Predators

predators කිවුවම බය වුනාද??? බය වෙන්න එපා. මේ කියන්නේ අලුත්ම predators චිත්‍රපටය ගැන. පූර්ව විකාශන දර්ශනය බලන්නකෝ.

A response to the sound of 'distant drums' from Ban Ki-moon...

The Government has correctly responded, prudently opposed, and protested the appointment of a Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka by United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. The Foreign Ministry in a statement issued last week described the UN move as 'unwarranted and unnecessary interference with a sovereign nation'.

Sri Lanka has been pressurized much by the United Nations from the time of Ban Ki-moon's predecessors like Kofi Annan. The UN continued to pressurize successive Colombo Governments during efforts to crush terrorism. It must be noted that the UN exerted less pressure on the LTTE at that time and the Governments were forced towards the negotiating table to talk peace with the perpetrators of terror. Successive governments held such talks but the LTTE used such opportunities to build up militarily to launch fresh offensives. Certainly, the UN cannot be blind to such facts of the past.

A protest against the appointment of UN advisory panel on Sri Lanka, at the UN office in Colombo. AFP

The LTTE was an internationally linked terror organization which took many countries for a ride not sparing the world body, United Nations. Velupillai Prabakaran and his English speaking cohorts like late Anton Balasingham even took Olara Otunu, the UN Representative who arrived in Colombo to urge the LTTE to halt recruitment of child combatants, for a ride. Two days from Otunu's departure, there were reports in the international media about continued child combatants by the LTTE. We did not hear from Otunu after such international media reports and the LTTE continued its process of recruiting child combatants.

The UN Charter does not permit to live on short memories. Sri Lanka was a nation that was ravaged by a terrorist war until it was liberated under incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa's leadership. The nation is now treading towards speedy development to attain early economic prosperity. The action by Ban Ki-moon to appoint a Panel on Sri Lanka raises many doubts and questions on the sincerity of the world acclaimed body on democracy, security and justice. What action has the UN taken on substantiated war crimes perpetrated by powerful western forces in Kabul and Baghdad? What substantive evidence does the UN have to appoint such Panel of Experts on so called war crimes in Sri Lanka? Doesn't such action lead to direct interference into internal affairs of a sovereign nation? The UN must answer these questions.

Whenever Sri Lanka, trekked towards safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity in the past, it was brought under pressure by western entities. In May 2007, some MPs who sympathized with the LTTE in the British Parliament made a hue and cry over the war situation in the country. President Mahinda Rajapaksa responded to state that there was no room for foreign interference with regard to internal issues in his country. The President called upon the international community to recognize and uphold the independence, democracy and sovereign identity of his nation in keeping with the UN Charter's norms.

Ban -Ki moon, quite fresh in the Chair of UN Secretary General must read the past three decade history of this island nation in the Indian Ocean. He would then read that the LTTE did not even spare the powerful western diplomats based in Colombo. Former US Ambassador in Colombo, Robert O'Blake, German and some western diplomats came under attack by the LTTE when they flew to the East in March 2007 to see the reconstruction work over there. The German Ambassador was wounded and O'Blake escaped unhurt. Later, O'Blake claimed that the LTTE did not intend to target them. We do not know under what astrological expertise Robert O'Blake was able to make such a 'confident prediction' to be added to history, reversing the true meaning of the word 'prediction'.

These twists in words and sudden turns by the west lead to many questions. All we could say is that for a brutal terrorist leader like Velupillai Prabakaran it made no difference between a Robert O'Blake and a Rajiv Gandhi when he wanted to take a life. That was the true brutal style of slain Prabakaran in his three decade career as an international terrorist leader.

To Ban Ki-moon, as proud Sri Lankans we must say that we cherish the colour, language and the cultural diversity of our country. We seek to build out of that diversity, one nation, which shares a common sense of patriotism. We were forced to battle against the legacy of racial division and a conflict, which has tormented our society from the very beginning of our country's settlement by European people. We directly engaged ourselves to win that challenge through a true democratic and legitimate process to liberate this nation.

It was the White people who created that vexed ethnic problem to this island nation by their domination. But, all Sri Lankans, irrespective of race or religion rallied round to eradicate the menace of terrorism created by that vexed problem. It must be noted that the people lost opportunity to unify or understand each other, as our society over the centuries was underwritten by the perpetuation of the racial disparity born of a long period of colonial domination, the notion that indeed divided our people.

History has taught those who attempted to use force or dominate this land that no 'Outsider' could arrogantly assume the right to prescribe on us on what is good for our country. The principle objective of the United Nations is the maintenance of International peace and security. The UN must live up to the greater expectations that its founding inspired and not use its force on nations freed from terrorism. In the entire epoch in the history of man, the menace of colonialism, division, use of force by colonial masters only created mass burial grounds in this region of the world map.

Courtesy : Daily News

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