{"id":107786,"date":"2020-10-20T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=107786"},"modified":"2020-10-20T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T22:31:40","slug":"friends-live-with-us-through-both-prosperity-and-adversity-they-are-like-portraits-painted-on-walls-and-they-never-turn-back-on-you-salalihini-sandesaya-the-stralings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/10\/20\/friends-live-with-us-through-both-prosperity-and-adversity-they-are-like-portraits-painted-on-walls-and-they-never-turn-back-on-you-salalihini-sandesaya-the-stralings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFriends live with us through both prosperity and adversity. They are like portraits painted on walls and they never turn back on you\u201d ( Salalihini Sandesaya-” THE STRALING\u2019S MESSAGE \u201c)"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

When the\nrecent top level Chinese delegation visited Sri Lanka they had a touching\nmessage for Sri Lanka. The message was.. CHINA WILL STAND WITH SRI LANKA TO PROTECT ITS INDEPENDENCE,\nSOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AT INTERNATIONAL FORA\u201d .  In our present day world of varied challenges\nmuch to our discomfort , we are faced with lack of reciprocity and\ninterdependence of world and regional powers, In such a scenario the Chinese\nassurance that they will stand by Sri Lanka in the world fora is commendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contrast this response with the attitude adopted by some of\nour friends such as the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, India and the EU. In\nmany  international fora Sri Lanka has\nbeen compelled to be at the receiving end of these countries with regard to so\ncalled HR violations, war crimes, \u2018genocide\u2019, institutional violence,\nharassment of minorities, police brutality,  lack of judicial independence, religious\nintolerance, absence of media freedom etc. Further , in all these countries the\nworld\u2019s most violent terrorist organization, the LTTE -which killed thousands and\nterrorized 20 million Sri Lankans for more than 20 years- or their font\norganizations are allowed to function and advocate HR issues and are sometimes even\nrecognized by the Governments. The terrorist flag is openly allowed to display\nand fund raising to destabilize Sri Lanka is permitted.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When one analyses the charges levelled at Sri Lanka it is\nvery clear that most of the charges are fabricated by the interested parties\nand galvanized by the NGOs which are  in\nfact involved in the business of living by infecting soft areas of developing\ncountries, These nations and the NGOs conveniently opt to forget about the massive\nHR violations and crimes perpetrated  by themselves\nincluding brutal violence against the minorities in their own countries within\nthe last few decades which had brought untold misery to many millions of affected\npeople, They have the audacity to pressurize a few countries at every\nopportunity to gain their geo- political objectives by creating insecurity and\nuncertainty in the subject countries,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unfortunate that amidst this depressing approach of the\nWest that there are forces within the subject developing countries such as Sri\nLanka awaiting on the sidelines who are keen on picking up bones which are\nthrown at them by the West and attempting to mislead the people, We cannot\nafford to deceive ourselves by hopefully hanging on to the dead ropes dangled\nbefore us while our self-respect is attacked and destroyed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is true that Sri Lanka is facing many odds and is forced to grapple with many an option, But, the political reality should lead us to the friends who will not only help us financially but be honest and stand by justice and fair-play. We cannot wallow but we have to select the right path in international affairs by accepting the hand stretched towards us and decide to convey our opinion to the so called friends for them to mend their unfriendly, unjust attitudes towards Sri Lanka-\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA\u00a0 When the recent top level Chinese delegation visited Sri Lanka they had a touching message for Sri Lanka. The message was.. CHINA WILL STAND WITH SRI LANKA TO PROTECT ITS INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AT INTERNATIONAL FORA\u201d .  In our present day world of varied challenges much to our discomfort , we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}