Re: Media Releases 1 &
2 dated Dec.3,2007
Ira de Silva
London, Ontario, Canada
December 4,2007
Executive Director
National Peace Council
Colombo.
Re: Media Releases 1 & 2 dated Dec.3,2007
Dear Sir:
Reference your latest media releases, rather than continually criticising
the actions of the government, why does your group not come up with
a viable strategy to PREVENT the suicide bombings by LTTE supporters.
In release one, as usual you have rushed to judgement as today's news
indicates that most of those detained have been released.
As for your statement regarding "people who have left the north
and east where they cannot live peacefully and safely due to the war
conditions in that part of the country", why not go to these parts
of the country and reduce the "war conditions" by educating
the Tamil terrorists and their supporters with as many seminars as are
needed on negotiations and conflict resolution to get the LTTE not to
promote war at every turn. You do this in other parts of the country.
Why not Killinochchi?
That is where your "peace efforts" are needed most. It is
evident to those who are not paid by foreign funding to promote conflict
in Sri Lanka that the root cause of the problem is the LTTE supported
by the Tamil diaspora and other organizations based in the west who
pay their local operatives to create mayhem.
In release two, regarding what you term "well meaning international
support", unfortunately some international support has been proven
to be not well meaning but supportive of LTTE terrorism. Groups such
as yours and other NGO's and INGO's have been providing moral support
and funding to the LTTE. Regarding UNICEF, the three foreign staff employed
by UNICF had taken part in a demonstration on June 6,2007. It was clearly
a violation of their terms of employment. As late as November 23rd when
asked by the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry "to take appropriate
action", Weiss of UNICEF claimed that an internal inquiry was under
way and one of the staff had already left the services of the UN agency.
What were the other two still doing at UNICEF? Surely anyone in charge
of an UN agency knows that it is illegal for their staff to involve
themselves in partisan, local political activities.
It appears that UN foreign personnel in Sri Lanka, including Weiss,
believe that they are there not to do humanitarian work but to be political
activists and dictate to the government. This has been exposed in many
instances such as Red Cross vehicles transporting military equipment
and funding of the Tamil terrorist groups in many forms. Foreign so-called
aid workers have got away with these activities for so long that they
believe that it is their job. Now that they are being exposed you and
they are trying to excuse their partisan behaviour with talk of long
track records of humanitarian assistance and promoting the rights of
children in Sri Lanka. What you ignore is that they have been partisan,
biased and have a "long track record" of aiding and abetting
the LTTE.
UNICF has got many commitments from the LTTE regarding child recruitment
to what purpose? Child recruitment just increases. Could it be that
child conscription by the LTTE is well known to UNICEF but no measures
were taken against the LTTE because of the bias and support of UN personnel?
Regarding the TRO, by your own admission the LTTE prevented that aid
from reaching the population and instead purchased arms. Therefore to
state that "the direct casualty of the banning of TRO is the Tamil
people in Sri Lanka, especially in the north and east" is patently
false as they were not receiving rehabilitation aid from the TRO. What
has been prevented is the funding of the LTTE to purchase arms. Why
do you object?
Yours truly,
Ira de Silva
London, Ontario, Canada
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