{"id":111873,"date":"2021-02-21T02:32:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T09:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111873"},"modified":"2021-02-21T02:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T09:32:49","slug":"20-desperate-un-officials-attempt-to-use-sri-lanka-to-create-a-precedent-that-un-members-should-not-allow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/21\/20-desperate-un-officials-attempt-to-use-sri-lanka-to-create-a-precedent-that-un-members-should-not-allow\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Desperate UN officials attempt to use Sri Lanka to create a PRECEDENT that UN Members should not allow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some held portfolios during the thick of LTTE terror. Some held portfolios that could have stopped LTTE terror. Some held portfolios but simply watched LTTE carnage in silent. All of them did nothing to end the suffering 20million populace suffered when LTTE bombed and committed acts of terror. All of them woke up only after LTTE was militarily defeated or on the verge of defeat and all of them are now demanding answers for how the war was fought completely erasing their inaction during LTTE terror. What are these desperados\u2019 really up to? What should UN Member States read from these actions? When a UN that did nothing to stop terror suddenly comes out with the rule books AFTER the terror is over, it only showcases the UN system is being used to CREATE A PRECEDENCE with Sri Lanka as a guinea pig. The Third World must rally behind Sri Lanka not for anything else, but to safeguard their own nations from becoming target of UN bullies if their attempt to subjugate Sri Lanka into the UN succeeds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The laws of war and justice was re-written according to geopolitical demands with 9\/11. Thereafter, concepts, formulas and templates took the form of what suited powerful nations & their political agendas. So accountability, justice, human rights, democracy, freedoms etc came to be determined on what suited their agendas. The UN system and NGO network became the mechanisms used to fast forward these objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who did nothing to stop Rwanda genocide \u2013 where actual dead bodies was seen to count cannot talk about any invisible genocide in Sri Lanka \u2013 where accusers have failed to present names of 40,000 dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who did nothing when the Libyan Leader was killed in front of the whole world and watched by the world\u2019s most powerful nation whose officials simply laughed at his death \u2013 cannot talk about justice or accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who after destroying Libya went on to destroy Syria, bombing a country to the stone age, with goal to dislodge its leader, cannot send petitions against Sri Lanka, if they simply sat in their official chair and did nothing against it using the powers of their office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those that watch the suffering of the Iraqi\u2019s Afghans, Darfur, and those who know how ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda etc are funded and trained cannot just take Sri Lanka\u2019s Armed Forces and demand their penalization and ridicule on the world stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who are watching Yemen\u2019s humanitarian sorrow, the malnutrition children, the hungry adults and pass the buck because of the countries involved in it are too powerful have no moral right to be only pointing fingers at Sri Lanka because it is a small nation with weak leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/chrgj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Sowing-the-Seeds-of-Conflict.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Name<\/strong><\/td>Role \/ Member<\/strong><\/td>Tenure<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1.      <\/strong>Juan Manuel Santos<\/strong><\/td>The Elders<\/strong>Former President of Colombia<\/strong>Nobel Peace Prize Winner<\/strong><\/td>2010 \u2013 2018<\/strong>2016<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Former UNHRC heads<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Role \/ Member<\/strong><\/td>Tenure<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2.      <\/strong>Mary Robinson<\/strong><\/td>The Elders<\/strong>Former President of Ireland<\/strong>Former UNHRC Head<\/strong><\/td>1990 \u2013 1997<\/strong>1997 \u2013 2002<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.      <\/strong>Louise Arbour<\/strong><\/td>Former UNHRC Head<\/strong><\/td>2004 \u2013 2008<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
4.      <\/strong>Navanethem Pillay<\/strong><\/td>Former UNHRC Head<\/strong><\/td>2008 \u2013 2014<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
5.      <\/strong>Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein<\/strong><\/td>Former UNHRC Head<\/strong><\/td>2014 \u2013 2018<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Former Special Rapporteur mandate-holders <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/td>Role \/ Member<\/strong><\/td>Tenure<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
6.      <\/strong>Charles Petrie<\/strong><\/td>Former United Nations Assistant Secretary- General, Head, Secretary General\u2019s Internal Review Panel on United Nation\u2019s Actions in Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/td>2012<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
7.      <\/strong>Philip Alston<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions<\/strong><\/td>2004 \u2013 2010<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
8.      <\/strong>Manfred Nowak <\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on torture & other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment<\/strong><\/td>2004 \u2013 2010<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
9.      <\/strong>Gay MacDougall<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on minority issues<\/strong><\/td>2005 \u2013 2011<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
10.   <\/strong>Jan Eliasson<\/strong><\/td>Deputy Secretary General UN<\/strong><\/td>2012 \u2013 2016<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
11.   <\/strong>Adama Dieng<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Adviser to UNSG on the Prevention of Genocide<\/strong><\/td>2012 \u2013 2020<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
12.   <\/strong>Christof Heyns<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions<\/strong><\/td>2010 \u2013 2016<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
13.   <\/strong>Juan E. Mendez<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on torture & other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment<\/strong><\/td>2010 \u2013 2016<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
14.   <\/strong>Ben Emmerson<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism<\/strong><\/td>2011 \u2013 2017<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
15.   <\/strong>Maina Kiai<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association<\/strong><\/td>2011 \u2013 2017<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
16.   <\/strong>Pablo de Greiff<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence<\/strong><\/td>2012-2018<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
17.   <\/strong>David Kaye<\/strong><\/td>Former Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression<\/strong><\/td>2014 \u2013 2020<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Privately commissioned Panel by UNSG<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
18.   <\/strong>Marzuki Darusman <\/strong>19.   <\/strong>Steven Ratner <\/strong>20.   <\/strong>Yasmin Sooka <\/strong> <\/td>Secretary General\u2019s Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka <\/strong><\/td>2010-2011 <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Juan Manuel Santos <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leader of Colombia from 2010-2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombia\u2019s conflict began in May 1964 between FARC rebels & Columbian Govt\/Army and ended in 2016 the same time Juan Santos was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for bringing to end 50 years of conflict that claimed over 220,000 lives majority civilian and has displaced 5million (almost half being children) \u2013 between 1985 and 2012 creating worlds 2nd<\/sup>largest IDPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2003, U.S. involvement in Colombia meant 40 U.S. agencies and 4,500 people, including contractors, working from U.S. Embassy in Bogota, the the largest U.S. embassy in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/investigative\/2013\/12\/21\/covert-action-in-colombia\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, UN itself says 85 rebels killed after 2016 Peace Deal https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-46726118<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights days before LTTE blew up MV Cordiality ship killing 5 Chinese crew members. What did she do against LTTE? Chair of The Elders, member of Club Madrid, Has links to Eric Solheim who appointed her Chairman of Development Assistance Committee in 2016. In December 1997 after her visit to Rwanda as UNHRC head the Rwandan govt accused her of \u2018blatant distortions\u2019 https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/robinson-accused-of-distortions-1.135772<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louise Arbour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appointed Chief Prosecutor for Rwanda & Yugoslavia. Her indictment of a sitting head \u2013 Serbian Leader Milosevic made history though he was exonerated of war crimes only after his controversial death in a prison. As UNHRC head she visited Sri Lanka in 2007 October. Since 2009 she was President of International Crisis Group. It was during her period as UNHRC head that LTTE increased recruitment of child soldiers and even assassinated Sri Lanka\u2019s Foreign Minister \u2013 Lakshman Kadiragamar all during an internationally mediate cease fire agreement. What did she do to question LTTE accountability?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navanethem Pillay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an ethnic Tamil, it was only right that she recused herself from handing Sri Lanka, which she did not. Her statements foretell the biased nature of her actions against Sri Lanka during her tenure as UNHRC head. When she appears on Mullaiwaikkal Memorials distorting her on statements, this proves the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tamil ethnic bias and potential conflict of interest disqualifies Navi Pillay from conducting investigations against Sri Lanka<\/a><\/blockquote>