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Do we need Colonial Buffons to dictate terms to us?

Purananda By e-mail

The Open letter to British High Commissioner Dominic Chilcott by Sarath Wijesinghe (D/N 24/5) is an eye opener to the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister to take appropriate diplomatic/disciplinary action against this British Representative who has violated the Vienna Convention adopted on 16 April 1961 more than once.

Dominic Chilcott has been severely criticised by many Sri Lankans through the columns of Sri Lankan newspapers in the past. I could remember H.L.D Mahindapala once taking this Englishman to task when Chilcott put his foot into where he should not have, as soon as he assumed duties in Colombo. Subsequently, Tyrone Fernando who was once the Foreign Minister very clearly defined diplomatic perimeters and how Chilcott abused his privileges to go against the very core of the Geneva Convention.

We now know this is Chilcott's first diplomatic appointment outside Britain. Should the Government show a Nelsonian eye any longer when this diplomat with a least amount of experience in foreign affairs attempts boldly to interfere with the democratically elected Sri Lankan government affairs?

We cannot afford to follow the middle path any longer saying either we are Buddhists or hold the other cheek when we are slapped across our cheek saying Christians at a time when a white serpent in the form of a diplomatic officer is hell bent on interfering with our lives and dictates terms to us.

Following all the advice given by those who love this country about this foreigner who is repeatedly exposing as a pain in the neck, the Foreign Minister should take Chilcott's unacceptable diplomatic behaviour to the Excutive President for him to follow our late President Premadasa's stance when David Gladstone one of his former tried his monkey pranks in Sri Lanka. Lets send President Rajapakse a clear message to send Chilcott too out on the ear making him a persona Nona grate.

Lets create history again, by becoming the only Commonwealth country which made a British diplomat persona Nona grate twice, out of their track record of three, the first being Nigeria long time ago. We have enough traitors in Sri Lanka and do we need any Colonial buffoons to come and dictate terms to us any more?

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