Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa . Ontario , K1J 6G1 . CANADA

5 September 2025

OPEN LETTER

Hon . Vijitha Herath
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Government of Sri Lanka.
Colombo . SRI LANKA

OPEN LETTER

5 September 2025

Dear Minister Herath:

The Sri Lanka Daily News reports that you briefed Diplomats of the Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka.

I am stymied…I am foxed.   Why Oh why did you do it?

Did you think they cared for two tumbling pebbles in the waters of our great Mahaweli?   Did you think that they cared two hoots of a Sri Lankan owl before he shut his eyes when the Colombo’s  sky turns dark for the night.   Did you really think that these foreign Diplomats, including UNHRC’s Volker Turk, cared for two sheaves of paddy on a waterlogged rice-paddy field at Udahamulla, waving in the wind?

You may be curious about my thinking and ask me, “Asoka Weerasinghe, why are you questioning me as to why I did brief the Foreign Diplomats of our  progress made by the Government in the area of Human Right?’  

“Well Minister Herath, that is a fair question?”

“But , let me answer your question by questioning you …Do you honestly believe these Diplomats understand, especially at UNHRC what amazing ‘Classic’ acts of Human Rights that Sri Lanka has performed!

The world didn’t care two hoots when Sri Lanka achieved the brilliant Classic War textbook example when your military forces,  single handed, annihilated the Tamil Tiger Terrorists (aka LTTE)  on May 19, 2009, after  a 30-year ethnic war, and gave  back to their 20.5 million people their ‘right-to-life’which had been hijacked by the Tamil Tiger Terrorists for 30 bloody- years;

They didn’t think much when your armed forces rescued 295,873 Tamils from the clutches of the Tamils Tigers, during the closing months of that Eelam War, who used them as a human shield, marching them for six-months  under a scorching Jaffna-Killinochchi sun like an unwashed herd of cattle, from the west coast to the east coast.

Not only that Minister, they were housed in a White Tent City and sustained them by feeding a million meals a day of healthy breakfasts , lunches and dinners.  That is why!  Both those Human Rights Acts deserved Nobel Peace Prize nominations.  But it did not happen.   That’s a pity!

These foreigners being bullies are out to get you and your government, because you are a puny island and doing amazing acts of human rights, as you are a caring people, And they have difficulty accepting it, for whatever reason.  That’s why!

Let’s get this right Minister Herath..   Human Rights should be a shield for peoples, and not a weapon against governments to weaken the State..

I say all this to you Minister Herath, a I claim my right by fighting to hold the good name of my Mother Lanka, Sri Lanka,  from the Canadian trenches since August 4, 1983, and have written over 2000 letters to editors of Canadian newspapers, Political Journals and  Parliamentarians,and have over 500 letters pick up ink.

That is why I feel stymied and foxed when we try to give into these cess-pools of Human Rights foreigners who think they are lily-white and Holier than Thou.   As they would disproportionately target smaller states as yours, while ignoring powerful nations. The ICC jurisdiction would override Sri Lanka’s Constitution, domestic courts and national security decisions.  That is why!   I hope you understand me.

We can’t be weak…we can’t show them that we are weak.  Let’s not forget, we are the land of the Lion that carries a sword.  

That Is why!   

Sincerely,

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)
(a fighter for Sri Lanka to uphold her good name for 42 years from Canadian trenches.  I claim my rights to help my Mother Lanka.  That is the bottom line.)