the bud.  In fact the Embassy of USA in Sri Lanka  has information of 4 Islamic fundamentalist Groups working in Sri Lanka.

It is not only in Sri Lanka  that this new “fundamentalist” trend has surfaced, but the European countries too are at the moment in the throes of such an unexpected change of attitude of the Muslim communities that had been living hitherto in harmony with other communities. 

Kath Noble is perhaps not aware that it had been the Sinhala Buddhists who had suffered most from the Colonial rulers who had swept aside Buddhism and the Buddhist culture. The anti- Buddhist  mentality of the British colonial rulers changed only after  the coming to Sri Lanka of  Henry Steel Olcott , an American Buddhist.  After the independence it was only after 1956 that the Sinhala people had been able to give back  to their religion and their culture  the prestige and its rightful place . 

Therefore, if there is going to be any danger to  Buddhism coming from whatever  quarter the Sinhala Buddhists will certainly rise in protest.   It  happened before with the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka setting up  Catholic Action, which gave rise to the Lanka Jathika Bala Mandalaya.

The terrorism was not only a danger  to the Sinhala Buddhist Culture, but a challenge to Sri Lanka’s unitary Status.  The Buddhists had always accommodated other religions, but it  is only when other religions making use of the pacifist attitude of the Sinhala Buddhists invent new laws and customs  hitherto not practices  at the cost of Buddhism loosing its rightful place in Sri Lanka that they rise to challenge such manipulations.

Kath Noble States, “ The Bodu Bala Sena, which is entirely comprised of people who consider any comment on what goes on in Sri Lanka by non-Sri Lankans as tantamount to an invasion, will pretend that it hasn’t noticed. Since it claims not to notice much more obvious things – such as that Sinhalese not only aren’t in danger of being wiped out but are actually increasing their share of the population in Sri Lanka, even without the help of retrograde bans on contraception – this should come as no surprise.” 

This is a strange statement, the increase or the decrease of the population of the Sinhala people  has nothing to do with the protection of a Culture and way of living practiced hitherto.

 Noticing the voting pattern in Geneva would make it difficult to continue with its ridiculous and totally destructive campaign against Sri Lanka. The countries of the Middle East which voted against the US resolution  will not turn against the Government of Sri Lanka for the action taken by an Organisation which has no connection with the Government.

The Muslims also have their  organisations to protect their religious rights and why not  Buddhists have their organisations to protect the rights of the Buddhists ?  It is needless for outsiders to meddle into such matters to  incite the Muslims  against Buddhists and make it a political issue affecting the Muslim countries of the Middle East, using as a tactic to get the countries in the Middle East to vote for the next US resolution against Sri Lanka next year..

Kath Noble says “Unfortunately, the Government is not much more intelligent.”

The Government’s intelligence is not measured by the Organisations of the people who have the democratic right to do so  in order to keep the people alive to dangers  to their religion and culture.
She goes on to add, “ Muslim countries may not choose to express their concern via the Human Rights Council – or not yet, anyway – but they are certainly worried. They said as much in a very carefully worded letter to the Government just days before the vote in Geneva.

Mahinda Rajapaksa must take note, before Sri Lanka is completely isolated internationally.”

Mahinda Rajapakse need no advice from Kath Noble to learn how to keep  Sri Lanka safe, without being completely Isolated ?  On the contrary, without Kath Noble’s reminder,  Mahinda Rajapaksa has expanded Sri Lanka’s diplomatic  relations with more countries than it had ever before.  Those countries  have no ulterior motives to break up Sri Lanka as a  political strategies.

West may continue its effort to  isolate Sri Lanka from the rest of the World, but it is the West that is loosing the highly respected place it had amoung the developing countries before their undue interference in the affairs of developing countries by arming  rebels for their agenda of regime change.  Sri Lanka has no difficulty in finding new friends, and also keep the old even if the West uses underhand activities through their agents, and lackeys to create dissention  amoung the Communities in  the country.

Kath Noble refers to a passage from  Dayan Jayatillake’s latest book and states,  “ separatism would have been dead and buried if Mahinda Rajapaksa had done what he promised and followed the military defeat of the LTTE with a generous political settlement. But he chose to delay, if not drop the idea altogether.”

Dayan Jayatilleke thinks that , “There had to be a shift of national emphasis and priority, to the international front”.  That would only created more problems if Sri Lanka were to decide its future, political and social development projects not to suit the country, but to satisfy the International front.

Intellectuals are not practical, therefore they could only give theoretical explanations to the present  situation Sri Lanka is faced with internationally. But Mahinda Rajpakse is a practical man with a shrewd political intuition that has stood well so far. 

The International interference would not have ended by a “generous” devolution of political power to the Tamils, because the USA led  International Community’s main concern is not with the Tamil people, but with its own  political agenda. 

Therefore the USA led International Community which could not intervene to save the terrorist from being eliminated would have even if there was a “ generous  political settlement” after the war, continued to interfere with Sri Lanka accusing it for one thing or another,  as  the terrorism in Sri Lanka did not transform into a situation  like it was  with the  rebels in Bengazi.

International Community would have been happy if they could have called the Sri Lanka terrorists, “rebels” and supported them along with the NATO forces, to oust the Mahinda Rajapakse government and murdered him like they murdered Colonel Gaddafi of Libya, for a real regime change.  That may have been their plan and the International community having failed in that, will continue to interfere into Sri Lanka at different UN Forums until they will be able to bring about some how other  a regime change in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem cannot be determined  “in the international theatre”, as they are strangers to  Sri Lanka’s culture and the way of thinking. It is not by separating the Tamil people from the rest of the people in Sri Lanka and giving them separate political power  that the ethnic problem of Sri Lanka could be solved.  It  is  by integrating all communities to one whole Nation that Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem could be solved.  The USA and the Western pandits refuse to understand that in what ever language it is told, as their interest is not in the people but  in Sri Lanka’s strategic geographic situation, to counter the Chinese advance in to the ocean around Sri Lanka.

The Tamil people in Sri Lanka has no interest in what happens in Tamil Nadu, it is only the Tamil National Alliance that makes an issue of it for its own political gain.  TamilNadu may perhaps have other motives such as breaking away from India to set up a separate State of Tamil Nadu and annex the North and East of Sri Lanka.  But the Sri Lanka Tamil people will not agree to such a situation knowing TamilNadu’s rigid caste system.  All the Tamils of Sri Lanka for whom the TamilNadu Tamils now shed tears and self-immolate, would  be low caste in the TamilNadu  caste setup.

Kath Noble goes on to say that, “ During and immediately after the conflict, the world compared its actions to those of the LTTE and took decisions accordingly. It got away with a lot because it was up against a ruthless terrorist organisation that killed both Tamils and Sinhalese, ordinary villagers, human rights activists and political leaders as well as members of the armed forces, and in particular also the leaders of other countries.”

Kath Noble quotes  further from Dayan Jayatillake’s book a part of which is, “ . The lesson was that the Sri Lankan state had to catch up, get with the new calendar and new times, and learn to speak a new language. ‘Bush-speak’ had no acceptance outside the USA even during his administration and now it is rejected within the USA itself and has no resonance anywhere in the world. Sri Lanka’s dominant discourse had to change or it would lose the global struggle by simple default. “

Kath Noble states, “Looking at what has happened since then, it would appear that the experience had the opposite effect on Mahinda Rajapaksa. The Government has moved more recklessly than ever in exactly the same direction. If Muslim countries were to abandon Sri Lanka, the descent into hell would surely be even further accelerated.”  And advises, “That too is a defeat for Sri Lanka, which should now be focusing all of its attention on rebuilding the country, both physically and psychologically.”

Lot of persons have  come forward to say how Mahinda Rajapakse should govern his country.  But Mahinda Rajapakse is a good listener and knows what to accept and what to reject.

USA State Department may take the advice of Dayan Jayatilleke quoted by Kath Noble and “  get with the new calendar and new times, and learn to speak a new language. ‘Bush-speak’ had no acceptance outside the USA even during his administration and now it is rejected within the USA itself and has no resonance anywhere in the world. “  

USA is preparing to send spacemen to Mars, but still remains with the age old Cowboy mentality.