Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara.
Posted on July 6th, 2010
This
is an article published on 7.7.2010 in Lankaweb resubmitted for publication as
it is more relevant and timely than ever before, in view of the ongoing and
unending harassment deployed towards this country by the UNO and its other
agencies like the UNCHR and Human Watch after reading the beautiful analysis of
UNO by By Shenali Waduge under” Cut the crap UN – your foreign Missions have
failed, your tribunals are dead ducks & UN is corrupt & biased, Posted
on March 31st, 2019 in Lankaweb.
In this backdrop I
reiterate and emphasize the urgent need for such new world organization as
suggested above first to ascertain our independence and second to isolate these
blood thirsty colonial parasites who have, invaded plundered. Destabilizes and
destroyed the whole world for over a period of seven centuries and still
struggling to maintain their past hegemony.
Last year I
wrote on the need for an independent Afro-Asian UNO in view of the anti-Asian
and anti-African attitude of the UNO under its present dominance by the western powers and their allies. Now
with the final appointment of a Committee by its Secretary General under the
pressure from these powers isn’t it clear that the need for such organization
has become more crucial. I reiterate the urgent need for such a new world
organization to protect Asian and African countries from western harassing and
also to address the needs of the Afro-Asian countries.
I reproduce what
I wrote last year below. I would like to add only one comment regarding the
role of Japan and South Korea to this article. These two countries which are
pro-American at present I think should now adopt a pro-Asian attitude to common
regional problems.
My sympathies
with Ban Moon the present Secretary General though represents an Asian country
is struggling to gain a second term by representing the western interests.
Today he acts only a puppet in the hands of
his religious convictions, personal greed for the second term. It is a
tragedy that he does not realize that and thereby he is going against one of
his Asian Nation State. His religious conviction, the influence of his church
and personal greed for the second term and perhaps the benefits he may be
getting from the Tamil Diaspora may have made him to forget the Sri Lankan
government’s support he got last time to gain this position. Had the Sri Lankan
Government supported Jayantha Danpala things would have been different.
My article of
27.9.2009.
Going by how
things are been currently manipulated at the UNO by the West and its allies and
how shabbily and discriminately Asian countries like ours are treated, I fully
endorse L. Jayasooriya’s proposition (Asian Tribune) that we must look for an
alternative Asian (or Afro-Asian) UNO in
place of the present disintegrating (politically, Economically and culturally)
West dominated neocolonial exploiter gang dancing to the tune of USA in order
to destabilize and pauperize the small countries who are trying to rise from
the abysmal depths in to which these very colonial powers have driven us from
the beginning of the 16th century. The
UNO today has forgotten its Charter and has got reduced to a United
Neo-colonial Outfit of the west”. The main aim of these ex-colonial exploiters
is to keep these Afro-Asian countries in eternal poverty entrenched in
political disarray and ethnic wars so that they could sell their arms and all other
industrial stuff including outdated technology and continue their neo- colonial
exploitation in order to perpetuate their hegemony and prosperity.
However they
little realize that their days of supremacy in all aspects, such as economic,
military and intellectual are a thing of the past; at least the journey to that
destination has already begun with the election of Obama as the President of
the United States of America. As Samuel Huntington, the renowned Harvard
professor, has very aptly pointed out in his The Clash of Civilization and the
Remaking of the World Order” (1997) the Euro-American face of Western
affluence and political influence, universality of the western culture and the
beliefs are no more tenable. Today it is false, immoral and dangerous to have
such a view as he says. America today is a disparate nation, whereas countries
like Sri Lanka are not. This is what unfortunately the west has failed to
understand. They have become the victims of their affluence which is a direct
product of colonial exploitation. Rejection of the western creed and
civilization as Huntington has argued means the end of the USA. It also means
effectively the end of western civilization. Like all other world civilizations
today the western civilization has entered in to the stage of internal decay
and therefore it is marching towards the grand finale of its end in the same
manner other past word civilizations like the Greek, Roman and Ottoman etc did.
What is more is now it is universally accepted that tomorrow once again, as it
had been in the golden past, belongs to the East and not to the West.
In this backdrop
it is high time that these western powers at least now renounce their assumed
supremacy mentality and learn to treat all nations as equals, irrespective of
their geographical size and economic power. I am making this comment especially
in the context of the current attitude of the west towards my own country
particularly after the Sri Lanka government has successfully defeated the LTTE
terrorist outfit after 30 long years of suffering and destruction.
The whole world
knows how the western camp and even India were instrumental in training and
arming the LTTE to destabilize this little Island, the Home of Theravada
Buddhism and the Land of the Sinhala people for the past 2500 years. But thanks
to the Present President and his able team led by the Secretary Defense and the
Heads of the three forces with Sarath Fonseka in command, we were fortunately
able to defeat all those diabolical conspiracies. By doing that I think Sri
Lanka has achieved a historic victory. Both in its scale and military
ramifications and also external involvements, this was the biggest and the most
difficult war ever fought on Sri Lankan soils. What everybody thought unwinnable
the Sri Lankan government has won and set an example to the whole world for
which they have to be thankful to this little Island nation. Because it has set
the modus operandi as to how terrorists should be eliminated. In the aftermath
of the war it should be the duty and the obligation of the entire world in the
name of world peace and humanity to help Sri Lanka to raise its head out of
thirty years of destruction and devastation left by these terrorists and
re-emerge as a politically and economically stable state. The whole world also
should help Sri Lanka to trace the remaining remnants of LTTE and eliminate
them not only to complete the mission carried out by Sri Lanka but also to free
the whole world from terrorism. Instead of intimidating this little Island the
west should help to complete the wonderful job the Sri Lankan government has
done in defeating the LTTE. The burden is more so, on the part of those western
countries such as the United Kingdom who are directly as well as indirectly
responsible for this unfortunate situation in countries like Sri Lanka.
Although the LTTE has been physically defeated on Sri Lankan soils we have to
remember that it’s widely spread tentacles both at home and over the globe are
still not dead.
Now let us see
what some of these countries are doing instead and how they behave nakedly
again to destabilize this Island Nation to fulfill their own agendas,
completely ignoring the independence, sovereignty and the democratic right to
manage our own affairs. The major issues they are gunning at are the question
of IDPs, violation of human rights, so-called excesses in the concluded war
against LTTE terrorism, freedom of the press and a political solution to the
so-called ethnic problem that exist only in their own minds. See the blatant duplicity of USA policy
compared with what the ‘Bush
Doctrine stated in 2001 that it would not distinguish between terrorist
organizations and nations or governments that harbor them” The problem here is the tiny Sri Lankan
government has done in two and half
years what these major powers could not do for decades. I know it is a shame on
them as it was acknowledged even by the New York Times.
They also must
now be trying to take revenge for not conceding to their pressure to save
Pirapahan and his lieutenants at the last moment. When they did so, they little realized that
they are interfering with the independence and sovereignty of an independent
nation and also with the mandated right of the government of Sri Lanka to conduct
its internal governance according to the will of its own people. It is true
that there are international conventions and treaties governing certain actions
of individual nations but you can’t have one criterion for America and its
allies and another for smaller countries like Sri Lanka. What the Sri Lankan
government has done is it has put an end to an internal terrorist movement that
was pestering its very existence for nearly 30 long years, internationalized
and supported by these very forces now again trying to give a new lease of life
to LTTE under different names like human rights and war crimes. I also must say that we as a member of the
UNO have not violated any principle enshrined in the UN Charter either.
On the other
hand what moral right do they have to advice us on matters like human rights
and excesses of war etc when they are the real culprits who have done worst
things in other countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam? I am sure how
suspects are treated in Guantanamo has no conceivable parallels Sri Lanka. Sri
Lankan government is only trying to rehabilitate those victimized by the LTTE.
Of cause in the process the legitimate government of the country also has to
weed out the LTTE elements who take cover under the IDP flag with the intention
of regrouping and reorganizing in the future.
According to New
York Times/The Nation, US $ 800 billion have been spent on the Iraq war. 130,000 US troupes (in addition to other
European carders and 75 US bases are involved; 14040 journalists and 600,000
civilians have been so far killed; there are 5 million IDPS suffering 70 % of
whom do not have even adequate water.
The Iraq war began in March 2003. In Afghanistan they started the war in 2001
and an equal number if not more people have been killed. What right do they
have severally and jointly to invade those countries and kill their people in
tens of thousands. Are they not war crimes? Why didn’t Banki Moon take action
against such gross violations? Have they not violated human rights in a global scale?
Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black, though we cannot be categorized as
a kettle for the simple reason that we have not violated any such human right,
as we were only defending the country against an internationally manipulated
terrorist outfit which has waged a brutal war to destroy this country? We also
have not invaded someone else’s country as they have done. Was it not the USA
who trained and financed Al-Queda against Russia in Afghanistan and finally got
the retribution with enhanced interest when they attacked the World Trade
Centre on 1.11.2001?
Similarly was it
not the UK who provided a heaven for global terrorism by accommodating Al-Queda
and LTTE Head Quarters in London even after they have been named and banned as
terrorist organizations.
Shenali Waduge
recently has lucidly exposed UKs involvement in global terrorist activities
under ‘Has not Britain been sponsoring terror?
(Wed,
2009-09-23) I reproduce the whole thing here because it is so interesting to
get a clear idea of their duplicity. I do so for the benefit of those who may
have not read this in view of its importance as an invaluable source of
information.
I quote,
‘It was in
2000, that the Editors of Executive Intelligence Review requested the then
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to review the British Government’s role
in supporting international terrorism ”…” this request came largely on the
grounds of the British Government asking for the safe passage of Ahmed Omar
Sheikh to Britain claiming that they would not prosecute him despite him being
sentenced in India for 5 years in 1998.
If the US feels
that Britain has been sponsoring international terrorism it has only to enforce
the Congressional acts and it is interesting to know why Britain escapes investigation
but then who said the US has a clean record where funding international
terrorism remains a hot topic. When G8 nations account for over 90% of
manufacture and sale of arms we need not look very far for the culprits and
source for where terrorists get their arms and weapons from. Of course the
funds used largely arise from drug trade and other illicit activity for which
again these powerful states are in a position to dislodge, if they have the
will to do so and relieve the world of all the scrooges that prevail.
Let’s take a few
examples ”…” In 1996, the US military base in Saudi Arabia was bombed killing
19 US soldiers, M Massari, Head of London-based Committee for the Defense of
Legitimate Rights promised more such strikes yet the British Government granted
Massari exceptional leave” (4 year refugee permit) to remain in Britain.
Massari is closely attached to Osama bin Laden as well and would anyone be
surprised that he continues to maintain a residence in wealthy Wembly and
London, London also happens to be the head quarters of Bin Laden’s Advise and
Reform Commission. Then, again the LTTE’s headquarters was also in the UK and
LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham and wife were openly canvassing for the
LTTE terror movement without any problems by the UK Government.
Also that same
year, a former British M15 officer (David Shayler) admitted that British
Security Services financed £100,000 to a London based Islamic terrorist group
to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi.
Would it not be
correct to assume that it was because the British Government had funded
terrorist activity that in 1997 a Tory MP, Nigel Waterson felt the need to
introduce legislation (Conspiracy and Incitement bill) to ban foreign
terrorists from operating on British soil? This bill came soon after the
scandal over Britain providing safe haven for Massari. However, Labor MR George
Galloway blocked the bill by claiming that the Bill will change political
asylum in this country in a profound and dangerous way. It will change a state
of affairs that has existed since Napoleon’s time”¦.We are all in favor of
controlling terrorism in Britain. Surely not a single honorable Member has any
truck with terrorism here, but we are talking about terrorism in other
countries”¦the bill will criminalize such people, even though they have not
broken any law in Britain or caused any harm to the Queen’s peace in her
realm”.
A year later, we can recall the massacre of
tourists in Egypt where 62 died perpetrated by Gamaa al-Islamiya whose leaders
have been provided political asylum in Britain and calls for extradition by
Egyptian authorities even summoning the British Ambassador and demanding that
Britain stop providing safe haven to terrorists””¦even going so far as to say
that Egypt identified Britain as the main center for radical plotting
assassinations”. Egypt did not stop there”¦they even opened a State
Information Service (Call to Combat Terrorism) on the country’s official
website & listed some of the wasted masterminds of terrorism who are currently
enjoying secure and convenient asylum in some world capitals”.
Of the 14 listed
wanted” men linked to the Luxor massacre the top 7 were domiciled in London.
What about the US terror list released in 1996 with 30 Foreign Terrorist
Organizations banned from operating on US soil also finds 6 groups all
headquartered in London including Sri Lanka’s LTTE ”…” the others include
Al-Jihad (Egypt), Hamas, Armed Islamic Group, Kurdish Workers Party & the
Islamic Group. The UK was to go a step further in 1997 by granting permission
to Abel Abdel Majid and Adel Tawfiq al-Sirri of the Islamic Group to open fund
raising & media offices in London under International Bureau for the
Defense of the Egyptian People.
This was despite
Majid being implicated in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group responsible for the assassination of
Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf in 1992 not surprisingly also has its head
quarters in London. The US FBI identifies the LTTE as the world’s most
deadliest terrorist organization but it too has been holding its international
secretariat in London since 1984 openly canvassing its cause as well as
illicitly raising funds and smear campaigns against a democratic Government.
Most of the orders for assassinations are delivered via London. So when
London-based terrorist groups plans and launches operations to destabilize
countries we should not be in the least surprised.
This happened to
Yemen in 1998 but the Yemeni authorities were faulted when several of the
kidnapped foreigners got killed in the rescue operation. The Yemeni authorities
were however immediate in their response by sending back British Scotland Yard
officials who had been called to investigate and even went so far as to withdraw
its application for British Commonwealth membership.
The connection
to Britain by internationally established terror groups is when locating its
international bases which all happen to be in London. Egypt, Israel (UK
response to accusation of Hamas involvement in several attacks on Israeli’s
”…””We have seen no proof to support allegations that funds raised by the
Hamas, in the UK are used directly in support of terrorist acts elsewhere”),
France (Armed Islamic Group’s ordered a terror war against France), Algeria,
Peru (demanded extradition of Adolfo Hector Olaechea but refused by British
authorities), Turkey, Germany (following PKK leader Apo Ocalan calling for the
assassination of German Chancellor Kohl) and India following the hijacking of
Indian Airlines in 1999.
The accusations
against Britain from foreign Governments finally got media attention with the
Daily Telegraph in 1999 claiming Britain is now an international center for
Islamic militancy on a huge scale”¦and the capital is the home to a bewildering
variety of radical Islamic fundamentalist movements, many of which make no
secret of their commitments to violence and terrorism”.
Thus, we can
safely conclude that terrorists from Britain emerge in every hotbed of
terrorist extremism around the world and therefore should we also conclude that
the terror taking place in these countries is perhaps by no accident? This then
implies that fundamentalist extremism in the case of the Islamic terrorists and
the separatist agenda in the case of LTTE is part and parcel of British policy
linked with charities” that raise and fund terror campaigns. These
accusations against Britain has been documented by a British think tank called
Policy Exchange where it cites how the Labor Party and the Foreign Service have
promoted radical Islamic terrorism even ensuring that extremist literature is
subverting mosques in the UK. Yet, the Muslim community in Britain comprises
Muslims from Asian countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and India and not so
much from Saudi Arabia. So why the British legal system protects the
Anglo-Saudi financing of terror and why should British intelligence collaborate
with terrorists and their recruiters?
Abu Qatada, a
notorious Al-Qaeda operative in London was granted asylum in 1994 ”…” the
Times of London exposed Qatada as being a M15 double agent in 2004- these
dealings obviously to ensure that while terror may be unleashed in other
quarters Britain remains untouched or undamaged”¦then what happened in 2005?
Britain may have wanted terrorists not to bite the hand that fed them but what
if they come home to roost? The irony in the aftermath of the attacks on
Britain was that while the entire British police were out chasing for the
culprits the British Secret Service was all out to hide them! This obviously
equates to mean that despite the anti-terror hype and the counter-terror
collaborations the Brits have an ugly habit of providing safe havens for
terrorists in Britain.
Therefore, it
would be no exaggeration when we say that the world’s most feared terrorists
are all creations of the intelligence services of Governments who have directed
their emergence into society as toys to instill terror. The CIA created Osama
bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda, the CIA and German intelligence (BND) trained the
Kosovo Liberation Army (supported by Al Qaeda) in the 1990s (Balkans) to
support NATO’s war effort against Yugoslavia. A Report published in 1999 by the
US defense intelligence agency (DIA) that MI6 was asked to arrange training for
the KLA ”…” this training was sub-contracted to 2 British private security
firms who began trained from bases in Northern Albania. So much so for these
passionate and patriotic calls to end terrorism.
So if we are
alarmed to hear that virtuous Britain has been creating and harboring
terrorists we should not be surprised to hear Britain’s complicity in torture.
The surprise is meritorious in the light of these very officials demanding Sri
Lanka to be investigated for war crimes, human rights violations, denied
concessions while these very nations are deeply involved in rendition of
suspects to unknown destinations and countries to be tortured and abused with
no care for their human rights and has the UN Secretary General been the least
concerned” about these goings on or has the UN Special Rappateur Prof. Alston
ever picked up US, UK and its allies for their HR abuses? What have they done
about the British territory of Diego Garcia being used for rendition of
suspected terrorists? The British however continue to deny these allegations
even though former SAS officers like Ben Griffin (2006) revealed that Iraqi’s
and Afghans had been captured by British and US Special Forces and rendered to
prisons where they faced torture. We are unaware of any individuals originally
detained by UK authorities and subsequently rendered by the USA” ”…” Kim
Howells, December 2005 (response to parliamentary question)
However David
Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary admitted that 2 CIA aircrafts transporting
abducted prisoners landed in UK in 2002 for refueling en route to Diego Garcia
in the Indian Ocean. The admission also recalls Lord Gilbert’s comments (of UK
role in Kosovo) in the House of Commons that the Rambouillet terms offered to
the Yugoslav delegation had been absolutely intolerable” and designed to
provoke war.
The 1994 public
inquiry presided by Lord Justice Scott revealed the illegal British arms sales
to Iraq ”…” this could not have taken place without the explicit approvals of
top political figures, very senior civil servants from the Foreign Office,
Ministry of Defense and the Dept of Trade and Industry ”…” in sum the top
echelons of the British Government.
Going back to
1965-66 if we recall the blood bath that brought Gen Suharto to power in
Indonesia, the scale of British complicity will emerge. The Labor Government
under Harold Wilson supplied logistics and intelligence, warships to support
Suharto and close upon a million perished as a result of Britain. Documents are
to also reveal how Britain acted to ensure that millions perished in Rwanda and
ensured through its diplomatic weight that the UN did not use words like
genocide”. Therefore, Genocide” and other rants attributed to UN emissaries
are obviously with the explicit nods by powerful nations.
The UN too has a
Consolidated List ”…” the list includes many for plotting to blow up passenger
airlines, bomb US embassies, assassinate foreign dignitaries and they are all
British citizens residing in different parts of the UK. David Davies,
Conservative MP for Monmouth and a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee,
said: It’s quite outrageous for these people to carry on living here, many of
them on benefits. The Home Secretary should have the right to either lock them
up or throw them out of the country, but for that to happen requires a change
in the Human Rights Act.”
With the release
of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel al-Megrahi by British authorities’ fresh
allegations against the British Govt surfaced. The US Govt was outraged by the
manner Megrahi was welcomed in Libya by Muammar Gaddafi.
Therefore, we
can assume that the US and UK do not see eye to eye all the time and it is
extremely clear that the British Governments have been applying secret services
for their own benefits. With at small terrorist listing it is no surprise that
London is the home to most of the world’s deadliest terrorists and London is
also the base for the offices of these terror groups.
We were told
that there is a war on terror” ”…” unfortunately, we do not know against
whom. Is it because nations like the UK and US prefers to have an almost
invisible” enemy giving them a carte blanche to descend upon nations. What
these powerful western nations call terrorism may be an inevitable response to
this injustice & certainly not when the maxim followed is one man’s
terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”.
Virtuous Britain
will be smothered with embarrassment when the lists of its links to terror,
assassination bids of heads of states, establishing of puppet leaders for
pro-Western Governments emerges and well aware of the crimes” injustices”
human rights” violations Britain has been committing over the years Miliband
or any other Brutish should dare not point fingers without getting their act in
order first.
The Western
block must understand that the their hegemony and dominance are not eternal and
they are also undergoing drastic changes as any other phenomena as it had been
aptly demonstrated over the recent past with increasing financial crises,
unprecedented unemployment, deficit budgets and falling economic growth etc. As
such the dominance of the present core states in the west and their allies both
in the world economy and the political arena is now in the decline. No one can
stop this trend as it is only the natural repetition of the evolutionary
process in world history. Therefore as Huntington has warned the present ”Core
States” should at least now face this reality and abstain from intervention in
internal conflicts in other civilizations. They should also get rid of their
dominant mentality and admit that the world is multinational and multicultural
and renounce universalism. They also should realize that all nations,
irrespective of their geographical size, as much as the individuals do in
modern society where there are no slaves and masters, have equal status. The
other thing is today the world is so interdependent and become so small no
country, however big it may be, can behave like a Trojan horse or a bull in a
china shop. No one should be surprised if the next war would be a one between
this world and another? Therefore these so-called present day core states
should adopt a rational and pragmatic attitude regarding the independence and
the right to manage their own matters without bullying the smaller nations like
us and blatantly interfering with their internal matters.
Finally this is
the best message I would like to give to all western countries and their allies
in the south eastern corner of the globe and who are unnecessarily interfering
with the internal matters of Sri Lanka. If this nuisance is not going to stop
forthwith we have only one option that is to get in to an Afrp-Asian UNO, a
new alliance with China and Russia block, as Professor L. Jayasooriya has
pointed out.
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