By Noor Nizam, Sri Lankan Canadian Peace Activist (Canada) – 27.05.2009.

The cessation of the fighting in Sri Lanka marks the welcome end of a prolonged and brutal war. But it also creates a major issue of immediate concern.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The major issue is the critical plight of the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the north and east of the country who have been victimized by the brutality of the LTTE which is a reality to understand.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The international community failed them during the fighting by falling short of its commitments under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. It must not fail them again by leaving them to the cruelty of International punishment and delaying tactics of stalling and delaying the IMP loan of 1.9 billion dollars that the IMF has already worked out to grant Sri Lanka. The maliciously orchestrated democratic engagements in the international forums, supported by INGO’s like The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, an umbrella group of global organizations which includes Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch has a hidden political agenda. The agenda is to derail and stalemate the generous functions of a Sovereign State to provide for its citizens there legitimate need in the aftermath of winning the humanitarian war achieved by it’s friendly army and the will of the people and it’s civil service. Brutalities of war cannot be denied, but the humanitarian mission of the Sri Lankan Army under the guidance of General Sarath Fonseka and Secretary of Defense, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was never understood by the bullying Western interests who have been toiling to call for this special session on Sri Lanka. Tuesday’s special session on Sri Lanka was requested by 17 nations, including France, Germany, Britain, and Canada. A Human Rights Commission special session has been convened on only 10 previous occasions.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The United Nations Human Rights Council clashed Tuesday (26) over two competing resolutions on how to provide aid to thousands of people displaced by the Sri Lankan military campaign against the Tamil Tigers.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Sri Lanka goes into today’s meeting backed by powerful new allies such as China, which provided much of the military hardware for the final offensive that defeated the Tamil Tigers last week after a 25-year war….

Several undecided countries, including Chile and Mexico, are pressing for a compromise resolution incorporating elements of both drafts.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Dr. Palitha Kohona, Foreign Affairs Secretary, Government of Sri Lanka said recently at a gathering in Colombo:

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ “One obvious victim of the conflict was our economy – and it suffered immensely during the past 27 years. It is estimated that the country lost USD 200 billion in lost opportunity. The importance of targeting Sri Lanka’s economy was recognized. A cynic has observed that some Western nations have continued to labor under the “white man’s burden” in a different form. The Government adopted a hard line to this attitude. Instead of succumbing to these pressures, the Government sought development assistance from other partners and non-traditional allies and turned to alternative markets where possible. This effort paid handsome dividends. Iran, for example, pledged over $ 1.9 billion in development assistance to Sri Lanka. China’s share of development assistance topped 1 billion Dollars. Japanese assistance continued unaffected by the critical approach of Western democracies. India continued to assist Sri Lanka, including in strategic matters. While Sri Lanka, confronted with the choice of economic blackmail or finding an accommodation with terrorism, had to strengthen its ties with alternative partners. However, it will work assiduously at fostering traditional ties. We must be pragmatic.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ One has to begin to feel that the hypocrisy of the selected Western and North American states such as Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Mauritius, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay supporting the resolution against Sri Lanka tabled by Switzerland and supported by European countries is indeed an act of democratic terrorism the West is implying on one of the oldest democracies in the South East Asian Region or the Indian Ocean Ring – namely Sri Lanka.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The question now is – HAS THE UNHRC TURNED TO DEMORATIC TERRORISM TO PENALISE SRI LANKA.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ A counter resolution tabled by Sri Lanka and backed by powerful allies including China, Russia, and India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Egypt supporting Sri Lanka’s counter resolution calls for the UN to cooperate with the Sri Lankan government in providing humanitarian assistance.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The countries of the non-aligned movement (except Chili) the African group and the Organization of Islamic countries today alleged that the move to call a special UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session on Sri Lanka, showed the double standards of the West when probing human rights violations.

“We hope that the UNHRC would also put equal emphasis to other conflicts in Asia or the Middle East, where the US army drone hit 2% of their targets with a rate of 98% of collared loses,” the Algerian Envoy to the UNHRC said today.

“This showed that this special session was distorted by double standards which hinder its universality,” he added.

Allied countries which supported the resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka urging for immediate international corporation for reconstruction, resettlement and reconciliation. It also highlighted the principal of sovereignty and territorial integrity.

What does this means to world DEMOCRACY?

Senior Presidential Advisor and MP Basil Rakapaksa has the most appropriate answer to the international conspirators:

“The international community is welcome to provide Sri Lanka with assistance, but it should be according to the wishes of the people of this country, including the people of the North, Senior Presidential Advisor and MP Basil Rakapaksa said in a message to the international community.

“If they want to be our friends, then they should be genuine friends. We do not want ‘monitors,’ we need partners. Be our partners in this task to help our people,” said Rajapaksa”

The counter resolution tabled by Sri Lanka calling for the UN to cooperate with the Sri Lankan government in providing humanitarian assistance should win over the resolution tabled by Switzerland at the special sessions of the UNHRC this week.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The so-called gang of international democratic terrorists at the UNHRC and their vultures INGO’s striving to find a way of living for themselves in providing the “old boys club” of International politicians and civil servants should be defeated once and for all by all democratic international allies.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ THE UNHRC TURNED TO DEMORATIC TERRORISM TO PENALISE SRI LANKA HAS TO BE STOPPED.