Your Excellencies Respected Heads of Missions, Delegates, and Directors -by Charles.S.Perera

The US State Department did not raise one voice against terrorism then . But now USA moves resolutions against Sri Lanka for violation ofƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Human rights ofƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  terrorists.

The terrorists in Sri Lanka for thirty years carried out massacres , assassinations, used human bombsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  and one such human suicide bomb was a woman strapped with a bomb in side her clothesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  which she detonated killing the young Prime Minster of India Rajiv Gandhi in the explosion.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  They were ruthless and most inhuman.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ But these terrorists of Sri Lanka cultivated close friendship first with Eric Solheim of Netherlands and then with the Ambassadors of USA Robert OƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢Blake and many other Western Ambassadors, who they invited to the terrorist controlled areas where they were entertained.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Hence these Western countries through their AmbassadorsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  did not put them into the same category of terrorists like Al Qaida or Talibans that terrorised their countries, but accepted them as rebels or freedom fighters who want to set up a homeland for the Tamils.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ThereforeƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  America and the Western countriesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  wanted to find a political solution to establish a Tamil Homeland for them.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Many rounds ofƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  peace talks were arranged between the Government and the terrorists but the terrorists walked out half way after discussionsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  and massacred innocent people in Sri Lanka by exploding claymore bombs or suicide bombs after each round of abandoned peace talks to show their antagonism for a political solution.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ At the end the Government was forced toƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  resort to a military solution to end terrorism in Sri Lanka.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ However despite the demand by USA State Department and some of the Western powers demanding not to resort to a military solution, Sri Lanka which suffered under terrorism for 30 years had no alternative but to fight it out militarily and finallyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  eliminated terrorism.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Since this USA and the Sri Lanka Terrorist friendly Western CountriesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  who were not able to save the terrorists who had by then become their friendsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  is all out to take revenge from Sri Lanka accusing that its Armed Forces killed large numbers of civilians in the last phase of the war against terrorism.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ There were no body to distinguish the soldiers or the civilians, andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  no body to count the number of civilians or terrorists dead except the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and the Terrorists.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  They were fighting a warƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  each side uncertain of the out come of the war.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  They had no time to count the dead bodies, the Sri Lanka Armed forces had while fighting to rescue 300ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 000 Tamil civilians running away from the terrorists.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Now the UNHuman Rights Commissioner who being a Tamil herself and sympathetic towards the Tamil terroristsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  and the USA and the Western Nations who had cultivated an friendship with the terrorist in Sri Lanka who were not a danger to them, though that relation ship is immoral , are claiming that 40000 civilians had been killed by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces during the last phase of the war.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ This they cannot prove as the numbers killed in any war is not accountable.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  USA too cannot give exact number of civilians the American Armed ForcesƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya Pakistan and elsewhere.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Therefore the present move by the USA to pass a resolution against Sri Lanka for the elimination of terrorists and in that exercise for violating human rights is an enormous injustice in relation to Sri Lanka which suffered from terrorism for thirty long years and sacrificed many of its Political leaders, Ministers, Security Officers and intellectuals apart from the massacres of men, women and children., andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  thousands of Soldiers.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ This resolution the USA is proposing to move against Sri Lanka at the UNHRCouncil Session in March, 2003, is unfair and unjust, to say the least ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ and therefore, no government who can imagine what it is to live under terrorism may understand the necessity to at least now leaveƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Sri Lanka and its people enjoy a well earned peace without interfering unnecessarilyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  ask about what happened at the elimination of terrorists four years ago.

Therefore, as an old man from Sri Lanka who had seen the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-hellƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  that was created by terroristsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  in Sri Lanka and suffered the death of many near and dear oneƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s and unaccountable number of innocent men , women and children killed by the terrorists and ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ had lived in an ever present fear of death appeal to you not to vote for the Resolution that USA is proposing to move at this ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ session of the UNHRCouncil .

Yours respectfully,
I remain,

Charles.S.Perera