India Yet To Decide on UNHRC Resolution
Posted on March 9th, 2014
Ira de Silva London, Canada
The Editor
The Hindu
Delhi, India
Dear Sir :
Delhi, India
Dear Sir :
Reference your news item on March 7,2014 that the Indian External Affairs Ministry has indicated that India is yet to take a final call on the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, is this not what India did on two previous occasions when it was abundantly clear to both those that were for the resolution and those who were against it that India was going to vote against Sri Lanka? It seems that the Indian Government does not have the integrity or honesty to make it known publicly that it will vote against the resolution. India was against country specific resolutions except in the case of Sri Lanka, again illustrating India’s dishonesty and total lack of principles. Sri Lanka is well aware that India will vote against it just as the U.S. and U.K. know that they can count on India to support them because all of them have a common bond, they are the worst violators of human rights which abuses are proven unlike what they claim about Sri Lanka. For the U.K. and India it is also to win votes in their respective countries.
The External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said: “There was no substantive discussion in that meeting on this matter.” – that is diplomatic jargon which is used to indicate a lie. Sri Lankans are well aware that India will vote against Sri Lanka to get votes in Tamil Nadu at the upcoming elections. That has been the pattern always where India harasses Sri Lanka on trumped up charges under the cover of human rights abuses when the whole world knows that India is one of the worst violators of human rights in the world. In the case of Sri Lanka it was India that trained, funded and created the Tamil terrorists to terrorise Sri Lanka and committed gross abuses of human rights on Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka.
It is necessary for the Indian media to publicise that Sri Lanka is a sovereign country and that India’s foreign policy of interference in the internal matters of it’s neighbours is recognized by them, is not appreciated and that they are beginning to consider getting together to counter Indian bullying.
As for the statement that “there are discussions going on in Geneva and we will take it from there” – Sri Lankans hope that in these “discussions” that Sri Lanka will bring to the attention of India that any investigation should and will include the role that India has played in terrorism in Sri Lanka and particularly the massive human rights abuses of the Indian forces in Sri Lanka because these Indian forces killed thousands, that 4000 rapes were documented, that Indian forces shelled the Jaffna hospital killing doctors, nurses and patients just to name a few FACTS documented by the Indians themselves. Further it is necessary to remind India that it was India that created, funded and supported the Tamil terrorists and used them to terrorize Sri Lanka. Today India is continuing it’s terrorism against Sri Lanka in Geneva not because it cares about the Sri Lankan Tamils who they killed indiscriminately by the thousand when given the chance but because India is pandering to the demands of the leaders of Tamil Nadu for votes in the next election. Tamil Nadu is dictating foreign policy to a weak Central Government and even calling for a separate “Indian resolution” to be tabled in Geneva. Should the Indian Government follow Tamil Nadu’s dictates and indicates to Sri Lanka in it’s discussions in Geneva that this is possible, it is hoped that India’s murderous, terrorist role will be highlighted so the whole world is aware of the true nature and role of India in the region. Sri Lankans hope that in that event the rest of the countries in the Asian region will join Sri Lanka to expose India. That should also take care of the “confidence building” measures because together with Sri Lanka, the other countries of the region have no confidence in India otherwise there is no need for “confidence building” discussions.
Yours truly,
Ira de Silva
London, Canada
March 9th, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Endia playing politics.
TN election is on April 24.
DMK is avoiding congress. No other Tamilian party ties up with them too. Endia uses it to put pressure on Tamilian dirt to tie up or NOT vote against SL.
Anyway the worst Endia can do is vote against us. They did it twice. We have nothing to lose from Endia.
March 9th, 2014 at 3:19 pm
Indian political leaders have demonstrated that they lack any vision and by that I go far back as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who upon independence took India into a massive Socialist society. Fearing the effects of Colonialism Nehru closed India’s economy to the world and created her own industries which on the surface looked sound. But as the years went by and these industries functioned without any competition that an open market would give they either ended up producing shabby products that went unquestioned or went bankrupt only to be bailed out by the government. Even the war with China was a shabby job for New Delhi failed to send her air force to defend the ground troops in time. The Chinese invaded India and then withdrew thereby winning the war by de facto. This singular act as plagued Indian politics to this day as China continues to claim Arunachal Pradesh and the province of Ladakh as her territory. She also claimed the independent nation of Sikkim as part of Tibet and by that part of China.
New Delhi did not learn her lesson till her economy almost collapsed in the early 1990’s under the Bharata Janata Party. It was only then that India opened her economy. This in the face that China with the visit from the US President Nixon opened hers in 1979 and was already a thriving economy. Sri Lanka opened hers in 1977 just before the war on Tamil terrorism started and even during the war Sri Lanka’s standard of living managed to be higher than any other South Asian nation.
New Delhi’s leadership continued to suffer under Indira Gandhi who in 1971 engaged in splitting Pakistan which cut Pakistan’s power by half but also created two new problems for India which was realized in the coming years. Then in 1974 with the help of the former Soviet Union India acquired the technology to build a nuclear bomb and detonated it. Again this only led the region to become more unstable as Pakistan soon reciprocated by getting the same technology from China and became nuclear weapons rival to India. At this time the cold war was at its zenith where the US and the Soviet Empire were at logger heads and the Soviet Empire and Maoist China were equally at logger heads.
By dividing Pakistan India cut her power by half and after India exploded her first nuclear device in 1974 created a nuclear rival to her west and an illegal immigration problem from Bangladesh. Which one is worse depends on how one views it. The western problem resulted in a perpetual cold war in the Sub continent thereby draining the resources of both Pakistan and India. To her east the massive illegal Muslim migrants from Bangladesh has destabilized the North Eastern Indian states where Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipur all have secessionist movements due to New Delhi’s apathetic approach of the border problems with Bangladesh.
Indira Gandhi’s leadership eventually led to her enacting an emergency act where she used the powers derived from that act to imprison her political opponents, force sterilization on the lower caste men and allowing elections to be suspended and civil liberties to be curbed. For much of the Emergency, most of Gandhi’s political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored between 1975 and 1977. New Delhi used the fear tactic of China taking over Sikkim to convince the current government to vote to join the Indian union. Though it was a success it also gave impetus to India as an aggressive power willing to either divide or take over her neighbors.
After a second election Indira Gandhi took on the Khalistan movement to secede from India. Brindanwale the Sikh leader finally took refuge in the Golden Temple of the city of Amritsar where it is the custom anyone who takes refuge in Sikhism’s Vatican will get the full protection and no harm will come to them. Operation blue star launched by Indira Gandhi made a mockery of it, killed Brindanwale and his followers along with a few hundred innocent pilgrims in that temple. The operation had two components: Operation Metal, confined to the Harmandir Sahib complex, and Operation Shop, which raided the Punjabi countryside to capture any suspects. Following it, Operation Woodrose was launched to thoroughly scan the Punjab countryside. The operation was carried out by Indian Army troops with tanks, artillery, helicopters, armoured vehicles, and chemical weapons. Actual casualty figures given by Kuldip Singh Brar put the number of deaths among the Indian army at 83 and injuries at 220. According to the official estimate, 492 civilians were killed, though some independent claims run as high as 5,000. This was in June 1984.
Indira Gandhi in 1982 had already started training Jaffna Tamil youth across India to become the foot soldiers of a terrorist war against Sri Lanka. One would conclude that this followed similar lines of Islamabad in forming terrorist outfits to take on India. Finally Indira Gandhi paid with her life for operation blue star when her Sikh body guards killed her. This led to a nation wide atrocities against the Sikh community by the Indian Hindus. During this time the crisis in Kashmir of seceding from India grew. Some analysts have suggested that the number of Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir is close to 600,000 although estimates vary and the Indian government refuses to release official figures. Over time the Indian government has increasingly relied on military presence and a curtailment of civil liberties to achieve its aims in Kashmir. The military has committed massive human rights violations. For most of the history of the insurgency the government paid little attention to the political views of the Kashmiri people. The government would often dissolve assemblies, arrest elected politicians and impose president’s rule. The government also rigged elections in 1987. In recent times there have been signs that the government is taking local elections more seriously. The government has also funneled development aid to Kashmir and Kashmir has now become the biggest per capita receiver of Federal aid.
Regarding the North Indian state of Assam The conflict started in the 1970s. It stems from tension between Assamese and alleged neglect and internal colonization by the Indian government with its federal center in Delhi. Additionally, the state is rich in oil resources. The Assamese Separatist Movement alone has taken a toll of 12,000 ULFA (United Liberation front of Assam) members and 18,000 others. The secessionist goals of the separatist movement in Assam have lacked popular support, with most Assamese sympathizing with the separatist groups but not empathizing with their goals. ULFA founded at the site of Rang Ghar on April 7, 1979, a historic structure from the Ahom kingdom. Military operations against it by the Indian Army that began in 1990 continues till present. In the past two decades some 30,000 people have died in the clash between the rebels and the government. Though separatist sentiments deems strong, , it is disputed if the secessionist movement enjoys popular support any longer. On the other hand, strong Assamese nationalism can be found in Assamese literature and culture. The neglect and exploitation by the Indian state are common refrains in the Assamese-language media.] There are instances when even the ULFA leaders are seen as saviors.
In Gujarat The 2002 Gujarat violence, also known as the Gujarat pogrom was a period of inter-communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat which lasted for approximately three days. Following the initial incident there were further outbreaks of violence in Ahmedabad which lasted for approximately three weeks; statewide, there were further outbreaks of mass killings against the minority Muslim population that lasted about three months. The burning of a train, for which 31 Muslims were convicted, in Godhra on 27 February 2002 which caused the deaths of 58 people, which included Hindu activists returning from Ayodhya, is believed to have triggered the violence. Some commentators, however, hold the view that the attacks had been pre-planned, were well orchestrated, and that the attack on the train was in fact a “staged trigger” for what was actually premeditated violence.
According to the official figures, the riots resulted in the deaths of 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus; 2,500 people were injured non-fatally, and 223 more were reported missing. Other sources estimate that up to 2000 Muslims died. There were instances of rape, children being burned alive, and widespread looting and destruction of property. Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of initiating and condoning the violence, as have police and government officials who allegedly directed the rioters and gave lists of Muslim-owned properties to them. In 2012, Modi was cleared of complicity in the violence by a Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court of India.
New Delhi’s incompetency can best be surmised by the fact that India is the world’s largest recipient of foreign aid since her independence and to date has nothing to show for it. In spit of hundreds of Billions of dollars pumped into India by the IMF and the World bank India’s slums which did not exist during the British raj, continue to grow. The slum in Mumbai is the largest in Asia. The corruption in India is at all levels from the highest echelons to the street sweeper corruption and her unbeatable Caste system has created a poisonous social brew of eternal poverty and disenfranchisement to her One Billion three hundred million people. India continues to grow at an unsustainable level of 15 million people each year.
India’s proxy war with Colombo ultimately failed when in 2009 Sri Lanka’s military defeated Prabhakaran and the LITE. Yet India continues her crusade against Sri Lanka. She hosts both TESO (Tamil Eelam Supporters Organization) and TELO (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization) to this very day as she joins with the UK and US in leveling human right resolutions on Colombo.
March 9th, 2014 at 3:26 pm
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1980’s the central Asian Muslim nations turned to India because at that time China was still an enemy with the former Soviet Empire, India was the strongest alley of the former Soviet Empire, had the second largest Muslim population and claimed to be the largest Democracy in the world. Instead of taking this golden opportunity to truly rise as a regional power New Delhi instead turned to the US to sign a broad based alliance which included massive technology transfers, military enhancement, to a slew of other state of the art technology issues which to this day has still to materialize. Instead Russia and China in the 1990s decided to bury their differences and form and alliance which only grew with the formation of Russia’s Collective Security Treaty Organization and China’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Now in the Security Council both nations work in tandem against the US UK and France on any issues that would be harmful to either of them in any way. Again New Delhi made a grave geopolitical mistake.
March 9th, 2014 at 5:03 pm
India will not budge it will vote with their USA and the British Masters. India has no back born to put Jayalalith in her place.
March 9th, 2014 at 6:25 pm
Now both Endia and Sri Lanka is keeping quiet about India’s vote. Why ? Why our buggers cannot disclose what Endia and their morons told them ? Why so scared of Endia ?
Before we talk about backbone of Endia where is the backbone of Maha Ranee ?
March 9th, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Maha Ranee is a relative of Endia.
Last Saturday Jeya ORDERED Maha Ranee to IMMEDIATELY release ALL TN fishermen.
Guess what!
Maha Ranee IMMEDIATELY released and transported them to the MBL where they were handed over to Endian navy!
Maha Ranee is Jeya’s little cute poodle. Jeya calls him Mara Kunju.
March 9th, 2014 at 8:41 pm
INDIA has already decided to vote against Sri Lanka because it is ruled by a brain dead, spine less puppet controlled by the LTTE supporters in Tamil Nadu. If he goes against them Sing might have the same fate as Rajive Ghandi. For centuries, India has always been our biggest enemy and it is time the government come out openly and tell them so.