{"id":107987,"date":"2013-09-29T00:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=107987"},"modified":"2013-10-02T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T08:47:02","slug":"an-accounting-of-the-allegedly-bought-and-paid-for-enemies-of-the-sri-lankan-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/an-accounting-of-the-allegedly-bought-and-paid-for-enemies-of-the-sri-lankan-state\/","title":{"rendered":"An Accounting Of The Allegedly \u201cBought-And-Paid-For Enemies Of The Sri Lankan State\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Emil van der Poorten<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emil van der Poorten<\/p><\/div>\n

Every time any individual or group, foreign or local, sounds in any way critical of the Rajapaksa Regime, their local lackeys come storming out of their trenches, bayonets fixed, ready to do battle against \u201cthose in the pay of the neo-imperialists, \u201cthe \u201crump of the LTTE,\u201d the \u201cTamil Diaspora\u201d and\/or some other anti-Sri Lankan entity that they either invoke or create for the occasion.<\/p>\n

The reason that these folk incessantly advance for the allegedly evil conduct of these enemies of our heaven on earth is that they are simply \u201cjealous of a country being run by and for Sri Lankan Buddhists <\/em>as a virtual Valhalla.\u201d\u00a0 These enemies of the (Sri Lankan) people are allegedly driven by simple JEALOUSY,<\/strong> no less and no more.\u00a0 <\/strong>I have been generous in my use of italics and bolded capitals in the preceding sentence because the obsessive behaviour I describe is deserving of such hyperbole.\u00a0 What makes matters even worse is that a significant number of people in this country buy into this belief!\u00a0 It has reached a point where a friend, writing recently to Colombo Telegraph, appears to have thrown up his hands in despair, saying the only sane response for anyone of decency was to leave Sri Lanka post haste!<\/p>\n

Let me, however, try to advance a few facts that I hope will stop those now in mid-stride to the passport office, have them pause and consider the context of the current lunacy and return to hearth and home to give the land of their birth \u201canother chance,\u201d if you will.<\/p>\n

Since these allegedly subversive organizations are identified as the root of Sri Lanka\u2019s problems and ultimately responsible for a potential mass exodus of Sri Lankans of civility, it might be instructive to examine the credentials of those evil organizations.<\/p>\n

The consistent claim \u2013made over and over again, without a shred of evidence in support of it – is that those organizations critical of affaires Sri Lankan <\/em>are in the pay of \u201cthe Tamil diaspora\u201d in one guise or another.\u00a0 They seek to destabilize Sri Lanka and hand it over, presumably, to those same evil paymasters, the Big Bad Wolves of this particular tale.\u00a0 That scenario has the evil \u00e9migr\u00e9s <\/em>returning in triumph, killing all the Sinhala Buddhists and living happily ever after!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s examine the more prominent of the international organizations that have consistently been pilloried in this manner particularly for calling for an independent investigation of the crimes against humanity and war crimes that were\/might have been committed by both sides in the final days of the \u201cEelam war\u201d because it is they who are primarily accused of \u00a0being cat\u2019s paws for the Eelam Horde and those of us critical of the current Sri Lankan government.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take the oldest of the currently prominent human rights organizations, Amnesty International (AI).\u00a0 Its statement of purpose reads: \u201cto conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated.” \u00a0It first made an international impact, shortly after its founding in the very early seventies, in Sri Lanka, when educated rural youth, in an insurrection driven by unemployment, were being tortured and summarily executed by a government responding with unbelievable ferocity to their revolt.\u00a0 AI sent observers here, including one of its leading lights at the time, Martin Ennals, and ended up criticizing the government of Sirima Bandaranaike for its extra-judicial methods.\u00a0 AI has more than three million members worldwide and I am proud to have been a member of it many years ago while many of my friends continue in membership, actively supporting its work worldwide.\u00a0 It is more than a bit fanciful, to say the least, to suggest that such an organization can be bribed, in any shape, form or fashion, to do the bidding of any or all of the expatriate Tamil organizations or other evil-doers, don\u2019t you think?\u00a0 In any event, a reference to the Wikipedia entry for the organization might prove instructive to the monumentally ignorant who keep parroting the official government line in the matter of \u201cenemies of the state.\u201d\u00a0 Sadly, those who are that ignorant will continue to be so because they choose that level of ignorance!<\/p>\n

Next, let\u2019s take a look at the International Crisis Group (ICG).\u00a0 Again, I\u2019d recommend going to the internet for comprehensive information on the organization.\u00a0 However, it might be appropriate to refer to a few individuals who helped bring it into existence and continue to support it.<\/p>\n

Among the founders were a President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, Gareth Evans (a past Foreign Minister of Australia) and Bernard Kouchner (founder of Medecins Sans Frontiers and future French Foreign Minister then).\u00a0 The current head of ICG is Louise Arbour who has a history without equal as a jurist, beginning in the Province of Ontario (Canada) where she distinguished herself not only on the bench but chairing very important special commissions of inquiry.\u00a0 She was elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada which she left to become the Secretary General of the United Nations Human Rights Council.\u00a0 There she was responsible for bringing to justice the first war criminals from the old Yugoslavia. \u00a0\u00a0She has been the recipient of something like forty (that\u2019s right 40) honorary doctorates!\u00a0 Among ICG\u2019s Board Members are Kofi Annan (a past Secretary General of the UN who, for the benefit of those alleging the organization to be a creature of US foreign policy, was pushed out of the UN by the US because he wouldn\u2019t toe that country\u2019s \u201cline!\u201d), Wim Kok, a previous \u00a0( Labour Party) Prime Minister of Holland etc.\u00a0 ICG has been consistently critical of human rights abuses around the globe, not letting off the hook states very obviously \u201cclients\u201d of the USA.<\/p>\n

How about Human Rights Watch (HRW)?\u00a0 Suffice it to say that it has come under fire for being \u201cpro-U.S-policy\u201d in Latin America and \u201canti-Israel\u201d in its treatment of issues involving the Palestinians.\u00a0 Any organization that is caught in that kind of cross-fire can hardly be accused of an overweening Pro-US bias!\u00a0 Its statement of purpose reads, \u201cPursuant to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Human Rights Watch opposes violations of what it considers basic human rights, which include capital punishment and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Human Rights Watch advocates freedoms in connection with fundamental human rights, such as freedom of religion and the press.\u201d\u00a0 Given dedication to those ideals, one need hardly be surprised that HRW comes under consistent attack both by the current government of Sri Lanka and its acolytes!<\/p>\n

Constraints of time and space do not permit of discussion of the other \u201cculprits\u201d in the matter of being \u201cpaid conspirators\u201d against Sri Lanka.\u00a0 These include, but are not restricted to, Barack Obama, Members of the British and Canadian Houses of Commons, the Swiss, German and French legislatures, the US Senate, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Tutu, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy etc.<\/p>\n

The political climate in Sri Lanka is one in which Richard Milhous Nixon would have thriven!\u00a0 There is what can accurately be described as a dedication to falsehood, threat and intimidation in response to anything resembling critical assessment.\u00a0 This extends into every area of expression, be it at time of elections, in the media generally or even in the matter of private street-corner or drawing-room conversation, with virtually every media outlet either owned or controlled by the government or self-censoring to the point of irrelevance in its reporting.\u00a0 A recent classic example of this is the fate of Sri Lanka\u2019s Columnist of the Year 2012, Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema, who had her home invaded TWICE, and her family, including a ten-year old daughter absolutely terrorized by armed thugs.\u00a0 This was followed by a completely fraudulent story, alleging her possession of jewellery of huge value, circulated as an \u201cofficial\u201d response.\u00a0 That this act of terrorism didn\u2019t end in murder(s) was only due to fortuitous circumstances \u2013 her husband arriving home in the early hours of the morning rather than being in the house at the time the gang broke in!<\/p>\n

I saw a recent reference to that famous quote about taking the beam out of one\u2019s eye before pointing out the mote in one\u2019s neighbour\u2019s.\u00a0 That certainly came to mind when juxtaposing the barrage of accusations against those allegedly in the pay of the Tamil Tiger Rump\/Tamil Diaspora\/Enemies of the People of Sri Lanka against the kind of criminality that Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema and her family have been subjected to.\u00a0 And the response of our media which seems only too ready to support the conspiracy theorists I have already mentioned?\u00a0 Not so much as a mention of the fact that no one even knows the whereabouts of Sri Lanka\u2019s most recent Columnist of the Year, chosen by the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) and The Editors\u2019 Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL), not even from the leading lights of those two organizations!<\/p>\n

The icing on that particular cake is that four days before I typed this – on the 19th<\/sup> of September – CTV News, Canada\u2019s most watched television network, reported the fact that Mandana had fled Sri Lanka and was in \u201ca north American country.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe the SLPI and TEGOSL should set up a special award for \u201cLack of Intestinal Fortitude\u201d and present it to one of their number next year!\u00a0 That might provide an indication of who are REALLY \u201c<\/strong>bought and paid for\u201d and by whom!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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