Con group ICG exposed
Posted on May 23rd, 2010

Ben Silva

Introduction

The ICG Asia Report NƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚°191 ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” 17 May 2010, is nothing but an anti Sri Lankan propaganda document full of venom against Sri Lanka, produced by the collaboration of enemies of Sri Lanka in HRW and perhaps the anti Sri Lankan Tamils in UN, such as Navi Pillai and ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”PottuƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ Coomaraswamy. The report is a malicious, venomous anti Sri Lankan document carefully crafted to mislead the reader. The collaboration between Tamil ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”PottuƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢Coomaraswami in UN, and Garath Evans of ICG is well known. It appears that there is a deadly network, more like a web, of enemies of Sri Lanka, collaborating to act against Sri Lanka. Ms` Louise Arbour, President Emeritus Gareth Evans and the co-chair Lord Chris Patten have been critical of Sri Lanka and sympathetic to the ruthless Tamil separatist terrorist group, on previous occasions. They have previously attempted to give a life line to the terrorists. It appears that they are unhappy that Sri Lanka did not fall into their trap to give a life line to the terrorists and hence their revenge attack on Sri Lanka.Their report clearly shows their bete noire towards Sri Lanka and the report should be treated as a hate document and fit for the bin. Due to the nature of the document and its source, the document should not be taken seriously. It appears that ICG is seeking the same gratification as the abusers at Al Gharaib, by being abusive towards the brown skinned Sri Lankans. The report however expose the new nature of imperialism and their fronts, in the guise of ICG, which in Sri LankaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s case appear to be an instrument for creating a crisis. Sri Lanka managed to resolve a crisis, created by terrorists, receiving funds from Western Countries, on its own. Why on earth is ICG attempting to create a crisis now ?

There is some thing wrong and rotten with the whole white racist, imperialist mindset, as shown by the activities of ICG.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Human rights violations of countries that accuse Sri Lanka

Imperialist countries have violated the human rights of peace loving citizens in too many countries, eg Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Laos etc and in too many cases, the perpetrators were not punished, and the impunity encouraged others to commit the same crime. Western countries have ethnically cleansed native Americans, robbed their land, killed native Africans and robed their land, Killed millions of Arabs and robbed their oil, killed thousands of Sri Lankans and robbed their land, nuclear bombed Japan, raped Viet Nam. Bombed Laos, fire bombed Dresden, and recently killed millions in Iraq now want to talk of violations of human rights. What sort of hypocrisy is this ? Imperialists appear to use fronts such as ICG to justify hounding sovereign states. They have raped Asia, Africa and the Middle East and now the ICG has invented a new tool R2P to invade sovereign states on false pretexts, just like WMD was used to invade Iraq. The truth about ICG is now emerging as they have conveniently ignored the mega killers of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and is hounding the victim of Tamil racist terrorism.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Funding of terrorism

An interesting and significant observation is that, Tamil terrorism was funded from money raised in Western countries, the very same countries that hound Sri Lanka. Western countries turned a blind eye to LTTE fund raising. They should have been blamed and made accountable for destruction in Sri Lanka. ICG did not make the Western nation accountable for the terrorist fund raising in those countries

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Motive for the ICG report

The article with the title ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-International Crisis Group helps some to sell themselves for a few pieces of Silver ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…- by Raj Gonsalkorale ref: http://www.asiantribune.com/category/categories/news-analysis expose the possible motive of the ICG report and the glaring errors. I find it difficult to believe that ICG are unaware that photographs can be doctored and people can make any statement for a few dollars. Also people with malicious intent may be using ICG to satisfy their agenda. So many things are possible, but the only thing that is certain is that the ICG has not got a clue about the situation in Sri Lanka and they have allowed themselves to be manipulated either willingly or through ignorance.

Further media reports indicate the possibility that Stephen Solarz is behind the ICG report ref: http://uk.mg40.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand=4hvnro4nun2ab

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ We have to be aware that organization such as HRW, ICG produce sensational reports to attract donors, for marketing purposes and for self promotion. We also need to be aware that various NGOs, HRW and even UN are lobbied by LTTE fronts and all these orgs may get the same LTTE propaganda and hence produce similar reports. Also these organizations get publicity irrespective of the accuracy of the reports.

For the above mentioned reasons, we should not attach much weight to the garbage reports produced by the NGOs mentioned.

ICG not only wants to destabilize Sri Lanka, but they want to set the whole Indian subcontinent set on fire by indirectly supporting terrorism, giving a life line to racist terrorists and hounding Sri Lanka. I showed with detailed analysis and with evidence that ICG reports are inaccurate reports, full of errors, hearsay and lack in facts. Details of false reporting by ICG is given in http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items07/150807-2.html

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Deadly trap for Sri Lanka

The Western nations prepared a deadly trap for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka did not fall into the trap, and for this purpose ICG and Western countries are unhappy. If Sri Lanka fell into the trap. It would have been the end of the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, and gradually the Tamils would have wiped them out just like the Spanish did to the native Indians. The trap was this : Stopping the war at the critical moment, after surrounding the terrorists, following the advice of Bernard Kouchner and David Milliband, without guarantees of the Tigers laying down their arms. This would have given a life line to the terrorists and it would have perpetuated the war in overt and covert ways, leading to more deaths and destruction. Besides, the international community was recommending to Sri Lanka what they had never done in any of their wars or will every do in their wars to come. Mrs Thatcher sank Belgrano, after Begrano was leaving the conflict area, outside the British-declared Total Exclusion Zone. This cowardly act of sinking a retreating ship resulted in the loss of over 300 lives. The killing of civilians using drones, from the safety of home or an aircraft hundreds of miles away is no less cowardly. Mr Blair invented WMD to mislead UK and the world. Land from native Americans, Native Africans and even the Chinese were robbed on lies, fraud and false pretexts. Patten should know this as he returned the robbed land back to the Chinese. Now ICG is trying to hoodwink and mislead the world with bias and cherry picking evidence. Evil imperialists who have utter disrespect for humans, will create rules as they go along, and make use of fronts such as ICG to mislead the world. Imperialists are only interested in one thing: the assets of poor nations, as shown by Tony lair invading Iraq for oil, on false pretexts. The jaundiced report ICG report shows that it is an effort by con men, from Western countries to mislead the world and hang on to power and invade other countries at any cost. a UN member states should be informed of the bias and the evil nature of ICG.

There is also the danger that with the help of groups such as ICG, imperialists can engineer a situation for intervention. This is a dangerous situation that the world must be aware of as Tony Blair engineered a situation for intervention by his invention of WMD.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Agenda of LTTE and the naivety and apathy of ICG

ICG has not got the faintest idea on the situation in Sri Lanka. In a nutshell, LTTE attempted to emulate Chola empire builders and attempted to create a Tamil empire. ICG appears to get erroneous secondary data from LTTE sympathizers and has failed to check the data for authenticity and accuracy. Sri Lanka was fighting a war against ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-the deadliest terrorist of the worldƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ (CIA report), and those associated with ICG attempted to give a life line to the terrorists, that would have caused economic ruin of Sri Lanka and brought about death and misery to Sri Lankans for decades. Instead of praising Sri Lanka for defeating blood thirsty terrorists that engaged in murder, child soldering, bribery, assassination, terrorism, pillage etc, ICG is attempting to harass and abuse Sri Lanka, in the same manner as abusers of Al Gharaib.

So called experts such as Prof. Meadows acted beyond their ability and knowledge and abused innocent victims and had to be exposed. It appears that the so called experts at ICS are acting in a biased and abusive manner. The very fact that ICG is ignoring white mega killers of Iraqis and Afghans, who have killed millions in Iraq and Afghanistan, using awesome deadly weapons, who have killed more civilians by a factor of 10 or 100 is itself sufficient to show bias and racism of ICG. In attacks carried out by Western countries they use weapons such as the drones that do not allow the victim to surrender or escape and many civilians have been killed in Afghanistan. The barbarism Human rights violations displayed at Guantanamo bay camps and Abu Gharaib is ignored by ICG. The human rights violations carried out by Western forces are given in the references 1 to 8 and not a word of protest has been heard from ICG, clearly showing their bias. The massive human rights violators from the dawn of history have been carried out by Western nations and the funding for ICG comes from the Western nations that have carried out human rights violations. What is now apparent is that ICG is a front of Western nations to carry out more abuse rather than an institution to resolve a crisis.

It is worrying that ICG is manipulating opinion, perhaps for the purpose of propaganda warfare against Sri Lanka, with biased and inaccurate reports.

ICG reports are simply one sided, supported terrorists and highly and unfairly critical of Sri Lanka and conveniently ignoring more serious violators of human rights. They appear to be a pro imperialist, dangerous group, which will bring about instability and may cause crisis in various regions in the world. Their obvious bias is shown by the manner in which they hound Sri Lanka and the manner in which they conveniently turn a blind eye to the millions of civilians killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam and so on.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Bias and false reporting by ICG

Large number of reports have been published, references 8 to15, indicating the bias and false reporting of ICG.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Truth about the situation

A response posted at position number 59 to the article carried in the Globe & Mail, related to the ICG report on May 21, 2010 will give a picture closer to the truth. An extract from the response is given below.

ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-The ICG Report contains a series of allegations based on unsubstantiated evidence. The UN nor other INGO had any officials on the ground to count casualties. Even the doctors who remained behind to work in the hospitals within the Tamil Tiger (LTTE)controlled terrain later admitted that they were compelled to make bogus reports to the foreign media and other HR groups at the behest of the LTTE. In fact, Dr. Michael Abeyratne, a senior surgeon after inspecting a hospital reportedly attacked with artillery and mortars killing 300 instantly and injuring over 700 civilians who sought medical care at this facility had this to say: “The videos shown by the BBC and BY AL JAZEERA were full of inconsistencies. As shown by Al Jaz themselves the shell attack was debunked because there was no damage to windows glassware and roofs as could be expected from any kind of explosion. The row of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”bodiesƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ shown from the waist down did not have their legs in the cadaveric position and there was no blood anywhere not even on the immaculate white surgical gown of the doctor who claimed that he was attending to severely injured patients 24/7.

No Blood anywhere. An adult patient will have 5 litres at least and 300 in the small space shown will make a pool at least ankle deep. Why was there not a drop anywhere? I hope not only for the sake of the three doctors concerned but also for all of us medics in this country that they had acted in this charade under duress with an LTTE AK 47 held to their backs.” According to studies made after interviewing the internally displaced Tamils and LTTE surrendees, the civilian death toll has been put at under 1500 with numerous others replacing fallen cadres dying in combat. ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ There is also evidence that Sri Lankan security forces carried out a self-imposed ban on air bombing, artillery and mortar fire whenever they were confronted with battle zones which were home to civilians. The field commanders were very mindful of this. GOSL at all times adopted a ‘zero civilian casualty’ principle, despite fighting an unconventional war with a terrorist group which adopted each and every method of warfare. Further food and medicine were supplied to civilians overcoming many barriers, even though GOSL knew that some food and medicine fell into the hands of LTTE. This is a clear indication that GOSL genuinely cared for the Tamil civilians. GOSL opened up corridors in the battle zone so that civilians could flee to government controlled areas. Nearly all of the civilians left the battle zone and the whole world saw footage recorded from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) which showed how the LTTE fired at and killed civilians trying to leave the battle zone. Thousands of civilians were evacuated in this manner and the hypocrisy of the LTTE was exposed. Clearly GOSL cared for and saved civilians and it was the LTTE that harmed civilians.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Comparison of conduct of nations facing external threats

The fact is, if nuclear weapons was used in Japan, fire bombing of Dresden was carried out, if millions were killed on the false pretext of WMD in Iraq, then the Sri Lankan forces were justified in using whatever method to protect the only home land the Sinhalese against racist occupiers with foreign links. However utmost care was taken by GOSL to protect Tamil civilians and there is video evidence showing the caring nature of GOSL security forces., GOSL has safeguarded the safety of its citizens in an exemplary manner in contrast to the awesome and barbaric killing of millions of civilians by the invaders of Iraq. ICG and HRW should be hounding these massive violators of Human rights rather than Sri Lanka.

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Crisis facing the world

The world is indeed facing a crisis due to over population, global warming, poverty, starvation and disease amongst the poor. It has been reported in the media, BBC, that there are over 3000 preventable deaths due to disease alone and many children die of starvation. Yet the incompetent racists at ICG, who publish biased, inaccurate reports, want to spend their time and energy hounding the victim of terrorism, Sri Lanka, instead of dealing with real issues. Those in reponsile positions in ICS has demonstrated their lack of competency by ignoring key crisis areas in the world.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ICG report and ICG unmasked

When the mask of the ICG report is removed, it is clearly seen to be in favour of Tamil Tiger terrorists and against the democratically elected GOSL. As LTTE is known for bribery and corruption, an investigation should be carried out to determine if bribery has been used to produce the ICG report and to determine the source of their data.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ICG should be known as the International Con Group. The world need groups that attempt to solve problems related to all humans and not con men promoting racist imperialist agendas. Is the ICG report an example of a nauseating case of corporate distortion of the truth for its own hidden agenda ?

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ReferencesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 

1. http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/asia/afghanistan/afghanistan.html

2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/16/baha-mousa-inquiry

3. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/14/nato-rockets-kill-afghan-civilians

4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7092522.ece

5. http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/amnesty.htm

6. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/civilian-death-soldiers-not-just-few-bad-apples-1790935.html

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