{"id":112294,"date":"2021-03-03T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=112294"},"modified":"2021-03-03T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:54:00","slug":"the-lines-are-drawn-and-the-country-should-go-forth-boldly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/03\/the-lines-are-drawn-and-the-country-should-go-forth-boldly\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LINES ARE DRAWN AND THE COUNTRY SHOULD GO FORTH BOLDLY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

At\nthe UNHRC meeting the true friends of Sri Lanka emerged to speak and defend the\ncountry battered mercilessly for defeating the world most brutal terrorist\norganization i.e., Tamil Tiger terrorists in 2009, who held 20 million Sri\nLankans to ransom for well over 25 years. \nThe leading the Sri Lanka bashing were the UK. Germany. Canada,\nSwitzerland, Netherlands. Belgium and the USA, all of them having a chequered\nhistory in violating human rights at different times. India, our friendly\nneighbour while thankfully taking a fair distance from the punitive stance of\nothers opted to emphasize on the rights of Sri Lankan Tamils and their\n\u2018aspirations\u2019 insisting on the FULL implementation of the 13 A\u201d India should be\nrequested to point out whether any Tamil person in Sri Lanka is deprived from\nenjoying a basic right because he or she is being purely a Tamil.  On the 13th<\/sup> A which was thrust on\nSri Lanka along with the so-called Indo-Sri Lanka agreement, most Sri Lankans\nare of the view that it was a faulty restructuring effort of Sri Lanka\u2019s\ngovernment by India and the Police and Land powers under the 13 A are a direct\nthreat to the sovereign Sri Lanka. Further, the Provincial government system\nhas not benefited Sri Lanka in any measurable manner and had been an exercise\nin colossal wastage of hard-earned funds of the central government. As regards\naspirations, we are amazed how we can consider ONLY the aspirations of Tamils\nas all other ethnic groups and the individuals too have aspirations and it will\nbe impossible to walk that talk. We need further training in the recognition of\naspirations of different groups from India and we pray for further  comments from the HR specialists in India how\nthey have reconciled the aspirations of other than Hindu religious groups,\nSheiks, Kashmiris and other minority groups on Northern most India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But,\nmany nations at UNHCR rejected the proposition of the Sri Lanka bashers who\ndirectly and indirectly were supportive of the LTTE armed insurrection and the\nseparatism threatening the unitary Sri Lanka. They also rejected the \u2018the\npreventive prescription\u2019 of the secretary General Bachelot. The nations who\nsupported Sri Lanka stood for the principle of non- interference in the internal\naffairs of a democratic country. Any weaknesses in Sri Lankan affairs should be\nallowed to be rectified domestically in keeping with the constitutional\nprovisions of the country rather than to be dictated and decided upon by the\nholier than thou sloganeers. Most of the nations who attempt to foist their\nplan on Sri Lanka are from the Western bloc who killed and maimed millions of\npersons living in the colonized countries and subsequently destroyed other\nnations as pawns of the world power games. Their adherence \u2018to the human\nrights are completely at variance with their practices on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now,\nSri Lanka should re-examine their directions and resolve to work with the\nfriendly nations who supported her to extricate from the trap laid out by the countries\nwho desire an unstable Sri Lanka. The Government and the people should resolve\nto reduce our dependence on Sri Lanka bashers and re-design our imports to suit\nthe geo-political reality and to avoid any plot to impose sanctions by the\nwounded nations. Time has arrived to consider the nation\u2019s priorities by\ncurtailing the luxuries even for a given period. We should try to get our\nrequirements from the friendly nations and try to improve our trading\nrelationship with our friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This the ONLY way to extend our hand to REBUILD a new world order is to be less dependent on the predatory countries who always insist on their pound of flesh from the developing nations. While we thank the President, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the Government for having rejected the co-sponsorship of resolution 30\/1 at UNHRC, we urge the Government to plan to reshape our trade and foreign relations to play our role as an independent member of the international community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA At the UNHRC meeting the true friends of Sri Lanka emerged to speak and defend the country battered mercilessly for defeating the world most brutal terrorist organization i.e., Tamil Tiger terrorists in 2009, who held 20 million Sri Lankans to ransom for well over 25 years.  The leading the Sri Lanka bashing were […]<\/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-112294","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\/112294","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=112294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}