by hela puwath

WHY IS US EMBASSY (USAID ) BUTTING-IN  TO TAMIL LAND OWNERSHIP ISSUES?

 Rebecca Cohn, and Ambassador Butenis, why is the US Embassy (USAID) involved in Tamil land ownership issues?

 What business has the US in Sri Lanka’s Land issues?  And why is the Sri Lanka government allowing the US to interfere in the internal affairs of our country? Isn’t Sri Lanka a sovereign nation?

 U.S. IS NOT SURE ABOUT OUR AUTHORITY & ABILITY TO SOLVE LAND ISSUES  –  “occupation of land by non-original owners”

 The Us embassy says, “This study tour will focus on land tenure issues in a post-conflict environment and highlight issues of ownership security and occupation of land by non-original owners.”

 Is this not the signal to claim that the Sinhelese in the East and North are ‘non-original owners’ of Tamil homeland?”  Further, there is little doubt the LTTE “land registry” in Killinochchi printed their own land deeds out of Crown Land, and lands they drove out Sinhelese and Muslims from.

 Calling it “aid” (USAID), the US is interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, they are trying to subvert the authority of Sri Lanka government.  If this is not interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, what is? 

 The legitimate government of a sovereign nation should not look on, and let a foreign government subvert/undermine its authority.

 This is not “aid”, we think this is “subversion”. Don’t Sri Lanka have a functioning legal system to solve land disputes?  Is this not an attempt by the American embassy to create the impression that we don’t have the wherewithal to govern ourselves?  In other words implying that we are like their “Western Puppet” planted in East Timor.

 What business has the US embassy to go to solve Tamil land ownership issues bypassing the Sri Lanka government?  Sri Lanka is not The Panama Canal Zone.

 U.S. EMBASSY IS BYPASSING SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT IN DEALING WITH EX-REBELS

 We submitted to Lankaweb, “Smells Like Norway Trojan Horse – US Embassy to Rehabilitate Former Rebels” October 30, 2009, where we highlighted how the US embassy is “fishing in troubled waters”. There, bypassing the Sri Lanka government, the (USAID) US embassy was (is) directly re-training/rehabilitating ex-LTTE terrorists.  There the Embassy statement said the former “rebel” Pillaiyan too was re-habilitated by this USAID program. US Embassy in Colombo in a press release said “The Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan [former LTTE commander], alias Pillaiyan, has already participated in an event in Batticaloa.”

 We wrote, “…now comes another US aid project directly to the East, bypassing the government of Sri Lanka …” http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/10/30/smells-like-%e2%80%9cnorway-trojan-horse%e2%80%9d-us-embassy-to-rehabilitate-former-rebels/

 AID THAT BYPASSED THE GOVERNMENT

 Sri Lanka must not forget what happened to the “aid that bypassed the government”. We now know what happened to all that “aid” including some of the “tsunami aid”, and the “Wickremasinghe/Prabakaran aid”, that bypassed the government’s oversight.  Most Western governments and international Aid Agencies now demand that their aid be distributed through Western-paid-NGOs and Agents bypassing the legitimate democratically elected government of Sri Lanka.  We now know where the “aid” ended up!

 Judging from the massive hauls of arms and other enormous machinery that are being discovered daily, even now, it is inconceivable that these International Agencies and those foreign embassies – through whose agents they funneled their “aid” – did not know where their “aid” was going.

 Therefore, now Sri Lanka must ensure that this project USAID and others like it, coming from some foreign governments and aid agencies are not more of those “Trojan Horses” by other “Peace Facilitators” and “Good Samaritans”

 As we said then:  Paranoid, Cynic?

 Yes – given the Sri Lanka assault by the American Ambassador Robert Blake, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – and given the pair’s close association with the likes of financier Raj Rajaratnam, and lobbyist/ lawyer Visuvanadan Rudrakumaran!

 Not to forget, Gen. Fonseka’s campaign funds – half million (or more) US dollar bills!