By The Sri Lanka Study Circle

23Mar 21 is a red-letter day for Sri Lanka. On this day, the little island nation once again bloodied the nose of America when she defeated its plan to drive home a deep nail of American colonialism into her.

America, unleashed its running-dogs at the UNHRC, hoping to establish a second Attorney General’s department in Sri Lanka under the direct control of the UNHRC, thereby setting the stage to fry our heroic soldiers in the American Electric chairs.

America was hoping to establish this mechanism by illegally vesting the power of the UN Security Council with the UNHRC, using a unanimous (or consensual) resolution against Sri Lanka as its executionary tool.

America laboured and laboured and ultimately gave birth to a mouse, Resolution 46/1.

The Resolution, totally contradictory to the multilateral spirit of the UN was not unanimous and consequently is not binding on Sri Lanka in any way.

There is not a sausage the Americans can do with it and the Global South, which foresaw the dangers of the American conspiracy, do not give a tuppeny damn to the defanged outcome, Resolution 46/1.

But during the process America deviously budgeted a sum of 2 million USD for the establishment of this investigative and prosecuting mechanism, arguing that it did so thinking that the resolution would be passed consensually. (It is rumoured that de Livera has been shortlisted by the Americans to head the parallel AG’s department).

The monies so set aside in the draft budget is usable only if the budgeted amount is approved at this year’s annual sessions.

The news on the grapevine is that the present administration in the Foreign Ministry is showing scant interest on the matter; no moves are being made to ensure that the monies budgeted by the US are NOT passed.

If the US budgeted money is passed at the UN by default due to disinterest and inattention of the Foreign Ministry, it could cause meaningless problems for Sri Lanka and the Global South.

It was in similar circumstances, in March this year, that Mahinda was compelled to cut across diplomatic lines of protocol and achieve what he did; he ensured there was no consensual vote for the running-dog resolution.    

Alarmed by the current events, Mahinda reportedly took the initiative to muster international support to ensure that the US budgeted money for the establishment of the parallel AG’s department would not be passed.  

When the Americans learnt of Mahinda’s moves, they moved immediately to strait-jacket him; Peiris and Colombage were attached to Mahinda’s entourage. 

On 10 Sep 21 Mahinda, the charismatic Sri Lankan leader, left for Italy to give the keynote address at the G20 Interfaith Forum that began on the twelfth.

One of those accompanying Mahinda was G.L. Peiris who, during two years of the covid crisis as Education Minister, left the children of Sri Lanka completely education-less, without even a shred of a plan to boast of.

That has been the history of Peiris from a lethargic adolescence to the geriatric present of sparse tresses of dyed hair.

 Peiris was sacked from his educational portfolio.

In a virtual unbroken political career of 30 years Peiris has survived and thrived, simply by making himself available as a stooge for the national and international centres of power; he had a good grounding, when he wooed and received beneficence from the estate of arch white supremacist and segregationist, Cecil Rhodes. 

Today, Peiris does not squirm when toadying for yankee Basil who is under strict American oath to work loyally towards achieving America’s objectives in Sri Lanka.

Unfortunately for Sri Lanka, Peiris, on being sacked, was given the Foreign Ministry Portfolio replacing Dinesh Gunawardena.

Gunawardena is not exactly a favourite of the Americans, having ably supported Mahinda during the March UNHRC issue.

Dinesh also put the record straight on 6.9 million people voting GR into power so that GR could fulfil his pledge to the people of pursuing a committed Non-Aligned foreign policy and rejecting outright any hint of Sri Lanka being a Neutral State.

This reconfirmation probably cost Dinesh his job in the Foreign Ministry.

Mahinda’s visit to Italy is shrouded in mystery; many red herrings have been drawn across the path and these are a source of distraction.

Was there a plan by the American Rajapaksas to destroy Mahinda’s image in the eyes of the Sri Lankan people?

In today’s context, News telecasts and social media are portraying seething anger against the Government, throughout the country, allegedly for serious acts of commission and omission.

Most of that anger is vented on GR who is considered by the people as an absolute failure and singly responsible for today’s sorry state of affairs in the country.

Mahinda on the other hand evokes plenty of empathy from the people who believe that Sri Lanka would not be in this position had he been in the saddle; there is an impression amongst the people that he is being deliberately side-lined and that there are undercurrents of a campaign to discredit him and the Sri Lankan Rajapaksas.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             It was in this background that people were surprised to see the demonstrations in Bologna and the subsequent news coverage of these incidents; they were all targeting Mahinda and non-whatsoever against the American ‘Paksas’

Many believe that the Americans are behind this campaign and that it is being conducted with the support of the strong Yankee fifth column in this country. Mahinda has for long been a bugbear for the Americans.

Will there be similar demonstrations when the Sri Lankan delegation to the General Assembly arrives in New York?

It may have gone unnoticed that Geneva is just 277 miles away from Bologna and that the 48^th session of the UNHRC began on 13 September.  Sri Lanka is very much on the agenda at these sessions.

If Peiris is one end of Mahinda’s strait jacket the other end is Colombage.

It would be recalled that pastor Colombage, with strong links with an insidious US funded think tank was talking with the enemy CORE group to hammer out a consensual resolution when he should have been talking with our friends in the Global South and the NAM to defeat the resolution; he is on record to ‘boastfully’ proclaim that Sri Lanka would surrender, but only after a fight.

Joker Colombage’s plans were thwarted when Mahinda suddenly intervened.

Knowing the calibre of Peiris, Colombage and the others of their ilk at the Foreign Ministry and with the UN station in Geneva being handled by a person who owes his appointment for being the author of an obsequious biography, the country must be made alert to what is happening.

If the unsolicited American monies are approved by the UN, the country and the people are forewarned about who should be held responsible for this lapse and who should be held responsible, in the consequent future for the incarceration of our heroic soldiers and the colonisation of our country.

All of these people are put on notice; the country will never forgive you.