Sangadasa Akurugoda

Sri Lanka is facing an unprecedented economic crisis, since independence, due to the depletion of foreign exchange reserves. Meanwhile, the Resolution against Sri Lanka titled ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was passed at the UNHCR few days ago.  The resolution against Sri Lanka, as usual, was proposed by a group of states comprising the so-called Core Group on Sri Lanka (UK, US, Canada Germany etc) and introduced by the UK Ambassador to UNHCR, Rita French. The countries voted for the resolution are well known pro-western countries while the counties voted against the resolution (especially China and Pakistan) are well known for supporting us whenever we are in trouble. 

At many times in our history, the sovereignty and independence of our motherland has been damaged due to foreign interference. We remember very well how separatist terrorism grew due to the intervention of India, Norway and same group   of the western countries (today appearing as ‘Core Group on Sri Lanka’}  in the most recent era and how it became a curse for the country for thirty years. Instead of helping the Sri Lankan government to eradicate terrorism the western countries then appeared as donor countries / Co-chairs ’ and almost forced the then government to bow down to the conditions laid down by the terrorist group, since we were made to dependent economically on those neo colonialists.  What would have been the situation in the country today, if the country continued to follow the CFA (Cease Fire Agreement) signed in 2002 and the P-TOMS (Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure) signed 2005 as advised by the so-called Co-Chairs, instead of eradicating terrorism militarily under the right political leadership in 2009?   Thus the basic question is whether there is any difference between what these westerners were doing in the past and what they are doing now exploiting the country’s economic crisis.

Thus the eradication of terrorism militarily, no doubt, was of ‘grave concern’ to some countries (including those who trained and armed the racial groups at the very beginning), who are interested in maintaining their ‘superiority’ over the others. On the other hand, the eradication of terrorism also caused tremendous hardship to the political wings of the militarily eliminated LTTE, the TNA and the GTF, the politicians who signed pacts with the terrorist leader and promoted so-called political solutions for three decades, and the NGOs. They were exploring every possible political avenue, by any means necessary, to install a puppet regime to achieve their goals.

Apart from being in the midst of immense economic hardship, patriotic goals of the people who elected a President with a remarkable mandate of 6.9 million during the last Presidential election are also unexpectedly facing many obstacles and challenges. By hook or crook, the President elected by the people’s vote is no more and he was replaced by a Parliamentarian completely rejected by the people during the last Parliamentary election, but elected through Parliamentary votes!

 It is apparent now, that the country is moving fast towards its foreign policies prior to 1956 and moving away from the countries that helped us economically and politically in many ways since then. We were under foreign powers for centuries due to the acts of saboteurs and traitors. Throughout our history, invaders manipulate public opinion to retain power more than artilleries. Portuguese, Dutch and British invaders used the above weapons with the enormous support from power-hungry segments of society.

The West won the world not by superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non Westerners never do.‘ British Duplicity in ‘The PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS in Sri Lanka’ (http://archives.dailynews.lk/2013/04/04/fea01.asp ) The Uva Wellassa region where thousands of our forefathers laid down their lives for the liberation of the country from the clutches of British imperialism is one of the example in our history where the he British rulers massacred thousands of Sinhala youth and a mass exodus of people continued from the area as the irrigation tanks and the property of the people were destroyed by the British rulers after the 1818 rebellion.

Unless we are fully aware of what is going on, and act wisely to defeat the sinister motives of those enemies, the much awaited peace, stability and progress of our country, prior to last Presidential election, will be at stake.