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Sri Lanka has secured 101
votes out of 192 and it shows confidence in Sri Lanka on the part of
the International Community
© Insight -By Sunil
Kumar For LankaWeb
Sri Lanka has secured 101 votes out of 192 despite 'strong campaigns'
against it and It augurs well towards the reality that there is confidence
in Sri Lanka on the part of the International Community and regardless
of the UN decision to deselect Sri Lanka from the UN Human Rights Council
(UNHRC).
It also portrays what some believe is a conspiracy towards the cause
backed by pro Tamil Tiger activists and the blinkered responses of certain
voters in the council who have lapped up all the exaggerations, innuendo
and falsified reports of Human Rights violations within Sri Lanka attributed
to the Government. A ploy which will not get its creators anywhere nor
prevent the Tamil Tigers from their ultimate sinking into oblivion if
this is indeed one of the motivations amongst others!
The campaigns set in place to discredit the Government also appear to
be motivated by disgruntled NGO's whose presence in the Island Nation
has been unwelcome in recent times as many of them tend to dabble in
the internal affairs of the Nation as well as colluding with the Tamil
tiger terrorists in some cases.
A day before the election, the 'International Coalition of NGOs' in
a statement appealed to the UN members not to vote for Sri Lanka! In
a lengthy statement dated May 20th it said that "the long and horrific
record of atrocities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamils Eelam (LTTE)
does not justify the Government's own 'rampant abuses'", but, realistically
who are they to make such unqualified and deceitful statements against
a Sovereign Democratic Nation and why has the UN been hoodwinked by
their theatrics and false propaganda with no tangible evidence to prove
their allegations?
It has to be observed that despite a very subjective campaign by Sri
Lanka, some Sri Lankan groups and individuals with vested interests
and pro Tamil Tiger sympathies appear to have also been behind this
campaign to prevent Sri Lanka's continued presence in the council tantamount
to the conspiracy referred to earlier. Sri Lanka appears to have been
specifically targeted by these groups which through orchestrated melodramatics
and innuendo has prevented Sri Lanka's retention of her seat in the
council.
To add to the loss at the UNHR council vote, there has been the influence
of some big names like former US president Jimmy Carter, Nobel laureates
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Adolfo Perez Esquival of
Argentina who campaigned to vote Sri Lanka out of the council where
over 100 member countries voted for Colombo. It might be mentioned in
passing that this threesome seems to have missed out on parts of the
world where real human rights violations take place on a daily basis
as glaring crimes against humanity. One only needs to look around where
places such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Kosovo etc in a very long list in more than an abstract perspective
are outstandingly notorious for their own making. The decision of the
UNHRC to exclude Sri Lanka on the same contributions to the violations
of human rights issue somewhat of a joke!
It has to be noted that the likes of Tutu, Carter and Esquivel appear
to have adopted a bourgeoisie attitude towards Sri Lanka for reasons
best known to them while being mind boggling to those who know the real
situation in Sri Lanka, where the Administration has been meticulously
careful about protecting all Sri Lankans against the real rampages of
human rights violations initiated and maintained by the Tamil Tiger
terrorists.
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