{"id":111579,"date":"2021-02-11T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111579"},"modified":"2021-02-11T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:49:40","slug":"who-are-the-core-group-against-sri-lanka-at-unhrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/11\/who-are-the-core-group-against-sri-lanka-at-unhrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Core Group against Sri Lanka at UNHRC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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History\nwill one day be witness to the lies, deceit and hypocrisies taking place in the\nHalls of the UN and in particular the UNHRC. What Sri Lanka must repeatedly\nexert is that all of the resolutions since 2009 claiming to be based on how Sri\nLanka ended the conflict and claiming to have intentionally killed 40,000\npeople does not make any reference to these allegations but are following\nintrusive and non-conflict related demands that violate the UN Charter. All\nthese nations passing resolution against Sri Lanka must seriously ask\nthemselves what they did to prevent LTTE committing crimes over 30 years. Why\nare these countries suddenly bothered about how the conflict was fought after\nLTTE\u2019s defeat this itself is a precedent being created by the UN and will\nimpact other countries in the future as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At\none time UK was the world\u2019s biggest empire, invading and ruling all but 22\ncountries in the world. UK\u2019s crimes thus constitute that which were committed\nin the name of the King\/Queen by the UK military who ruled invaded nations,\nmurdered the natives, destroyed their cultures, livelihoods and plundered their\nresources to build their nations back home and are now making money from\ndisplaying stolen artefacts in their museums while their Queen adorns herself\nwith riches and gems stolen from the former colonies. UK\u2019s rule of Sri Lanka\nended only in 1972 with the Republican Constitution. From 1948 Sri Lanka\naccepted Dominion Status, nominal independence as the Queen remained Head of\nState and UK Privy Council was the highest court and military presence remained\nin Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The\ncolonial crimes committed by the British in then Ceylon have never been\nacknowledged, accounted or compensated. This is the very country preaching\nhuman rights. The crimes committed by colonial Britain come nowhere near what\nthey accuse countries off today. The Uva-Wellassa massacre resulted in the UK\nGovernor Brownrigg declaring to kill anything that moved and that order\nincluded even babies. The scorched-earth policy meant burning everything that\nwas in sight with aim to start natives to death. These were crimes against\nhumanity, these were real genocide, not the handful of propaganda filled-\nevidence less fairytales hiring witnesses and training them to cry to a camera\ntaking place today. India that joins the UK in its modern geopolitical bullying\nmay well like to go through how India suffered under colonial Britain where\nBritish governors publicly said the only good Indian is a dead Indian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2012\/11\/british-colonial-war-crimes-unpunished.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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British Colonial Army crimes in Sinhale (Sri Lanka): Present day preachers were mass murderers<\/a><\/blockquote>