S Congressman Sherman's motion
on Sri Lanka -Smells of hypocrisy!
Ajit Randeniya, Los Angeles
As is widely known, a Californian Congressman by the name
of Brad Sherman last week tabled in the US Congress the Resolution 1338,
which calls for an international Human Rights monitoring mission to
help maintain law and order in Sri Lanka, and making other demands which
include an end to the ongoing military campaign against the LTTE and,
you guessed it, Human Rights violations!.
The US Resolution and its sponsor Sherman's motives raise obvious curiosity
in the minds of those who follow international affairs with interest
because, here we have a country engaged in the daily murder of civilians
in Iraq and almost annihilating the innocent tribes people in Afghanistan
in the name of a 'war on terrorism' concerned about the attempt of a
long established democracy to put an end to a meaningless campaign of
terror being inflicted on it by a psychopath.
The major reason for interest on the matter comes from the background
of the sponsor of the 'motion' Brad Sherman. Sherman, who is a Californian
Congressman (pay no attention to his claim to be a Democrat - he is
like Liebermann, simply a Zionist rather than a Democrat or a Republican).
His past, since election in 1997, is interesting! He wants Iran penalised,
he is against north Korea, he thinks the guilty party in the middle
east is the Palestinians. But here he is, trying to appear to be fighting
for the rights of the 'innocent' LTTE army.
This great humanitarian has not thought it fit to try and influence
the Israeli government against the collective punishment of the innocent
women and children in the Gaza or the daily harassment of the Palestinians
in the West Bank. Nor has he thought that the ongoing land grab and
colonisation of the Palestinian land by the Israelis is a violation
of the human rights of the Palestinians.
Sherman has not found it significant enough to ask his own government
to stop the careless, random and unwarranted killings of tribal civilians
in wedding and funeral gatherings in the Pakistan Afghanistan border.
Nor has he thought that the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq
by his own government, causing the death of over a million Iraqis a
significant enough matter for him to raise concern.
But here he is, sponsoring a Resolution seeking intervention in Sri
Lanka!
All Sri Lankans need to recognise the links between these issues in
order to deal with them with the necessary level of ridicule. It is
part of the strategy of the neocons to divert world attention from the
real theatres of cruelty and injustice, primarily the Palestinian issue
to other contrived issues like Burma, Zimbabwe, Dafur and whatever elsethey
can trump up.
The Sri Lankan government and the people need to treat this cunning
with the condemnation it deservestotal disregard.
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