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AIDS/HIVE epidemic and politicsNawagamu DeshabanduIt is good news to learn that Sri-Lanka could boast about being one of the few countries having relatively a low number of HIV/AIDS patients. Nothing is impossible in this regard. We could enact laws to bar foreigners
who have HIV/AIDS entering our country. I don’t think anyone with
an iota of brain would realize that it is a measure to safeguard our
people, and it is no way of an indicative of human rights violations
which a few of the Western governments and the Ranil Wickramasinghe
have been using in an attmept to chastise our democratically elected
good government in this context. Further, as in the case of HIV/AIDS, no government in the world could boast of having free of human rights violations which are usually committed by the various ruthless enemy agencies. Human rights violations are driven by catalyst agencies within and out side of governments in the world to topple the governments who are not favorable to Western interests . We need to learn a lot from our history, and not let happen the same
mistakes twice. A famous example from our history is the prince Don
Juan Dhramapala who betrayed the whole nation for power and ended up
being the most beloved house arrested prisoner by his own colonial British
admired rulers. For power he changed his religion, name and he damaged
his own culture, religion and our heritage. We do have the same Don Juan in the present context, who is adamant
about betraying our country even by going to the extreme of asking all
international banks, regulatory bodies of International banks to not
to lend money to continue with essential projects that have already
been started to benefit a vast majority of common people in the rural
sector. Ranil’s Chinthanya ( vision ) of " power for me or else nothing
for my people" is unfortunately popular among his henchmen, juntas
and like minded selfish supporters who are already busy with in doing
so to get the power or make a buck or two in Sri-Lanka. They should
not underestimate that Sri-Lanka is not the land of their own and this
country belongs to anyone who is a citizen. And therefore, we as the
normal people have the every right to protect it. The programs for preventing the spread of the AIDS/HIV in Sri-Lanka are no exemptions to obstacles that can be placed by those who are in the habit of tarnishing the good image of Sri-Lanka. Recently, the JHU has revealed such a threat designed to make Buddhist
clergies vulnerable to HIV/AIDS through blood transfusion or otherwise
by an organizations that are against Buddhism. I would be very proud of my own country, regardless of it being poor with respect to money, weapons, nuclear weapons or pollution rich industrial environments, if it can implement strict measures to safe guard the country of falling into an HIV/AIDS epidemic, and likewise take measure to not let the Western governments to take away our God given rights to mange our own internal affairs in our own land. One, and of course a good measure, is to make it illegal any foreigner
with HIV/AIDS to enter our country. There are already a few countries
that have this law.
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