In Retrospect By Sarath Kumara

1st July 2011
It is becoming more and more obvious that despite all the credible responses by qualified analysts who have examined the ‘evidence’ presented towards accusing the Sri Lanka administration of human rights violations and war crimes none of it would ever hold up in any court of law as the tell tale characteristics pointing to the possibility that they were indeed fixed and doctored to suit the accusers objectives attests to skullduggery. While their conclusions alone are sufficient to discredit and trash it! yet the UN’s Human Rights chief Ms Navi Pillai’s continued insistence to warn Sri Lanka not to take too long in probing war crimes allegations, saying ” failure to carry out a credible inquiry could lead to international action” sounds like she has taken the law into her own hands or is trying to!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Firstly it needs to be noted that despite her designation, she has no authority to dictate terms to or threaten a sovereign nation within the UN Charter which Sri Lanka is, with what appears to be her own conclusions which seeem biased towards her own Tamil ethnicity whose diaspora are the main sources behind all the calls for investigations and have set up sources like the BBC to get involved (incidently no real fait accompli! nor hard to initiate) where her conflicts of interest seem to stick out like a sore thumb and probably needs to be asked to put her money where her mouth is or quit her post voluntarily as she is now beginnng to sound like an obnoxious Tamil Tiger sympathiser with no compunctions where previously she probably veiled her sympathies behind her role as a UN administrator yet kept up two sides of a charade playing the role of a benevolent UN representative on one hand and catering to the needs of the Tamil push for secession in Sri Lanka on the other using a decades long insurgency which she will in all probabilities deny !!!

Secondly she is now taking up the desparagingly continued pursuance of an issue which even her chief the UN Secretary General has diplomatically avoided saying he does not have the mandate nor authority to do so and in this respect neither has Navi Pillai despite all her bellyaching for same.

She has been high handed enough to say that “There is now a high level of expectations expressed by member states that Sri Lanka should seriously inquire into these allegations of prisoner executions and assaults, synonymously throwing in a few threats to moot! where as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights she seems to have forgotten that there have been indications of an overwhelming defeat of motioning any action against Sri Lanka by a margin of at least 40 to 20 votes in favour of Sri Lanka in the event of a vote so what is she on about as though she is the be all and end all of the UN and even seems to be violating the protocols required of a UN representative to be diplomatic, tactful and stick to her jurisdiction which does not give her carte blanche to act unilateraly and if she persists in the direction she is taking vis a vis Sri Lanka it needs to be pointed out that she epitomises someone who has surreptitiously declared her sympathies with the failed Tamil insurrection through some of her words and actions along with a few of her colleagues within the UN who seem have similar sentiments!

By virtue of her insistence that ” this should not be an open-ended process and that a previous Sri Lankan internal inquiry “failed to complete its task, never published its report and never led to a single prosecution” she has adopted a stance somewhat unrelated to reality as the report on the inquiry would invariably have been documented albeit classified although the lack of prosecutions is a clear indication that there was no reason for such within legal and binding terms as the Administration unless coerced into such actions based on hard evidence which probably had to be divined and crafted is not obliged to, merely to appease what appears to be pro Tamil Tiger sympathetic incantations by a biased UN representative who never seems to give up pursuing the GOSL.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Her rhetoric towards this cause seems to hinge on her insistence that “If that should be the case again, there is an intention for the International Community to take ‘further action’. I certainly believe that the Human Rights Council should actively consider this matter,” said Pillay hardly realising that neither her personal sentiments nor her tough talk are sufficient towards collective HRC action and that it takes much more by way of tangible evidence and substantial proof to effect this and far removed from her purported intentions on behalf of the International Community which she seems to be attempting to mislead!.

It also seems fairly obvious that the pressure which has mounted on Colombo from certain sources

since Britain’s Channel 4 broadcast, a documentary that showed what it alleged were prisoner executions and bodies of female Tamil fighters who appeared to have been sexually assaulted is a snowballing effect of false evidence.It also needs to be observed that specialist graphics experts who reviewed the broadcast

have attested to some of the material as being altered and falsified and consequently, the related pressure blown out of proportion mainly through the efforts of the Tamil Diaspora whose cause Ms. Pillai seems to be championing in the aftermath of the annihilation of the Tamil Tigers’ armed insurrection which probably needs to be investigated as to what her real role is in all this and why her insistences seem so hardcore and bitter as they appear to be on an ongoing basis and seem indelibly linked to Tamil Diaspora sentiments towards secession according to some analysts.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ The Sri Lankan Administration has responded that a local panel, known as the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, would take action if the allegations are proven but a far cry from what the UN Human Rights Pillai is insisting as she seems to want to play the Judge Jury and Executioner all by herself in a mad scramble towards what she thinks is justifiable in order to appease the enemies of the Nation of Sri Lanka whose enmities were created by their own illegitimate desire to ursurp the smooth functioning of a Sovereign Nation towards their own agendas and objectives!

In this perspective Navi Pillai seems to be overplaying her role as she continues to intimidate the Administration of Sri Lanka in a dangerous attempt towards what may simply turn out to be her own Waterloo!