Asoka WeerasingheƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Gloucester . Ontario.Canada

May 15, 2009

The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN

Sir:

When Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa said (May 15) that all civilians held by the Tamil Tigers as a human shield in the Northeast of Sri Lanka will be rescued within the next 48 hours, and he has managed to rescue over 200,000 innocent Tamil civilians during the past month, the International voices like that of the British are playing the game of “We gotch ya, Sri Lanka”. According to your report, “The British government’s pledge to support an early investigation into allegations that Sri Lanka Forces committed war crimes…” This statement is so transparent that they still want to halt the final offensive against the Tamil Tiger terrorists, the most ruthless in the world, to keep them alive to fight another day and kill innocent civilians in the hundreds.

If war crimes in Sri Lanka are their real concern, let’s hear them say that they will be looking into war crimes of the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Velupuillai Prabhakaran, for abducting and recruiting over 6,300 children (UNICEF stats.) under the age of 14 as child soldiers. After all former Liberian President Charles Taylor was charged by the International Criminal Court for the very same reason, for forcing children under the age of 15 to take up arms against their own people in the course of their 11-year civil war.

Western hypocrisy seems to be the rule of the day when it comes to Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist war, trying to save the main culprit in this war, the Tamil Tigers because of the pressures of their voting Tamil constituents who are in scores of thousands around the world.

Asoka Weerasinghe

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