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Wo! what's going on?Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester ; Ontario . CanadaKings Grove Crescent . Gloucester ; Ontario . K1J 6G1. Canada March 22, 2008 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Dear Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Wo! Wo!!, what going on in your back yard of your Rainbow Nation, Archbishop Tutu? You told the world that ‘South Africa should be regarded as the moral conscience’ and you led the attack on Sri Lanka not to be admitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council. It so happened that 101 countries did not believe you and voted for Sri Lanka to be admitted, even though Sri Lanka was destined to be unfairly voted out from the Council. /Ce la vie/. That is how the cookie crumbles in an unfair world. Those 101 countries did realize that your moralizing was historically blind, when you preached to your people “Don’t worry, be Happy’. What baloney! Those 101 countries perceived that your attack on Sri Lanka was anti-democratic encouraging Tamil Tiger terrorism at the price of blood-shed and in particular, Sinhalese blood in that tiny nation. This they knew was an extension of South Africa’s foreign policy of being an anti-democratic force, protecting tyrants like Omar el-Bashir and Robert Mugabe. That is how your South Africa is viewed by the outside world. The day after the vote at the UN, I read in the international media that your police were moving through South Africa’s ‘Don’t Worry. Be Happy” shanty towns, guns drawn, reminding all of us the days of apartheid. The days of the Sharpville shooting when most Black Africans were shot by the Whites at their backs. But yet, the struggle today is not between the White Afrikaaner oppressors and your Black oppressed. It is your Black South Africans attacking Black immigrants, setting them and their houses and businesses alight. Many of these victims are your own African brother and sister Zimbabweans. The violence I am told is directed at foreigners living in the Alexandra Township, north of Johannesburg and is now spreading to the city centre and across the Gauteng region. Mobs of your Black South Africans have been roaming through townships looking for foreigners and the majority of the five million are believed to be Zimbabweans. Tut! Tut!!, Desmond Tutu. I hope you realize that your coining the metaphor ‘Rainbow Nation’ for post-apartheid South Africa which entered the mainstream consciousness to describe South Africa’s ethnic diversity, is now fallen dead with a bullet riddle ‘rainbow’ body covered in blood, having been shot at by your own Blacks. If you are going to live according to your reputation as‘Mister Anglican Cleric of Moral Conscience’, lets have you report this matter to the UN and tell them that your South Africa is a ready candidate to be dealt according to the doctrine of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P), as she thrives being a Human Rights violator and its failure to treat refugees with compassion and respect and that they need protection. And let me be clear, Sri Lanka’s defeat at the UN Human Rights Council signifies nothing which has accommodated human rights violators like Gabon, Zambia and Pakistan that your moral conscience keeps having hissy-fits about. Sri Lanka will carry on regardless to bring about law and order to its terrorism ravaged nation, and do what is right to protect its territory and defend the right to life of its peoples from the most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world, the Tamil Tigers, which I believe you have a soft spot for. By the way Archbishop Tutu, you are never too old to learn and important lesson, that my Mumma taught me – “Never throw stones at others when you are living in a glass house, even if you are privileged to have a halo over your head or garbed in a crimson velvet robe signifying that you a Lord’s Cleric.” That bit of my Mumma’s wisdom though worth a million Rands, I will part with it for free to you, as your moral conscience needs a bit of transfusion of ‘honesty’. Sincerely,
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