De-stabilizer of nations
30 March 2017The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and particularly the international community -which wants to make the island the guinea pig for their war crimes probe in partnership by force with foreign jurists, should, nonetheless, take note of recent happenings in the island's North, the welfare of which people, the international community led by the West's agent, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), acts as their godfather, as befitting their own set agenda.
This newspaper, in two of its articles published in its Monday's edition, reported about the plight of, in particular of the Tamils in the North, not because of alleged atrocities committed by GoSL and of its agents, such as the Armed Forces and the Police, but, firstly, due to the actions of certain South Indian politicos and secondly, the UNHRC Resolution of October 2015 that calls for international jurists to investigate alleged war crimes vis-à-vis the GoSL-LTTE war and the repercussions of such an international investigation on former LTTE cadres, though, not necessarily in that order.
The lead story on this newspaper's Monday's edition pointed out that a renowned South Indian artiste Rajinikanth who was billed to donate houses built by a philanthropist to the citizens of Jaffna, was however prevented from visiting Sri Lanka for this mission due to the actions of certain South Indian politicos.
The other was an interview with a former LTTE cadre Ganeshalingam Chandralingam alias Thulasi published elsewhere on the pages of this newspaper, which warned that if an international tribunal, as advocated by the UNHRC, to which, foolishly and unthinkingly Colombo endorsed then, is set up, that may well mean the re-trial of 12,000 LTTE cadres already rehabilitated under Sri Lanka's own domestic judicial mechanism, or by its own domestic laws.
On Rajinikanth being blocked from visiting the island by certain South Indian politicos, this newspaper reported that there were protests by Jaffna citizens against this obstruction, i.e. by the very people, whom the international community led by the UNHRC, charges are victims of war crimes allegedly committed by GoSL and its agents.
But these protests were not against the GoSL for committing alleged war crimes against them, they were against those South Indian politicos responsible for blocking Rajinkanth's visit to the island.
Freedom of movement is a democratic right endorsed by the UN. But if this freedom is by anyway threatened or abused, allegedly due to acts of omission and commission committed by certain individuals, then, such acts need to be investigated by the authorities.
Might is not right, but right is might.
Meanwhile, the UNHRC Resolution of October 2015 not only confines itself to investigating alleged war crimes committed by GoSL and of its agents, but also by the LTTE. But, as pointed out by Thulasi, this may entail the reinvestigation of 12,000 former LTTE cadres who have since been released by Colombo, after serving their prison sentences for acts of terrorism.
If the domestic judicial mechanism was good enough to try those 12,000 former LTTE cadres, since released, can this same local mechanism be now considered as being bad enough by the international community so as to conduct their own investigations on GoSL and of its agents for alleged war crimes?
Is that the reason why the UNHRC wants international jurists to investigate such war crimes only?
Nonetheless, this cry against an international judicial investigation on the island's affairs is not coming from a member of the majoritarian Sinhala community whom the UNHRC led by the West despises as being the fountain of all evil, perpetrating crimes against the Tamils, particularly against the Northern Tamils, but this protest comes from a member of the Jaffna or the Northern Tamil community, and not by just a Jaffna Tamil or a Tamil from the North per se, but by a former LTTE cadre himself, in the name and form of Thulasi.
The UNHRC led by the West cannot limit its so called international judicial mechanism to try only GoSL and its agents, but as pointed out by Thulasi, it may also have to drag and reopen the cases of those 12,000 former LTTE cadres (whether they be from Jaffna or elsewhere from the North or for that matter from the East is not the question) as well, on the premise that all are equal before the law.
One cannot have a set of international laws covering only GoSL and its agents, while at the same time exonerating those 12,000 former LTTE cadres already cleared by the domestic laws of the country?
Not only must justice be done, it must also be seen to be done.
UNHRC led by the West, at least in the Sri Lankan context, is not just a bull in a china shop, but is also a de-stabilizer of a democratic country.
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