By Charles.S.Perera

Barrack Obama – the man well deserves the Noble Peace Prize.

 United States of Ameruica is a fractured Nation- fractured between the Blacks , and the Whites. In to this fractured Nation was born on the 4 August, 1961, Barrack Obama, fathered by a black man and mothered by a white woman. As a child he went through all the rigors of a child of a mixed marriage. He suffered the separation of parents, and living with people who were not his.

 Born into such circumstances, he has now paved the way for others of different communities born in to a same Nation to find their identity as members of the same Nation.

 He set an example to those who fight for ethnic separation like the Tamils in Sri Lanka to understand, if they can use their intelligence more positively, that separation of minority communities from the majority is a disaster for the country and the nation. He showed that it is not by denouncing the majority, and claiming separate homelands and political settlements that they can achieve success, and make the country progress as a Nation. That itself makes him deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

 Barrack Obama made it crystal clear, that it is through accepting the majority, seeking integration as equals that the communal unity could be achieved and even a leader from a minority community could rise to hold the highest office as the President of the country.

 The American blacks had been fighting for equal rights ever since slavery was abolished in America. Neither peaceful demonstrations nor aggressive opposition to the white American domination, found their acceptance and integration in to the white American Society.

 The early negro American movement that started from narrow racial advancement within America took a new turn after the World War 2 with the American black leaders lending their support for the people of countries seeking independence from European colonialism and against America for supporting the Colonialists.

 Subsequently they stopped their support for those seeking independence from colonialism to concentrate on a Civil Rights moment of the negro Americans. Many were the black Americans, such as Ella Baker, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, who became pioneers of the American Civil rights movement slowly but surely making cracks in the almost impenetrable wall of the American racial segregation.

 In 1983 still a young man in his 20s awaiting graduation, Barrack Obama decided to become a community organiser. “…to mobilise the poor and giving back to the community.…… through organising , through shared sacrifice , ……….because this community I imagined was still in the making , built on the promise that the larger American community, black, white, and brown could somehow redefine itself- I believed that it might ,over time, admit the uniqueness of my own life…… This was my idea of organising”.

 Thus he wrote in his book “ Dreams from My Father”. Having had no response to all the letters he wrote to civil rights organisations, councils and tenant rights groups, he decided to find conventional work for a short time before starting on his community projects.

 Subsequently he found employment as a research assistant to a multinational corporation, the only Blackman in the company. He was accepted in the company and promoted to the post of a Financial writer. But the call to the service of the under privileged people of his community was greater and he gave up his promising job to become a community worker in Chicago “ a job closer to street”.

 But soon he was out of a job, service to the community a distant dream. He wrote “……In six months I was broke ,unemployed , eating soup from a can.”

 Finally he met people doing Community service, and met an Organiser who put him in charge to Organise the community of people in Altgeld Gardens Public Housing project. A place which had been abandoned due to bad sanitary conditions, and heavy, putrid odour emanating from a sewage treatment plant seeping through the windows of the residential buildings.

 The Altgeld Gardens a housing complex, which was built to house affluent white Americans, after its abandonment became a dump to house the poor blacks away from white neighbourhoods. He worked with the people to improve their condition of living organising them into active working groups through the help of the Community Churches. He was undaunted by failures, not discouraged by the indifference and the surrender to poverty and hopelessness of life of the people whose lot he was trying to improve.

 It was Barrack Obama, the man that gave himself to the upliftment of a community without anger, hatred, and aggresivity. He neither criticised the whites nor praised the blacks, but in silence with patience and hard work he brought a dim light to the darkness of the lives of those with whom he worked. He gradually moved into politics not for his self aggrandisement but for the sake of other, where he thought he would be better placed to help the disadvantaged communities.

 He did not follow his erstwhile elders, to manifest against the whites and their racial regimes. But he worked in friendly cooperation with the his black community as well as the white community. He was able, through peace and friendly contact break communal barrier, first to become a Senator, and then to become the President of the whole of America of the Blacks, and the Whites.

 He surprised the world and then won the affection of all Nations. And to-day he is still working hard for the welfare of the poor, coordinate the rich to make America, and then the world a better place for every one to live without fear of natural disasters, economic upheavals, or the perils of a nuclear war.

 To what extent he will be successful only the future will tell. But still there are the whites who dislike him despite what he is, there are nations who pay no attention to what he proposes.

 But a day will come when his peaceful ways, patience ,and unflustered acceptance of criticism pay dividends and he will be able to make of America a country dedicated to peace and service of man.

 Barack Obama- this man who brought so much of change to himself, and changed the attitude of the American people as a Nation, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for what he had been, and his present pursuit of peace

By Charles.S.Perera

There is no anti-Americanism, and above all there is no anti- Obamanism, in Sri Lanka. There is on the other hand a dislike and displeasure of the American State Administration. It was not started by an identified or self identified nationalism or patriotism of the Sri Lankans, but by the American State Department Personnel and American politicians taking a pro terrorist and anti government move with regard to Sri Lanka.

 The avalanche of attacks by the Sri Lankans who took an offence over the statements made by Robert O’Blake the Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs and the Secretary of State Ms.Hillary Clinton, were justifiable and cannot be stated as tirades by self identified nationalists or patriots against American people or its President Barrack Obama.

 The President Obama will of course receive the same treatment by the Sri Lankans if they were offended by any of his pronouncements on unverified information given to him by his Officials of the State Department who have personal interest in discrediting the Government of Sri Lanka due to their close connection with the pro-terrorist Tamil expatriates calling themselves the “Tamils for Obama”.

 Therefore, it is in the interest of the Obama Presidency that all statements pertaining to Sri Lanka are verified from the “source” before they are submitted to the President or the Congress.

 Politically knowledgeable writers using pedantic Marxist verbiage some times write knowingly or unknowingly to give a lopsided view of the Sri Lankans who rightfully take offence over remarks or uncalled for statements against Sri Lanka made at International Forums by American Officials.

The sophisticated political analysts become verbal pugilists attacking people who feel for their country in a simple non affected way, and react to offensive unsubstantiated criticism , as xenophobic chauvinists, taking a distance form the new political revival brought about by Obama.

 The Sinhala who seem to have taken more offence over the statement made by Hillary Clinton and efforts of those others like Robert O’Blake to accuse Sri Lanka for violation of human rights are nonetheless aware of the importance of American revival brought about by President Obama, which should be an example for the racist politicians the world over, and specially the Tamil politicians of Sri Lanka, and the pseudo intellectuals like Kumar David, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Narapalasingham and the lot.

 Understanding Obama phenomena should make those who clamour for separation of communities under a federal system of government, to support communal unity through abolition of a political system highlighting the ethnic difference.

 The first step in this respect would be to have political parties named according to a political system it proposes rather than the Community which it supports. That has to be encouraged, but the move to introduce legislature in this respect has failed. It would be encouraging if the Tamil and Muslim Intelligentsia move to fall in line with the political systems where there are no political parties identified by reference to an ethnic or communal group they represent.

 The Sinhala do their part for the protection of the country and the Nation, taking arms against terrorism, or others come forward to oppose those who discredit the country or make damaging statements against its heroes who risked their lives in defence of the country, some speaking from public platforms, while others taking their pens writing to media with words that describe best their feelings. In such reaction there is no xenophobia, chauvinism or Sinhala supremacism. They rise to the occasion as a call of duty to support their motherland and its defenders.

 What differentiate the vitriolic reaction of Sri Lankans for the criticism of the Country or its Armed forces is that such criticism has been made to discredit the government and bring disrepute to its armed force, without supporting their venomous words with examples of instances of actual acts on which the accusations are made.

 Sri Lanka had suffered for 30 years under terror and many of its worthy political leaders, Army Officers, religious persons and hundreds of innocent men, women and children had been massacred , while the world looked on without giving any help to stop the carnage .

 America took arms against Al Qaida the terrorists, who for America were the terrorists posing a danger to America and its allies. The terrorists in Sri Lanka was not their concern, being not a danger either to America or its allies. The West was therefore more considerate and ready to accommodate them, demanding the government of Sri Lanka to negotiate with the terrorists for a political settlement.

 Negotiation was furthest from the minds of the Sri Lanka terrorists. They wanted “the pound of flesh” -a separate Eelam State. The West had nothing to loose and would have even liked Sri Lanka to have negotiated to grant the terrorists the Eelam State they wanted.

 It was in that climate the Government of Sri Lanka began its determined military operations in 2006, and eliminated terrorism and rescued over 200,000 Tamil people held in captivity by the terrorists in May,2009.

 How can then Sri Lanka, like Cuba speak to the West in a different tone and style without using corrosive vitriol ?

 The Sri Lankans speak up with anger against the critical West, because the West which is America and its allies, have no real interest in Sri Lanka, its Tamil, Sinhala or Muslim Communities, other than a political interest in Sri Lanka’s strategic situation in the Indian ocean.

 Now the West having had done nothing to help Sri Lanka to rid itself of the cancer of terrorism that had eaten into it, now comes out as angels sent from heaven to defend the poor Tamil IDPs .

 These IDPs were rescued by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces from the terrorists who had kept them as a human shield. The Sri Lanka Army risked their lives in the daring rescue mission which had no parallel any where else in the world. But the West interferes now in Sri Lanka which they had left to be terrorised by the ruthless armed terrorists, for no other reason than to help the pro terrorist expatriate Tamils, to divide Sri Lanka, which they failed to do through terrorism.

 Sri Lanka government which had without any one else’s help had rid itself of terrorism and rescued over 200 000 IDPs is quite capable of completing the task they had undertaken. What Sri Lanka needs is only financial aid, and not foreign NGOs to assist the IDPs which can easily be done by the Sri Lankans, with the Sri Lankan “peace time” Army.

 But the West instead takes the advantage of the occasion to divide Sri Lanka, a task left undone by the terrorists. The attempt of the West is a subterfuge to divide Sri Lanka differently with the aid of the expatriate Tamils, by bringing discredit to the government, put the IDPs and political parties of the opposition in Sri Lanka against the government to prepare a climate to politically divide the country between the Tamils and the Sinhala.

 That is the real situation in Sri Lanka vis-à-vis the Western interference, with false accusations . This is not the same as the situation of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Vietnam or China vis-à-vis the West.

 The reason why the Sri Lankans speak out with anger is not because of Sinhala ultra-nationalism or anti-Americanism , but it is to react against the injustice and unfair way in which the people with power try to be little their country despite what it has achieved, which the rich and affluent have failed.

By Charles.S.Perera

People living in glass houses should not throw stones at others is an old adage .How could it be related to the damaging Statement the American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton made to the UN Security Council, against the most disciplined Armed Force of Sri Lank, which not only eliminated a heavily armed ruthless terrorist force from Sri Lanka, but also rescued over 200,000 Tamil civilians kept as a human shield by these terrorists ?

 Sex and rape are offences that could easily be made against any one, even against a most respected person and leave him to live with the stigma all his or her life. It was an “ innocent “ sex play by a 22 year old intern who crept under a US President’s table in the Whitehouse to give the President a little sexual excitement that occasioned, for the first time in the history of America, for a US President to be summoned before a Federal Grand Jury, in August, 1998.

 That being so the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton should have been more circumspect in making accusations against the Armed Forces of a Sovereign State. No one, not even the Secretary of State of America has the right to make a general statement accusing all armed forces of developing countries put together, for an offence that tarnishes for ever the good name of a Sovereign State.

 The Secretary of State of America is an important personality , and no one expects her to make statements detrimental to a country or persons merely to satisfy the interest of a certain groups of people, or some interested parties. The statements she makes should be studied, and examined from different points of view, and above all verified for the correctness of the facts before presenting them not relying entirely on her informants, who may only have hear say evidence to support their claims.

 In this present instance she seems to have placed absolute trust in her informants, who are evidently the Tamil expatriates in America- who had for years supported the cause of terrorism in Sri Lanka. They have, therefore an interest to bring disrepute to the Government of Sri Lanka and its Armed Forces for the very reason of elimination of the terrorists, and Hillary Clinton has played into their hands.

 If the Secretary of State merely read out a report prepared for her, she should have read it before and got those responsible to verify whether the facts stated are correct and obtained from reliable sources.

 The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton , as a responsible person, which she is, should have consulted the President of Sri Lanka directly or through the Ambassador of Sri Lanka assigned to her country before she made the damning statement against Sri Lanka. After all Diplomatic Mission are established and Ambassadors assigned to a country to be consulted.

 If the Secretary of State deliberately avoided consulting the Sri Lanka Ambassador, and instead consulted the Associations of expatriate pro-terrorist Tamils , who are the front organisations for terrorists banned in USA, to prepare her report to the UN Security Council, on Sri Lanka, what is the necessity to have Ambassadors in USA accredited to represent their countries.

 Hillary Clinton has in her statement to the UN Security Council put “ within the same bracket” Congo, Sudan, Balkan, Burma and Sri Lanka as countries using rape as a tactic of war. She of course avoided putting America within that bracket despite the American Army being the worst case in this respect.

 Violent sex attacks and rape by American soldiers in Iraq have been revealed and documented. She avoids that, to include Sri Lanka being a country using rape as a tactic of war. That itself makes her statement a false statement of facts. She accuses the Sri Lanka Armed Forces based on false propaganda material of the pro terrorist Tamil expatriates, who seem to have access to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Asia Robert O’Blake claiming themselves to be the “Tamils for Obama “.

 Rape is an offence with which not only the soldiers , but any one could be accused to create a doubt about their character in the minds of a listener. That was why quite often the rape is broached when the necessity to discredit a party arises. Recently the UK Channel 4 used that tactic , again to accuse the Sri Lanka soldiers for the death of three women in a bathing area.

 One who accuses a person, or even an army for rape without substantial evidence is a very low and a wicked person. Because, it defiles the character of a person, and leaves him to live all his life with that stigma. It is the worst form of character assassination.

 The Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not only made an irresponsible statement, but put in question her suitability to hold such an important office in an administration which is looked up to by the entire world for its democratic principles, justice and fair play. It is respect for others, that bring respect to one self. If the Secretary of State does not deal honestly and honourably with developing countries, they will begin to doubt the honesty of America.

 Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State of America, should deal directly with the Officials of the respective countries without discriminating them for their size, or significance or not of their political importance. Politics are like personal relationships. A person who can be trusted to stand by , consults and advises is more a respected friend, than one who judges one, listening to gossip or tale carriers. Such a person is best to be avoided.

 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made an obviously false, an incorrect, and a damaging statement against Sri Lanka Armed Forces without even wanting to know who Sri Lankans are , and who are their political leaders. Even a new resident who comes to settle down in a new environment, makes an effort to get to know the neighbours by either inviting them or calling over to see and speak to them, but Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State of America is behaving like a bull in a China shop. She speaks with least concern for the people and governments.

 Why is it absurd and foolish , more than being wicked , to say that the Sri Lanka Armed Forces used rape as a tactic of war ?

 Because the Sri Lanka armed forces did not resort to rape during its war against the terrorists as they could not have, even if they wanted to, because terrorists were vigilant and present even if they were not seen, and if the Soldiers were not alert in their duty of relentlessly pursuing the enemy, the out come would have been disastrous.

 The military operations of the Government Armed Forces against terrorism lasted only about three years. Within that “short” space of time the Army could not relax to seek pleasure, or “ rape like gunning down an enemy”, as they were kept on their feet chasing the enemy through rain or sunshine. The Armed Forces could not give the terrorists time to come back to attack them, therefore the soldiers kept the enemy running away from the advancing forces.

 In such a climate how could the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speak about the Armed Forces using rape as a tactic of war. Hillary Clinton had merely been reading out a statement written by a speech writer whose imagination lacks intelligence.

 A political leader cannot behave like a “thug” making accusations and calling names to all and sundry. There should be a certain decorum and respectability in behaviour or in speech. A political leader of a great nation should search for information going to the very source not listening to every Dick and Tom, and Harry coming forward with half backed falsehood.

 Once it was Navi Pillai the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who collected information from the website of the terrorists to accuse the Sri Lanka Armed Forces for war crimes. And now it is sad to see the Secretary of State of the leader Nation of the World accusing Sri Lanka on hearsay evidence provided to her by the pro terrorist Tamil expatriates posing as the “Tamils for Obama “.

 These expatriates have been out of the reality of Sri Lankan political situation since they arrived in America in the 1980s. There is no reason for Hillary Clinton to have accused the Government of Sri Lanka depending on their evidence without speaking directly to the President of Sri Lanka or his accredited Ambassador in America.

 During the USA Presidential election campaign, Hillary Clinton spoke of not putting all terrorists into the same bag, as one is different from the other. That was a wrong evaluation of the reality. She considers that those terrorists that are harmful to America or Europe are real terrorists while others are “ freedom fighters” or liberators.

 The terrorists who terrorise a country an its people, massacre innocent people, explode bombs, use suicide bombs are as much terrorists even if they have no intention of carrying out terrorism in America.

 Hillary Clinton, now as the Secretary of State of USA should re-examine her earlier lopsided view of terrorism. Because she is now responsible for the well being of not only America, but also the humanity the world over, being the Secretary State of the leading Nation of the World. Therefore, her narrow view of terrorism carries no credence and is a danger to the world at large, unless she makes haste to inform herself from correct people in the correct quarters.

By Charles.S.Perera

United Nations Organisation “had been “ a symbol of equality and Unity of  Nations of the World. But to-day the UN does not symbolise  either  the Unity or the equality of Nations.  The developed countries dominate the World Forum and the Chief Executive the Secretary General  of the UNO  is only a “ puppet “ of the rich Nations, who are  determined to use the UNO for their political strategy to dominate the world.

 The United Nations representing  the  Nations of the World is nominally , the  Forum to settle conflicts, encouraging  dialogue between Nations  avoiding armed confrontation.  But despite the UNO, America  declared war against Iraq, hanged in “public”  its  Head of State and continues a war  allegedly to eliminate the  Al Qaeda terrorists.

 The powerful Nations have no concern for the UN and aggresses and takes covert action of all sorts against developing Nations, who are nevertheless,  members of the  UNO with equal rights.  Despite the UNO- the forum of world Nations, the developed Nations other than being Members of the UN,   run parallel Administrative Organs to control and take punitive actions against developing Nations by way of  withdrawal of special trade concessions and imposing  trade embargos, making reports discrediting governments on hearsay evidence  to US Congress Committees.

 Thus the rich and developed countries have  reduced the UNO to a banal talk shop, a biannual meeting place to  make resounding speeches of hope and glory by World Leaders.  UNO is no more what it was meant to be when its founding fathers with all sincerity  launched it with the hope of  make it a forum for Nations to debate and find solutions  to make  the world a safe and peaceful place for the humanity.

 The UNO was recognised by all Nations as an Organisation of consultation for settlement of conflicts avoiding armed confrontation. America should not have gone to war in Iraq without the approval of the UN Security Council.  If the UNO was meant to stop conflicts between Nations, the US State Department  should not be taking unilateral action to control nuclear  proliferation.  It should been referred to the UNO, as a decision making body for world affairs to establish peace and harmony  among the  Nations of the World, to take up the matter  directly with errant nations and  to be debated in its  respective Committees.

 If UNO  is the  recognised Organisation of  its Member States,  a Forum for Nations  to come together  and decide  collectively  before  any  action is taken by one Member State  against another, America as a Member State of the UNO should not  threaten Iran or North Korea with consequence of war if  they continue with their nuclear programmes.

 That issue should be debated even before a  meeting of the Security Council is called  to decide  punitive action  against Iran or North Korea for continuing  its nuclear programme.

 But  as it is UNO is skipped over by America to take unilateral decisions against a Member State.  President Obama’s America while denouncing the Bush Administration for going to war with Iraq, pursues the same hackneyed old  dangerous  methods of  the Bush Administration, to stop Iran from continuing its nuclear programme.

 If USA, Russia, France, China, India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, why should America go all out to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapons in its turn.  What is the difference between Iran and other Nations who have  developed  nuclear weapons ?

 It is time for America and its European allies to decide whether they want the UNO to continue for the purpose for which it was established or leave it to take  their own unilateral decision against member states and suffer the consequences. 

 No Government would subjugate their sovereignty without making an attempt to defend itself.  A time may come when all those countries that do not toe the American and European  line may  unite to rise against them. In such an event even a nuclear warfare cannot be ruled out.

 The election of the Heads of UNO, and its sister Organisations such as UNESCO are a mockery of democratic principles.  It is the rich countries who get a “puppet” candidate appointed to the Organisation, by political manoeuvres to win over  smaller  member state to vote for the  “puppet” selected by them.  Therefore, the more qualified and suitable candidates put forward by poorer countries are voted out in the first few round of voting.

 The UNO has set up its  Commission of human rights, and the present High Commissioner does not take any objective and independent decisions.   We have seen it happening recently in  Geneva, where the UN HCHR, was working hand in hand with the powerful Member States of the West who were making an all out effort to discredit the  government of Sri Lanka and accuse its armed forces for  war crimes, simply because it  eliminated the ruthless group of terrorists, with whom they Western Countries were conniving to break up Sri Lanka.

 When the High Commissioner found that  the aims of the anti-Sri Lanka Western Member States were foiled,  Navi Pillai the UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights went all out to  call for another vote to over rule the decision of the Human Rights Council.

 The UNO should be an organisation of Nations where they help each other, and take concerted decisions  to  help and develop the poorer nations,  and settle conflicts .  The UNO looses its right to exist as an  Organisation of the Nations of the World if  the  “ junior official “ of the Organisation are allowed to make individual statements against a member State.  

 Any criticism of  a member state should normally be made to the  UNO and placed  before a special General Assembly or a Committee of the Organisation  called to debate on  the matter to  settle it, and any statements pertaining to the subject of criticism should be issued by the Secretary General.

 The Security Council should be the ultimate  resort for any serious decision to be taken against a member state. 

 UNO cannot serve any useful purpose as long as the powerful Member States have their own Agenda. As it is,  they are there to use the UNO  to serve their own political ends.   The powerful nations are not interested in the welfare and development of  the smaller member states seeking the help of the rich  to rise out of their poverty or underdevelopment, but they are interested in setting up their political strategies to maintain their political leadership among Nations.

 We have seen it happening  in Chile, where  America used  CIA operations  to organise manifestations  and a military coup against its first Democratically  elected President Salvador Allende, and set up the Western “puppet” Augusto Pinochet the Military Commander , as the President of Chile.

  America was determined to oust Allende, whom they called a pro  Soviet Communist. His close friendship  with  the  Cuban leader Fidel Castro did not please them either. It is said that the CIA spent over one million Dollars for the Anti Allende  propaganda Campaign, and  to aid  his opponents.

 (In the light of this,  can we accept  that Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu and Jehan Perera went to meet O’Blake at the American State Department for nothing  ?)

 We saw  unilateral  action taken by America against Cuba in 1961 with the failed  Bay of Pigs Invasion. Another  one of the CIA operations. It tried  to use  these same tactics  again in  Tiamenan in China, but failed.  All that, while the UNO which had been set up to settle conflicts between Nations stood helplessly inactive.

 America was out to rid the  developing Nations with their forward looking  progressive National leaders.  as  far back as in 1950s.  Jacobo Arbenz  President of Guatamala, and Mossadegh the Prime Linister of Iran were ousted by CIA Operations.

 The powerful Nations are again back on their  “war path” against developing Nations.

 All the while  these nefarious activities of American CIA were going on, UNO  remained   a silent observer ?

 UNO has become an Organisation of inaction, the Secretary General merely parroting the words of the  powerful nations.  The rich Member States  disregarding  the UNO continue to create chaos in  smaller  Member States.  UNO wakes up only when the powerful Nations accuses a developing Nation,   not to defend it, but to join with the powerful nations to accuse the developing nation in its turn.

 Sri Lanka is a case study of the powerful states moves to break up developing countries and  use them for their political end.  Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, is a country with a high percentage of literacy and a  skilful population. It has all the potentials to rise above its underdevelopment to become a self sufficient Nation. It  would be able to stand proudly along with the Nations  of the rest of the world despite its “size”, and contribute for the peace and development of the World.

 Unfortunately, to-day the Western Powers have become  dangerous “ terrorists” against the developing countries. In Sri Lanka while the terrorists openly declared their intention to break up the  country to set up  an Eelam State, the Western Nations  carry out undercover operations  for the same purpose.  

 Sri Lanka’s  development was hampered by a group of terrorists that had been trained by the RAW of the Indian Government and sent to Sri Lanka in the early 1980s.  This band of terrorists continued a campaign of terror  assassinating all their opponents, and government officials.  They were financially assisted by a large expatriate Tamil community .  With the funds provided   by the expatriate Tamils the terrorists built a strong armed force.

 They were helped by a former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka with a CFA which enabled them to strengthen their military capabilities.  These terrorists were utilised by  an interested group of Western Countries such as the USA, UK, France, Germany, and  Canada, with Norway as their “anchor man” to be in secret contact with the terrorists.

 Their object was to use the LTTE terrorists to break up Sri Lanka and use its  strategic position for their political leadership, and use it as a barrier against China and Russia.  With that objective they manoeuvred from the beginning to discourage the military operations against the terrorists by the Sri Lanka Government, insisting that the government should negotiate for a political settlement.

 The terrorists became more  ruthless massacring  innocent people and assassinating  politicians .  They were finally banned as a terrorist organisation in 33 countries around the world.  Despite the terrorists of Sri Lanka being  band , the USA and the European Countries, secretly assisted the terrorists to continue terrorism, to arrive at their  object of breaking up Sri Lanka following their new policy  of Balkanisation as another form of colonization to keep the poor nations poor, and for the powerful nations to lead the world in the  guise of benefactors of developing nations.

 However, the Sri Lanka Armed Forces determined to end  terrorism in Sri Lanka, which had hampered its development for thirty years, conducted a systematic,  disciplined, humane military operations against the terrorists and eliminated  terrorism completely by killing the terrorist leadership in a final military operation on the 19^th May,2009.

 For the first time  a small nation-  that is Sri Lanka, vanquished  terrorism, while the powerful Nations are still embroiled in their attempt to eliminate terrorism they have vowed to do.  But their war against Talibans and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan continues without an end in sight.

 This great feat of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces against  terrorism should have been applauded and Sri Lanka Government and its Armed Forces felicitated  by all peace loving Nations of the  World, and specially by those  intelligent powerful Nations.

 But what happened is the opposite.  The International Community have changed rolls and treat the  Government of Sri Lanka and its armed Forces the terrorists, and  the terrorists and their sympathisers the innocent victims of the Governments military operations against terrorism.

 This hypocrisy of the West the USA, UK, France, Norway and the rest will remain the most heinous political crime against a developing Nation.  On the 11 September, 2001, the world changed. The West took arms against terrorism vowing to fight terrorism any where it exists. But paradoxically  on the 19 May, 2009 the same West,  changed again  vowing  this time to take Sri Lanka Armed Forces that successfully eliminated  ruthless terrorism from its soil,  to a tribunal accused of war crimes !!!

 UNO being what it is, we understand why the President Mahinda Rajapakse preferred to send his Prime Minister to the UNGeneral Assembly. 

 Even then the Secretary General Ban Ki Moon meeting the Prime Minister had  “ underlined the importance of winning the trust and confidence of the population in the North, especially those in the IDP camps, as failure to do so could undermine the prospects for reconciliation”. These  are the  words of  Robert O’Blake, which Ban Ki Moon had shamelessly repeated.

By Charles.S.Perera

 Robert O’Blake US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian and Central Asian Affairs, is not promoting the USA President Barrack Obama’s foreign policies. In the 38 minutes long speech to the UN General Assembly the USA President made significant statements. But O’Blake is making a mockery of President Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly in his all out effort to discredit Sri Lanka for eliminate the whole lot of his terrorists friends.

 President Obama said, “I took office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust. Part of this was due to misperceptions and misinformation about my country. Part of this was due to opposition to specific policies, and a belief that on certain critical issues, America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, which too often has served as an excuse for collective inaction.”

 But his speech to the UN General Assembly is contradicted by his own Assistant Secretary of State for Asia Robert O’Blake , who comes from the Bush Administration ,which as the US President said was viewed with scepticism and distrust, and has not changed in keeping with the President Obama’s above statement to which he added that, “ the time has come for the world to move in a new direction”.

 O’Blake still carries out the foreign policies of pre-Obama Administration that the President Obama says , “….. has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, which too often has served as an excuse for collective inaction “.

 O’Blake was a sympathiser of the Sri Lanka terrorists, therefore despite the President Barrack Obama’s efforts to change America’s unpopular image, O’Blake leaving aside President Obama’s hope to move in a new direction, continues his vendetta against Sri Lanka for the elimination of his friends the Sri Lanka terrorists.

 For it is now known that the terrorist leader Prabhakaran pushed by the Government Forces into a narrow strip of land between the sea and the Mulaitivu lagoon, was awaiting to be rescued by the American Forces by a commando operation.

 UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, and the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, were trying to negotiate with the Government of Sri Lanka a ceasefire to enable them to enter into the no-fire zone where the terrorists leaders had been cornered , probably to arrange a rescue operation of the terrorist leaders, perhaps in connivance with Robert O’Blake.

 Having failed in that endeavour, the West along with O’Blake is now all out to take revenge from the Government of Sri Lanka by actively moving to accuse the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka for violation of human rights and war crimes.

 O’Blake’s report to the US Congress with damning condemnation of the Government of Sri Lanka, and the European Unions refusal to grant Sri Lanka G+ Concessions for export of garments are the aftermath of this failure on their part to rescue the terrorists as they may probably had secretly promised to do.

 While the US President tells the UN General Assembly, that “America has acted unilaterally, without regard for the interests of others. And this has fed an almost reflexive anti-Americanism, ……. “, O’Blake his Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs” following that blameful tradition acts, “…. Unilaterally without regard for the interest of others” submitting a report based completely on hearsay evidence, to the US Congress against Sri Lanka without giving Sri Lanka its right of being heard before such a critical report is submitted to the US Congress.

 The President Obama said, “ no one nation can or should try to dominate another nation”. But this statement seems to have no significance to Robert O’Blake who had through out his mission as the US Ambassador for Sri Lanka, had denigrated the Government of Sri Lanka criticising her actions even from public rostrums in South India during a determining military operations against terrorists, and continues all possible methods to discredit the Government of Sri Lanka.

 O’Blake now with greater “power” bestowed upon him by the Obama Administration takes Sri Lanka for a vassal state. He consults expatriate Tamils in America some of who have not even put their foot in Sri Lanka for many decades, and well known local anti-Government elements such as Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu and Jehan Perera, about matters concerning Sri Lanka rather than have direct consultations with the leaders of the Government of Sri Lanka.

 The President Obama continuing his speech to the UN General Assembly said , “Now, like all of you, my responsibility is to act in the interest of my nation and my people, and I will never apologize for defending those interests.” Sri Lanka respectfully accepts President Obama’s responsibility to his people. But that responsibility should be the same when it comes to a President of any developing country, even that of Sri Lanka .

 As a corollary to President Obama’s assertion , the right of the President of Sri Lanka to act in the interest of his country and his people cannot also be questioned, and he too need not apologize to any one for defending those interests.

 In the light of seemingly candid statement of President Obama’s speech we question him whether such responsibility is reserved only to America , and whether the President of a developing country has to “ apologize for defending interests of his nation and his people”.

 President Obama’s remarks are respectfully taken note of, but he should, demand his Assistant Secretary of State Robert O’Blake to extend that honourable principles of his in dealing with other Presidents of developing nations-such as Sri Lanka.

 President Obama gives the World of Nations hope when he says, “We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems — it will take persistent action.” But there is a difference with his speech and the actions of his subordinate the Assistant Secretary of State Robert O’Blake, who seems to have not understood President Obama’s policies and principles in dealing with other Sovereign States.

 What Rober O’Blake refuses to understand or does not seem to have understood is that which triumphed in America with the election of an Afro American as the President was the integration of the black minority community into the majority white community.

 Robert Blake is aware that in 1950’ s America still practiced segregation of the black Americans, treating them no better than animals, not allowing them to sit in the same row of seats in buses, not serving them in restaurants reserved for the whites, not allowing black children to walk into a sweet shop to buy sweets. Robert O’Blake is well aware that in America the blacks were lynched, burnt alive or hanged by the notorious Ku Klux Klan merely for their being “black”.

 In that atmosphere of American past notoriety, the election of an Afro American representing the then segregated black Community, as the 44th President of USA was the greatest historically meaningful American triumph .

 Then why should Robert O’Blake the US Assistant Secretary of State for Asian Affairs promote segregation of the minority Tamil Community in Sri Lanka, calling for a political separation of the Tamil Community from the Majority Community.

 If Robert O’Blake has really understood the significance of swearing in of the 44th President of the USA on the memorable 21 January,2009, he would not have given into the unpatriotic Tamil Expatriate Community, to promote ethnic separation in Sri Lanka. He should have instead advised them to encourage the Tamil Community in Sri Lanka to integrate or coordinate with the Majority Sinhala Community to forge a larger United Nation of Sri Lankans, where there would be no separate identities of the minority, and the majority.

 None of the Governments of Sri Lanka, nor the people of the Majority Community –the Sinhala, practiced segregation against the minority Tamil Community as it was practiced by the American Governments and the American White population to the Afro American Community. In that context Robert O’Blake is a “nasty American” promoting ethnic segregation in Sri Lanka.

 Finally the President Obama said, “Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect. Each country will pursue a path rooted in the culture of its people and in its past traditions…….”

 It is important that every one in the American State Department and the Members of the US Congress understand this truth. In this respect what USA and the EU and the rest of the Western Developed countries should realise is that for true democracy to prevail in the world, the rich countries should make a sincere effort to help those countries who need help to rise above their under development.

 Such help should not be made conditional, making those countries subordinate their Sovereignty to the donors, but allow them to develop their countries independently according to their own “culture and past traditions”.

 The now common practice of America and the European Union withholding aid and assistance or imposing trade embargo amounts to “black mailing “those developing Nations and halting their development. The rich countries should be intelligent enough to treat separately their aid and assistance to developing countries, and settlement of disputes and disagreements through dialogue. The latter should not be a barrier to promote the former.

 We fervently hope that the US President Barrack Obama will not fail to convert his words to reality with persistent action, as he said, “We know the future will be forged by deeds and not simply words. Speeches alone will not solve our problems — it will take persistent action.” Those persistent actions should not be to the benefit of America, and its friendly European States but to all Nations of the world without distinction.

By Charles.S.Perera

 During the period that Sri Lanka was constantly menaced by a ruthless group of terrorists causing wanton massacres, murders, and assassinations, Sri Lanka was all alone to defend herself. The International Community stood by a mere observer calling the government to negotiate a peace settlement, while the terrorists were of one track mind for the creation of a Tamil Eelam, making a sham of negotiations.

 The Government could not possibly negotiate with a ruthless group of terrorists to come to a settlement to give a part of its territory for them to set up an Eelam. But the International Community apparently worked for that end demanding the Government to come to a peace settlement at what ever cost, even if it were to allow the terrorists to set up their Eelam State.

 It is quite evident now that the latter motive seems to have been what, Robert Blake , David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner , the EU, and the rest of the International Community wanted. A divided Sri Lanka would have been easy for them to move in their battle ships, protective armies and what not to be in readiness to check the advance of Russian and Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.

 India too may have envisaged such an aftermath as the Chinese influence in Sri Lanka has become an eyesore for India. India, offended with the visit of the South Korean Navy to Trincomalee, may have threatened Sri Lanka with dire consequences if Pakistan, Chinese or American Navies are invited to Trincomalee.

 India is becoming a greater menace to Sri Lanka’s peace and independence more than were the terrorists . Against the terrorists we used our Armed Forces, but could we turn our guns against the hypocrisy of India ?

 In this situation the reason of the ambivalence of the International Community, setting up a double standard on terrorism as “ their terrorism “, to be eliminated without negotiations, and “terrorism of others “, to be settled by entering into negotiations with terrorists for a political settlement, is now made obvious, after the government of Sri Lanka without their aid, eliminated terrorism from Sri Lanka. The West is all out to divide our country, which had shown its ability to rise above underdevelopment to do more than the developed West had been able to do.

 Robert Blake the American Assistant under Secretary of State for Asia, is now attempting to reactivate his failed secret attempts through out his mission in Sri Lanka as the US Ambassador to allow the terrorists to set up a separate Eelam State, by conniving with the Tamil Expatriates, the local traitors such as Jehan Perera, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu, Ranil Wickramasinghe and his echo Lakshman Kiriella née Perera and a lot of them.

 In order to face this offensive and thwart the dastardly intentions of the offenders, the International Community led by Blake of USA, and India, all Communities in Sri Lanka have to unite behind the government.

 Unfortunately the Tamil Community which is the greater benefactor from the elimination of terrorism from the North and the East are still half hearted in their support of the Government of President Mahinda Rajapakse.

 Despite the restructuration of the North and East and bringing in vast development projects for the benefit of the Tamil Community, the hearts of the Tamil people do not seem to have expanded in gratitude to the government. The so called devolution of power would not have given the Tamil Community so much of benefits, that they already enjoying, with more promising a future in their sight.

 The IDPs whine and complain to every visiting “representatives “ of the West , their lack of freedom of movement, desire to move out to their villages, forgetting the immense difficulties they under went under the jackboot of terrorism.

 The Government, would certainly like to close down the camps and send the refugees to their homes as maintaining them in the refugee camps is costing as much as 9 million Rupees a day to the government.

 The government is not keeping the IDPs in the camps either for its pleasure , or to take revenge from them. The government is considering the security of the IDPs themselves, and the security of the country as a whole, as all precautions have to be taken to avoid any form of reactivation of terrorism by those “former” terrorists who may still be languishing in the camps.

 In the meantime there are those foreign elements who are waiting for a chance to create an atmosphere of fear in the IDP camps and make terrorism raise its head once again. Such a situation would help the West in their attempt to discredit the Government, and help the “non-patriotic Tamil expatriates” to contribute for activities of terror in Sri Lanka to eventually demand a Tamil Homeland..

 Therefore, the time has come for the Tamil Community in Sri Lanka to become real patriots of the land they claim to be their motherland, and contribute to defend it against those foreign seemingly “do gooders “ from hindering the progress of the country, its development and the unity of the Communities.

 The President has said in no uncertain terms that Sri Lanka has no minorities and that we are all One people of the same motherland. Why cannot the Tamils react to that generosity of a great President a like of whom we will not see for a long time after him ?

 The Tamil Community of Sri Lanka should actively demonstrate their patriotism to the motherland. They should also decide either to trust the Sinhala people and develop a cordial relationship with them or continue a hypocritical pretence of acceptance while continuing to hate them for their being the majority community.

 Best alternative open to the Tamils is to accept the Sinhala as their compatriots, and cooperate with them to make Sri Lanka a better place for all Communities to live together in peace and harmony. Few Tamils are willing to break through their narrow communal barriers to accept the other Communities heart and soul.

 In that respect we remember with gratitude the late Rajini Thiranagama as an example of a Tamil woman seeking to unite communities, who was assassinated for that heroic attempt by the most ruthless terrorists. The other names that come to mind are those of late Lakshman Kadirgamar, or again late Jeyaraj Fernandopulle. Two of them were also assassinated by the terrorists. How could the Tamil Community have even a shadow of a sympathy for these ruthless vampires of terrorism, or their selfish desire to setup a Tamil Homeland ?

 Patriotism is not only being born into a Country. Patriotism is not claiming recognition of the difference of one community over the other. Patriotism is in accepting the whole country as it is with a close affinity to every one living in it without distinction of colour, religion, language, and ethnicity.

 Patriotism is also the willingness to defend the unitary state of the country and the unity of its people at the risk of ones own life. The Tamil people in Sri Lanka should consider this seriously , and ask themselves to what extent they have contributed to this essence of patriotism to their motherland.

 We have kinship with our own compatriots because we , or our fathers, and forefathers were all born in this glorious land of ours and were brought up in it. We may speak different languages, worship different Gods, wear different dresses or eat different food , but we are a part of the Sri Lankan Nation-children of the same motherland.

 The Tamil people have so far remained silent through fear of retribution by the terrorists. Now that danger has been eliminated, the time has come for the Tamil people to speak out and defend the country against the perils that come from the West.

 We cannot have any affinity or devotion to another country or another people in another place because the people in those countries or places speak the same language and worship the same god. Because we being the patriotic children of our own motherland Sri Lanka, our undivided devotion and attachment is to Sri Lanka and to no other country or place.

 Hence, any one unwilling to concede to the President, who brought peace to this motherland of ours after thirty long years of suffering, respect and recognition due to him are not true patriots. Because heroes are rare, and a dedicated leader of the people is rarer.

 To-day the President Mahinda Rajapakse Stands out as the National Leader who delivered the people of Sri Lanka from thirty years of suffering brought about by a ruthless group of terrorists.

 President Mahinda Rajapakse made Sri Lanka the only developing country in the world that was able to fight single handed and eliminate a group of ruthless terrorists who had been well armed through the financial support accorded to them by a large expatriate Tamil Community. They were well organised and were thought to be invincible. The developed countries with their most modern war machines have failed to do as much as Sri Lanka, and they are not even closer to eliminate the terrorists they have been fighting against for years.

 It is in a way the jealousy that makes the West take all measures to accuse the Government of Sri Lanka for violation of human rights, and for war crimes. It is to discredit the Government of Sri Lanka so that it will not take away the lime light from the mighty white West.

By Charles.S.Perera

We can face the hypocrisy of the West , evidently led by the British and now the Assistant Secretary of State of USA Robert Blake, to undermine the development of our country and break it up territorially if possible, and come off unscathed only if all Sri Lankans are united behind the government,

 It is not difficult to do if political division in our country is not made the instrument to strengthen personal ambitions.

 But unfortunately each one of the opposition political parties, has its own axe to grind. And opposition to the President, and his government have been made the spring board to achieve their political ambitions. Take for instance the UNP. The UNP is determined to discredit the government, and make it unpopular for the only reason, that it hopes the fall of the government would bring it back to power and Ranil Wickramasinghe could be made the next President.

 Then we have Mangala Samaraweera , a man with a heart full of hatred who cannot offer love and affection to the people and the country. He has no political backing, but nevertheless, is doing his best to put the people and political parties against the President to take vengeance, for his removal from the Ministerial post in the government, making him a political vagabond.

 It is really pathetic with the JVP which had every chance to become an important political party. But it is today without any political space to place its foot. JVP is manoeuvring with all types of gimmicks, trade union action and creating unrest in universities, to discredit the government of the President hoping to form a government of its own at the next general election.

 The JVP in its blind stupidity became traitors to the people of the country voting against the extension of the state of emergency. The State of emergency is a security measure to protect the people from any dangerous situation that could be created by terrorist that may still be lying low as “sleepers” awaiting for an opportunity to cause terror by setting up suicide bombs . Now Anura Dissanayake, Lal Kantha, Tilvin Silva, Herath are going round spraying poison of hatred, which will poison themselves rather than the President or his Government.

 Rauf Hakeem is the most unreliable political nonentity, he perhaps hopes to become the next Prime Minister in case Ranil Wickramasinghe is elected the President. Mano Ganeshan, is basically a terrorist supporter and a rabble rouser, who hopes to bring the Tamils of Sri Lanka and those of Tamil Nadu to set up a Tamil Homeland. Mano Ganeshan is not a patriot, he is there to break up Sri Lanka and cause dissention.

 If these persons could work for the country and its people instead of trying to fulfil their own personal ambitions, Sri Lanka could certainly become a developed nation of the world despite the barriers that are being put on its path by the West. Sri Lanka has the potential for development, what it lacks is unity and a greater sense of patriotism to make our country rise above poverty and develop into economic significance.

 The preoccupation of the opposition parties in Sri Lanka today is not to help the President who has achieved so much for the country risking his own life without seeking personal gain. He is being accused for giving places of importance to members of his family. Any person who looks at the situation as it was when he was elected as the President, will understand , that what he needed most at the time to fulfil his determination to end terrorism was to have around him people whom he could trust.

 In that situation who else could he have trusted more than his own brothers. We see in Mangala Samaraweera, who has turned out to be a bitter enemy of the President today, that he could not have been a man of trust and confidence as a friend,

 Every Sri Lankan worthy of being a citizen of this great country, owes so much to the President and his brothers for delivering us from terrorism, which had been the greatest evil that stopped Sri Lanka from progress and development. The President had the sixth sense at the moment of need to select people to be around him who would stand by him to carry on the administration of the government while terrorism is being gradually eliminated by the Armed Forces.

 Those who had crossed over from the UNP understood the value of the man who had been elected by the people to lead the country. They new, that it was he who could give the country the correct leadership.

 It is time now for the politicians to forget their differences and stand by the government. The Tamil people had never been deprived of their rights . The Tamil Community had been treated equally by the respective governments, and more so by the President Mahinda Rajapakse and his government.

 It is the Tamil Politicians and the Tamil expatriates for their own personal benefit that continue to create an ethnic difference. There had been incidents involving the Tamils , the Muslims and the Sinhala. Those incidents cannot be continuously harped on to keep alive a non existent ethnic difference. The President and the Government should not, to satisfy the interfering International Community or the selfish Tamil politicians, sacrifice the rights of the Sinhala Community.

 The ordinary people that count in the long run understand that the President and the Government had done their part for the benefit of the country and its people. Therefore, the opposition parties if they wish to have the support of the people at a future election, should rally round the government now to let the government carry out further progressive development for the benefit of the people and the country. The people will then recognise the opposition political parties as genuinely interested in the country and not seeking narrow personal benefits, by being critical of the government.

 The International Community led by the former American Ambassador Robert Blake is joining with the pro terrorist expatriate Tamils who have no genuine interest in Sri Lanka other than to stop progressive development, and break it up to form a Tamil homeland. The only way to stop this dangerous manoeuvre is for all Sri Lankans to unite, behind the elected President and the Government.

By Charles.S.Perera

Time has come to expose the hypocrisy of the West- America, and the European Union, and find an alternative leadership  with China, Russia, Iran,  Libya and Vietnam.  Unfortunately, India’s leadership in Asia  is hampered by Tamil Nadu State with its racist politicians.

 The respect, high expectation of  justice and fair play,  and the awe with which  the Western Nations were looked up to by the  developing countries some of which were their former colonies have completely eroded.  The Western Nation States, with their Human Rights watch, Amnesty International, UK Channel 4, and  Western Officials of the UN System, have  become for the developing world a bunch of untrustworthy,  dishonest, scoundrels making a mockery of democracy of which they are supposed to be the inventers.

 The Western Nation States are today  hiding their nudity of  the lack  propriety of  behaviour, and exemplary quality of  fair judgement with  the proverbial fig leaf of  competitive  technology and a declining  prosperity.  Their hypocrisy came to light in their deplorable attempt to keep alive a ruthless terrorism in a developing country-Sri Lanka namely, when they had vowed to fight terrorism any where in the world.  They showed that they are unprincipled to the hilt and double tongued in their dealings with the world of nations other than those of their own.

 They were out to divide Sri Lanka ethnically, territorially for the  only reason of making it  a divided poor dependent nation a protectorate of the West to make of it a strategic  military out post to keep in check  China, Russia and India, the rising new Nation of  Asia.  They manipulated to  breakup the USSR, only  to make Russia a powerful Nation.  They intervened in the student riots of  China in Tiananmen to hold back the development of  China, only to make of it an economic giant in Asia.

 In this respect,  the American Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake,  holding discussions with several expatriate Tamil Associations which were the front organisations of the terrorists of Sri Lanka,  is a valid proof of Western dishonesty and political hypocrisy. The President Barack Obama if he does not put Robert Blake in his place  will soon lose  his popularity among the developing nations.

 In the meantime the European Union has decided  to withhold the GSP+ award for Sri Lanka apparel industry, confirming a concerted effort by the International Community to take revenge from Sri Lanka for the defeat of terrorism, which can also be seen as a  part of  the Western policy of keeping the developing nations poor.

 Any excuse is enough for the Western Nation States to bar the economic progress of  the countries of the  third world.   The excuse the  EU gives for this blatant economical strangulation of Sri Lanka is that it has violated human rights.  That is a flimsy excuse, compared to the enormity of the accomplished tasks of the Government and its Armed Forces to eliminate  terrorism from the country, rescuing from the grip of terrorism , accommodating, feeding, taking care of, and  providing security to 200,000 Tamil Civil population, until their villages are  being prepared for their permanent settlement.  

 Sweden too has  withdrawn its diplomatic Mission  as a further attempt to weaken Sri Lanka and discredit  the government. Milliband, Eric Solheim, and Kouchner perhaps contribute to accumulate  evidence  against Sri Lanka interposing   Chanel 4 TV of UK to do their dirty work.

 Under these circumstances the President Mahinda Rajapakse should be applauded for his  seeking to establish  diplomatic ties with the countries of the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, such as Libya, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco , Syria, Vietnam, and Kenya.  We had so far been seeking diplomatic contact with the high and mighty Western Nation States, but they have failed to respect the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka for what it is , seeking to divide and create internal dissention using the expatriate elements as pawns.

 We of the third world have to know who our real friends are,  as Kipling had said “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” , and there will always be  underhand manoeuvres by the Western Nation States to keep the  developing countries their  dependent satellite states, without accepting them as equals.

 The West had always sought to remain the leading Nations, without giving a chance for any one else to take their place.  That was how they controlled the world, keeping the poor always poor.

 At a G8  Summit Conference in London late Francois Mitterand the Socialist President of France  stressed the necessity  for the Nations of the North to develop those of the South.  His argument was, that the development of the South will also solve some of the political problems of the North.  The immigrants from less developed countries will   stop migrating to the rich North if their countries are developed to provide them with a respectable standard of living. 

 But the rich West  paid scant attention to Mr. Francois Mitterand’s plea.  The Western States do not want to help the South. If they are genuinely interested in the poor  of the South they would not dump excess harvest of American wheat in the sea, and pay the wheat cultivators to keep their fields barren, in order to maintain the  wheat  price high.

 The West set up the  World Bank and the International  Monetary Fund, and gave  loans to developing countries on their conditions.  Their conditions were set out to enable the countries to pay back the interests on the loans, without getting involved with development programmes that would hamper the repayment of their debts.  No  third world country was able to develop according to their system of granting loans. It was another means of strangulation of the poor,  putting them in to a “debt trap”  set by the rich West.

 The Western States, if they disagreed with a political system of a country, would invaded that country setting up  one of their puppets in power as it happened in Grenada, or in Chilli.  If not they set up commercial embargos putting the countries in greater difficulty, like the trade embargo on Cuba.

 In Iraq before the  “scandalous war” of the Bush Administration, the West declared an embargo against Iraq which resulted in thousands of children, old men and women dying  due to lack of  medicine resulting from the  inhuman  embargo on trade and medicine.  Even the UN participated in economic sanctions against Iraq  way back in 1990.

 The Western States defend their own comfort and wellbeing at the cost of the lives of the  poor people of the developing countries. And they dare accuse Sri Lanka for violation of human rights, because Sri Lanka eliminated terrorism and rescued 200,000 Tamil civilians from the grip of the terrorists. The  ensuing problems are human problems that any country in such a situation would have to face,. This the Western Nation States, interposed by the Human Rights Activists, Amnesty International and the UN System officials, do not seem to understand, or do not want to understand.

 The Western States are rich because of their conquests and colonisation of the third world countries.  They have become rich and dominant,  technically advanced, all because of their plundering  of the poor Nations, mining their mineral wealth, exploiting their labour, and their countries in various ways.  Despite this the West has refused to give the developing countries the essentials of  technological know how, merely handing out repayable loans.

 It is time that the hypocrisy of the West is exposed.   It is time that the abhorrence of the West by all developing Countries, though still not openly manifested, is made evident. The trend set by Sri Lanka,  to maintain and extend its diplomatic ties  with  more friendly  countries like  China, Russia, Iran, Israel, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Vietnam, Korea, Kenya,  is commendable. It is a  great step taken in the correct direction.  India’s leadership in Asia is hampered by the Tamil Nadu State.   Tamil Nadu,  with its  jokers of racist politicians like  Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha, Vaiko,  and the rest, is a barrier for India to be accepted as a true leader in Asia.

 Sri Lanka should keep the  developing countries  informed of the Western hypocrisy,  in its apparent  animosity towards  Sri Lanka ever since it eliminated a group  of  ruthless terrorists.  And form a block which recognises the leader ship of the countries like China, Russia, Iran, Libya etc., as an alternative to the West-the West  which we had once  respected, of which we had high expectation of  justice and fair play,  and the awe with which  we had once  looked up to it.

By Charles.S.Perera

Freedom has to be exercised with caution.  Just because one is allowed to use one’s freedom, it should not be utilised for the detriment, or cause harm to another.  Freedom could lead to allsorts of abuses. It would be like giving a torch to a monkey. It could set  a whole forest on fire.  It is the same with the freedom of  the media.

 But the media which has set up its own Federation, makes it jump to uphold the right of the media at the mere  drop of a “pin”. They do not take time  even to investigate whether they are  defending a just cause.  In Sri Lanka it has become a bit of a joke to see the federation of the Press make a vociferous entry in to the scene  blowing all their “bugles” the moment a media man is involved in what ever matter, without considering whether the cause deserves its  support.

 As much as a Government may be considered over reaching its power to suppress  the activities of the media, the media could also be accused for  abusing the freedom allowed to it. Freedom is a sword that  cuts both ways, and there for the media cannot always claim “immunity” under  freedom of the media in a democratic system.  It is not the media that sets up the rules, and dictates to governments. It is a government that sets up rules, and demands the media to uphold the  rules of law.

 During the World War I many Americans of German Origin were imprisoned. One man was even  hanged for being of German descent,  and the killers were found not guilty as it was considered an act of patriotism. What Christian Justice ? In Europe  news concerning the war was subjected to strict censure.  Then neither  a human rights watch in the former case, nor a Federation of the Press in the second, could have intervened to demand the governments to release the detainees, nor to  withdraw the censures.  

 Sri Lanka is a very smart developing Sovereign State,  which foiled the attempt of a ruthless terrorist group to divide the country to set up a Homeland.   The terrorism has been eliminated but the “goons” who lived on terrorism are still at large.   Therefore the  government has to take all precautions to avoid  a possible  re-ignition of  the past terror. 

 Therefore, an International Federation of the Press, if lead by responsible, intelligent leadership, should not burn its fingers by supporting what it should not support.  To do so would be immoral, as a  secure and a protective governance  avoiding  danger to its citizen is the primary responsibility of a Government.  If the government were to take into custody a wrong doer, and its courts of law passes judgement, it  has to be respected by any Federation  worthy of its name.

 Some Media Institutions  of Sri Lanka is  the worst for the abuse of the press freedom.  But the International Community  with its favourable attitude towards the Sri Lanka terrorists, have ever since the Government of Sri Lanka eliminated  terrorism killing all the terrorists, have taken cudgels against the Government.

 And now their agents the  Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, UNHuman Rights Commission, and the International Federation of the Press etc. make a habit of  popping  up,  to make accusations against the government, when ever the government of Sri Lanka takes any action to punish those  who supported the  terrorists, or  take precautionary measures  to prevent any possible  repetition of those past events.

 Utter abuse of media freedom is seen in the British  Channel 4 TV.  It is a shame that the Government of  UK with its well known English Justice and Fair play, do not warn the  miscreants to stop this misuse of the media freedom.  This most objectionably dastard acts of  Channel 4 are understandable as England is not what it was, with people like Milliband, who was trying his best  not to leave any stone upturned in his effort to save the terrorist leaders during the last phase of the military operations against terrorists, warming the Chair of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

 Channel 4 well known for its fabrication of false news items, still smarting from the unceremonious packing away from Sri Lanka, has decided to go far to discredit the government.  It was on another false story  that Channel 4 was trying to concoct to discredit the Government, by accusing the Army Soldiers  for rape, and murder. Having failed to make an impact on that, they  “doctored” photos this time.

 If these are considered  Freedom of the Media, which the International Federation of the Press has come forward to defend, woe be to democracy, and woe be to the Christian  civilization  the West so tenaciously uphold.

By Charles.S.Perera

Election results of Jaffna and Vavunia in the Northern Provincial Council  were regrettable.  It showed a complete disregard for the  Government’s effort, at a terrible cost of human lives and loss of material, to relieve the Tamil people of the North from  the 30 years of terrorism and bring peace and prosperity to them. 

 The government continues to develop the North  in all fronts to provide the Tamil people of the North a better living condition hitherto deprived, because of the virulence of terrorism.  No one of the Sinhala Community has questioned the government’s continued effort to provide the best possible relief for the Tamil people of the North.

 But yet it appears the Tamil Community of the North prefer the suffering under terrorism rather than to live well in peace and prosperity under a generous National Government,  which demands  nothing other than  a communal unity to build a new Nation of Sri Lankans.

 During terrorism and now  nearly three months after the elimination of terrorism from the soil of Sri Lanka, no Tamil voice had been heard speaking of  Unity or an expressions of  willingness to work together with the other Communities  to help the Government in its development projects.  But on the other hand,  there had been no lack of voices of hatred condemning the government and the Sinhala people .  There is nothing new in this Tamil hatred, with an undercurrent of  a hypocritical show of acceptance. 

 There was a time when the Lanka Sama Samaja Party lead by N.M.Perera called for Unity of all Communities and contested elections  calling for equal rights for all Sri Lankans.   Even then Jaffna elected only one LSSP candidate, showing even then their unwillingness to cooperate with any one outside their Communal identity.

 The Sinhala mothers willingly allowed their sons to be sent to the jaws of the terrorists wolves to fight and defeat them to save the thousands of  Tamil compatriots who were suffering under the jack boot of terrorism.   How many young  Sinhala youth died in this war to save the Tamil civil population, and prevent the country from being divided  to set up a fascist regime by the  ruthless savage  terrorists?

 Sri Lanka Sinhala Community is not vindictive, they cannot be blamed today for  what happened before. Often repeated riots of  1983  was also begun by the terrorists, and it went against their own people. In any such situation there are certain elements  who either for profit  or through uncontrolled emotions react without seeking to understand the reality.  The actions of such elements should not be allowed to sully  a whole Community.

 That was the past, but thereafter the  Sinhala people did not allow themselves to be moved to take  revenge  from Tamils in the face of numerous atrocities committed by the terrorists against  the  innocent young and old Sinhala people of the border villages,  or for  numerous assassinations of the  political leaders.  

 The Tamils who keep on blaming for what happened in 1983, are not willing to pay tribute to the patience and wisdom of the Sinhala people for not reacting to those subsequent events to go on a rampage of killing as it was in 1983  to take revenge from the innocent Tamils. It is human  to show anger and condemn when atrocities have been   committed against a Community,  but it is also human to praise  and be thankful  when a Community  protects and takes care of other Communities.  But Tamil Community has failed to display that natural human reaction, for what was positive and praiseworthy..

 There is no reason for the Tamil  Community to dislike the Sinhala. Sinhala people do not harbour any grudge or hatred towards the Tamil.  In that situation why is this animosity of the Tamils towards the Sinhala.  It could perhaps be accepted from less educated, but to see even the educated Tamils like Kumar David, Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu or Narapalasinghams having the same reaction of the less educated is difficult to understand. 

 It appears this dislike for the Sinhala comes from the fact that the Sinhala are the majority.  Being in the minority, they take  the Sinhala being the majority as an affront to their Tamilness.  Hence, the desire of the Tamils to set up a homeland where they would be in  the majority, or ask for more devolution of political power so that they will be equal to the Sinhala, if not in numbers, at least in political power.

 The Sinhala, perhaps because they are the majority do not willingly flaunt the fact of their being the majority.  It is only the Tamils who seem  to be unable to forget the fact of the Sinhala being the majority.  The Sinhala do not wait others to  come forward to join them to defend the country,  or  the  Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim Communities when they are in danger.   In the war against the terrorists, no Tamils came forward to  fight   terrorism along side the Sri Lanka army . But they would rather fight along with the terrorists or secretly expected them to win.

 Therefore, one wanders where lies the allegiance of the Tamils.  It is time that the Tamil intelligentsia make a re-evaluation of their fact of being citizens of Sri Lanka along with the Sinhala and the Muslims, and change their attitude to accept their motherland with all that  it contains,  including the Sinhala and the Muslim Communities, and become a part of the same motherland.

 In that respect the proposal to have Political Parties with out ethnic reference was a good move, but again the Tamils have spoken against it  for no other reason, perhaps other than to be separate from the Sinhala, maintaining their identity intact.