Utter Hypocrisy of “The
Humanitarian & Democratic” Western World
By Darmitha-Kotte
The yardstick used to judge terrorism in the west, does not seem to
be the same when it is terrorism in Asian countries like Sri Lanka-
how come? No matter where terrorism is leashed out, the results are
brutality and cold-blooded murder in the worst sense-isn’t it?
Before the Presidential Elections in Sri Lanka on 17th November 2005,
we saw full page advertisements in the English, Sinhala & Tamil
newspapers in this country, where non other than the Rev. Oswild Gomis
Archbishop of the Catholic Church in collaboration with “SOLO-U”
and Lalith Kothelawela sending warning messages to Christians in their
message “ Christians Awake!” in which they spelt out in no
uncertain terms, that Christian voters must not vote for Mr. Mahinda
Rajapakse. Why? Is it because Mr. Rajapakse was not qualified to become
our next President, or was it because it would be so much easier for
them to have their own way with Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe, who has exhibited
his servile willingness to oblige anyone/country who wishes to destroy
this country- in the name & game of “humanitarianism”
& “democracy?” The latter is closer to the truth!
Is there any difference between the terrorism leashed out by the Catholic
Church through the famous “Inquisitions” of by-gone eras,
the current US operations in Iraq against Sadam Hussein in his own country(in
the US quest to destroy Sadam, they have leashed out terror on an entire
nation!), the US attempts against the Al Queda movement which “dared
to pinch” US arrogance, the US operations in Afghanistan against
the Afghans, AND the LTTE atrocities against firstly, their own Tamil
bretheren in the North & East and against the armed forces of a
democratically elected sovereign state called Sri Lanka? To us, they
all have one motive – that is cold-blooded murder of the innocent
to achieve their morbid objectives! It is no secret at all, that the
Catholic Church has been nurturing and conspiring together with the
LTTE to destroy the cultural heritage of our country for over 2 decades.
When the LTTE split into two factions with Karuna waging war on Prabhakaran
there were 6 Catholic Bishops from Chilaw / Puttalam who rushed to Wanni
to see whether they could establish peace between the two factions.
When the blood-thirsty Prabhakaran wanted to visit Norway, it was the
Norwegian Monitoring Mission that helped “a murderer” to leave
Sri Lanka without the express permission of her democratically elected
government disguised as a Catholic Father, to enable him to pass through
Maldivian Immigration authorities. The Norwegian Lutheran Church will
naturally champion the cause of a terrorist organization backed by western
Christian support! Why would the west want to protect a Sri Lankan murderer
while at the same time, the same west is hounding Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
to capture Bin Laden-the leader of the Al Queda movement?
In the “Expose: The Christian Mafia” written by Wayne Madison
he does an indepth study of how the Christian Churches whether they
are evangelical or Catholic, wield their way through governments of
different countries into commanding positions in order to achieve their
ulterior motives. The US under George Bush(Jnr) is acting only on the
directives of the Church to destroy legitimate cultural & religious
roots of other nations. We see this quite evidently in the manner he
has conducted himself since becoming President of the US. Like the late
J.R.Jayawardane (our first Executive President) who used words like
“Darmishta Samajayak” so does George Bush and Tony Blair use
“ Democracy” and “Humanitarian” to dupe the innocent
countries of the developing world! In the name of
“ Democracy and Humanitarian”- western powers can invade
a sovereign state and capture their leaders, torture & insult them,
dictate terms of how to govern their own independent countries!
In Sri Lanka we see that after Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse was elected our
5th Executive President, different waves of Christian groups making
their way into this country in the same name of “Democracy &
Humanitarian, ” to put pressure on the new government because they
fear that our President with the backing of the JHU and JVP will be
a threat to the Christian Churches and their agendas! The head of The
Catholic Church the Rev. Oswild Gomis who openly opposed Mr. Mahinda
Rajapakse’s candidacy for the Presidency, no sooner than he was
elected, organized the Catholic Bishop’s Conference to meet the
newly elected President- to express their wish to support and cooperate
with him. This same Archbishop, organized to invite the Head of the
Catholic Church of Britain Cardinal Mc Cormac Murphy O’Connor and
meet Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse to make amends for his own debacle before
the elections! The Cardinal also represents CAFOD(Catholic Agency for
Overseas Development) and offered 4.3 million Sterling Pounds for construction
of houses in the Tsunami affected areas of Batticaloa, Galle, Matara
and Jaffna Districts. The funds unfortunately will not be given to the
Government of Sri Lanka but to CARITAS for them to use funds for construction
and conversions of Hindus and Buddhists- the carrot stick is “housing!”
One of the main topics of discussion was the Ceasefire Agreement with
the LTTE. The Cardinal also stated that “it would be useful for
the Catholic and Buddhist clergy to stand together in the demand for
peace”(Daily Mirror-3rd Jan.2005). In the same article it states
that The Cardinal had given an assurance “ that fund raising activities
of the LTTE in Britain would also be addressed…… “ How
wonderful! Why have they not done this for 30 years is a good question
to ask?
Why has the Catholic Church of Sri Lanka stood together with the Buddhist
Clergy upto now, in our quest for peace in this country? The obvious,
is that there is no sincerity in the Catholic Church for the welfare
of the entire nation. If the Catholic Church is sincere, they would
stop supporting the LTTE movement in Sri Lanka, they would prevail upon
the terrorists to stop their atrocities against the majority Tamil community
in the North, they would prevail upon the terrorists to stop abducting
children to become human shields and suicide bombers. Prabhakaran the
murderer and child abductor, has ensured that his own children are studying
abroad, sitting for examinations in this country under special security-
while he kidnaps the children of other Tamil parents to destroy their
education and future!
We now hear that a proposed delegation of Americans on “Religious
Freedom” will be visiting Sri Lanka in the very near future- for
what? Sri Lanka has enjoyed freedom of religion for centuries in this
country & that freedom has been jeopardized by insensitive Evangelical
onslaughts on our indigenous culture and religion. Most of them have
been coming from American Churches to hurt our religious identity &
our own freedom. Many more “good-will delegations” will visit
Sri Lanka in the near future-all wishing to sell their agendas to President
Rajapakse before it is too late!
One thing that these western groups all fear, is that Mr. Mahinda
Rajapakse might keep his backbone straight and do what is right for
Sri Lanka! They fear that if he progresses with his “ Mahinda Chinthanaya”
and succeeds in establishing the rightful place of Sinhala Buddhists
& the majority Tamil community as against the terrorists- then their
false agendas of “Democracy “ and “Humanitarian”
conspiracies will have no place on our soil, therefore they have to
act fast to establish their “ Christian Mafia” operations
with the current government in power! They had succeeded beautifully
with the previous government of Chandrika Kumaratunga and Ranil Wickramasinghe
& they must surely ensure that they succeed with President Rajapaske
as well.
At this point, we need to ask the blaring question from western powers
“ Do you sincerely want peace in this world?” If it is an
emphatic “Yes” – then we may ask you “ why don’t
you close down your arms manufacturing operations in your own countries?”
This is the most lucrative business in the world & countries that
are producing weapons thrive by fanning dissention in developing countries
to sell their weapons to us- is that not the naked truth that you wish
to hide under words like “Democracy” and “Humanitarian”
to deceive us? Was it because of humanitarianism that Hiroshima was
bombed, Vietnam was bombed with chemical weapons (all these which exhibit
horrors left on human beings and seen even today), Burma is facing foreign
manipulations, the Kuwaiti-Iraqi war was orchestrated, the war in Afghanistan
is perpetuated, the current faked attack on Iraqis & Sadam Hussein
is being conducted, feuds are encouraged in the African continent, the
cold-war between North & South Korea has been encouraged, the cold-war
between Taiwan and The People’s Republic of China has been encouraged,
the cold-war between the Koreas & Japan has been encouraged and
the LTTE demand for a “traditional homeland myth” has been
encouraged? The sum total- is that with all these situations, the western
arms manufacturing countries prosper and earn revenue to continue their
eerie agenadas!
With each and every dispute in the developing world and Asia, it is
the western powers that reign supreme by selling weapons to become rich
at the expense of misery targeted at innocent people!
Western powers will never wish for Asia, Middle East or the African
Continent to be rich economically, nor do they wish for “genuine
peace.” It is sad to see organizations such as The United Nations
being controlled by the cowboy politics of the US and Britain. It is
sad to see the utter hypocrisy of western powers and their quest to
continue to deceive developing countries.
President Rajapakse- please be alert & cautious with sweet promises
given by western powers, stand up for what is good and right for our
country-Sri Lanka and be bold enough to say kindly and courteously “
Thus far and no further please- our internal problems need to be solved
to suite our own situation- we are not prepared to take your recipe
and destroy Mother Lanka!
For this President Rajapakse, you will be hailed as the greatest leader
Sri Lanka has ever had, since our independence in 1948! We need true
sons of our soil to show the world, that we love our country & will
not bend our knees to western words of hypocrisy!
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