"Times Online"
Seems To Be Responding To Tamil Diaspora Propaganda In Wrongfully
Naming Karuna A War Criminal When There Are Others Truly More Deserving!
© In RetroSpect
~By Sarath Kumar For LankaWeb ~ Dec. 21st 2007
David Brown writes on Times Online under the caption "War crimes
inquiry into Tamil rebel living in UK" that "A Sri Lankan
guerrilla leader living in London is being investigated for possible
war crimes charges and that The Times has learnt~Karuna Amman also
known as Col. Karuna who has been implicated in atrocities over two
decades, entered Britain on a diplomatic passport." While these
seem to be random allegations with no tangible proof despite this
individual's previous links to the mainstream Tamils terrorists inasmuch
as a certain cabinet minister who also belonged to the same group
in the past both of who have broken away from the Tamil Tigers and
have been doing their utmost to expose their previous masters in a
manner beneficial to the Nation of Sri Lanka as well as the cause
of Global terrorism.
If The Crown Prosecution Service is looking into whether there is
sufficient evidence to bring this individual to trial under international
laws on war crimes they seem to have missed the bus on another individual
with proven crimes against humanity attested to by eye witnesses.This
particular individual Anton Balasingham now deceased together with
his wife Adele an Australian by descent who is persona non grata in
the land of her birth by virtue of her criminalities and dubious character
were heavily involved in torture, hostage-taking the training of guerillas
and murdering innocent civilians including infants at a recorded time
in the annals of LTTE terrorism some years ago. These two persons
were granted free access to an unimpeded lifestyle in the United Kingdom
despite many questions raised in both Houses of the British Parliament
about the legalities involved and perhaps not too late to bring the
wife of the deceased criminal Balasingham to justice foe her involvement!
It is now known that he was conscienceless criminal who posed as an
idealogue and a political activist whereas he too was an unpardonable,
two faced despot in collussion with the idealogies of the Tamil Tigers
but managed to hoodwink Sri Lanka, India and the United Kingdom with
his theatrics.
It is possible that the admission into the United Kingdom of Karuna
may have been an administrative faux pas and the so called diplomatic
passport he is alleged to have travelled on, a fake of unknown origin
but that is a matter for the immigration to decide rather tham making
it sound ludicrous about the criminal accusations against Karuna who
in the overall scheme of things relative to Sri Lanka's terrorist
problem became a moderate, was prepared to lay down arms and join
mainstream Sri Lankan Society, ready to enter politics as a leader
of his Tamil community unlike his opposite number Velupillai Prabhakaran
who continues to be a brutal killer and a megalomaniac criminal leader
of the Tamil Tiger terrorists!
Unless proven beyond reasonable doubt, Karuna has to be viewed as
a Sri Lanka Nation friendly, anti LTTE activist who was in all probabilities
seeking political asylum in the UK through the wrong channels needing
to be pardoned as someone who has come clean just as much as some
of the previously condemned IRA members who indulged in terrible attrocities
through sectarian violence and insurrections against the British Government
during Britains problems with the IRA who were also pardoned or perhaps
even conveniently ignored towards British posterity.
There is no question as Mr Brown in his Times Online article has implied
that " any prosecution would risk a serious rift with the Sri
Lankan Government where his group of fighters are reputed to be (albeit
unconfirmed) "a great help" to the Sri Lankan Government
Forces in their relentless onslaught to rid the Nation of the Velupillai
Prabhakaran led Tamil Tigers who are an internationally proscribed
outfit of criminals where the Government Forces are having a great
measure of success consequently and apparently poised to annihilate
them completely.
It has to be noted that this type of individual is bound to have a
great many enemies by virtue of his allegiance with the Sri lankan
Government and if true, particularly amongst the Tamil diaspora who
support the criminalities of Velupillai Prabhakaran and are more than
likely to spread false propaganda and create innuendo and rumours
about his alleged mendacities but to all intents and purposes it has
to be recognized that Karuna is a Sri Lankan Nation friendly Tamil
now seeking posterity for his community through the proper channels
as opposed to Velupillai Prabhakaran the ruthless criminal wanted
by Sri lanka, India as well as Interpol and therein lie the differences
between the teo individuals.
In this respect it could only be fair to assume that Karuna needs
the benifit of any doubt on the part of the British authorities to
either grant his sought asylum in the UK, release him to the Sri Lankan
Authorities or return him back to Sri Lanka where laying unproven
charges against him would be a travesty of justice given all the circumstances
previously stated.
The reference to Ms. Kim Howells, a British Foreign Office minister
having told the Commons that the Government believed “Karuna
and his faction to be responsible for extrajudicial killings, abductions,
intimidation of displaced persons and child recruitment” resulting
in The Foreign Office having a “great deal” of concern about
the Sri Lankan Government’s link to him cannot be taken as a
Habeas Corpus applicatrion to incarcerate him as Ms. Howells herself
was in the not too distant past involved in quite a bit of controversy
both with the Sri Lankan Administration as well as the Sinhalese Nation
on her meddling stance and altogether contentious, unsolicited involvements
in the internal matters of Sri Lanka mostly on hearsay and on the
instigation of displaced disgruntled terrrorist supportiveTamils around
the world it is thought and perhaps need to be taken with more than
a pinch of salt.
The "extrajudicial killings,abductions, intimidations of displaced
persons and child recruitment" are hallmarks of Velupillai Prabhakaran's
gang of criminals where no rocket science unlike in the case of the
allegations against Karuna are needed to prove them!They have been
ongoing for over four decades and continuing even today to a lesser
intensity due to the resillience of the Administration to curb them!
The Foreign Office while saying that “we expressed our concern
about how Mr Karuna was able to obtain a diplomatic passport. The
Home Office and Crown Prosecution Service are looking at number of
options. Because of the legal issues we are unable to discuss this
any further.” seems to be circumspect at drawing any accurate
conclusions about the issue but still remains a matter for the British
Immigration Authorities to ascertain rather than attempting to incarcerate
and castigate this individual for the wrong reasons.
The Sri Lankan High Commission has said that “The Sri Lankan
Government is unaware of any diplomatic passport or any application
for a visa to enter the UK.” and considering the protocols involved,
the British Authorities should be compelled to treat the matter with
the expected diplomacies rather than take a Bull In A Chinashop attitude
if it is merely to please the Tamil Diaspora and respond to their
propaganda laced rhetoric!
