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RANIL WICKREMESINGHE INVITES FOREIGN INTERVENTION INTO THE COUNTRY TO PROTECT “SOVEREIGNTY”

By Walter Jayawardhana

Addressing a human rights body called Civil Monitoring Commission United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said to protect the sovereignty of the island due to the missing people in Sri Lanka it is nothing but correct to invite foreign intervention into the country.

Civil Monitoring Commission is a partisan body whose conveyor is the Western Province People’s Front leader and parliamentarian Mano Ganeshan who is sympathetic to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who has now joined the coalition of the UNP’s Ranil Wickremesinghe wing and SLFP’s Mangala Samaraweera wing.

The group monitors Tamil human rights problems that are blamed on the government and fails to monitor the human rights violations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) like the kidnappings of children to be recruited as child soldiers. It is being publicly supported by a Trotskeyite group led by Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne who supports the activities of the Tamil Tigers.

The Leader of Opposition addressing the group said “I am inviting foreign intervention to protect the sovereignty.” He was commenting about 130 people who are missing and blamed on the government by the group.

Wickremesinghe’s comments were made in the back drop of the following comments made in Colombo by a former Australian politician who is now heading a NGO called International Crisis Group called Gareth Evans: “All this makes it hard to argue that Sri Lanka is anything but an R2P situation. It may not be one where large-scale atrocity crimes - Cambodia-style, Rwanda-style, Srebrenica-style, Kosovo-style - are occurring right now, or immediately about to occur, but it is certainly a situation which is capable of deteriorating to that extent. So it is an R2P situation which demands preventive action, by the Sri Lankan government itself, but with the help and support of the wider international community, to ensure that further deterioration does not occur."

Sri Lanka’s leading Sinhala author Gunadasa Amarasekera called the statement of the Leader of the Opposition as most outrageous and he said he was not surprised to hear that. Wickremesinghe’s statement was broadcast by the state owned independent Television Network (ITN).

Amarasekera said there had been foreign conspiracy by Sri Lanka’s former imperial powers to divide this country and Wickramasinghe is the current agent of the foreign conspirators. He said the people of this country have failed to understand the root cause of this problem .

“The people of this country should get on the street and protest against this agent vehemently, “ Amarasekera said.

Venerable Athureliye Rathana Thero , a member of parliament of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) , the political party represented by Buddhist monks said he would like to question, if Ranil Wickremesinghe is inviting foreign intervention because of 130 missing persons what is his position about the umpteenth number of human rights violations in Iraq.

Rathana Thero said during a government in 1983-84 when Ranil Wickremesinghe held portfolio in a cabinet 1400 youth and 766 Buddhist monks went missing and an estimated 66,000 youth were massacred in extra judicial killings and nobody asked for foreign intervention.

Rathana said Wickremesinghe descends from foreign corroborators and he said bringing in foreign troops of the UN to implement a de-facto division of the country is a long thought out conspiracy and it would be achieved only over their dead bodies.

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