{"id":40829,"date":"2015-01-13T03:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40829"},"modified":"2015-01-13T03:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T10:12:28","slug":"tinge-of-hypocrisy-in-gesture-of-solidarity-with-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/13\/tinge-of-hypocrisy-in-gesture-of-solidarity-with-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinge of hypocrisy in gesture of solidarity with France"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Rupesinghe Sydney, Australia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

While the leaders of Europe and other countries hold hands with France in their hour of sorrow and unite against acts of terrorism, it is timely to remember that no such gesture of solidarity and comfort was extended to the people of Sri Lanka when they were the target of worse atrocities over a period of thirty years.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Suicide bombers roamed the country, a Prime Minister, a President, and dozens of politicians were assassinated. Entire villages were attacked and over tens of thousands of people ruthlessly slaughtered by the vicious terrorist Tamil Tigers (LTTE). People left for work and school uncertain if they would return home safely. Families were forced to travel separately for fear of their bus being blasted by bombs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0And the world chose to ignore this rampage and turned a blind eye to the carnage.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Worse. Britain, Canada and France actually sheltered and protected the criminals who masterminded, financed, procured arms and trained the terrorist combat units. Anton Balasingham, a former employee of the British High Commission in Colombo, was given free rein by Britain to act as the field marshal of the terror campaign from his London home. His Australian-born wife, Adele, was the prime trainer of the youth suicide squad, who personally hung the necklaces of cyanide round their necks to be used if they were captured. She is still protected in Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0When this carnage was finally being brought to an end by a determined Sri Lanka Government in May 2009 it was none other than British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kourchner who went to Sri Lanka as emissaries of their Tamil terrorist constituents and demanded that President Rajapakse call an immediate ceasefire. Their demand was met with deserved contempt and a period of peace was ushered in to the benefit of all the people of Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0British, Canadian, French, Norwegian and American politicians then switched to supporting these murderous terrorists when they cleverly shed their martial gear and donned mantles as human-rights campaigners. The British-based Global Tamil Forum, dedicated to destabilising Sri Lanka, holds its meetings in the House of Commons. It has given lavish donations to the Conservative Party. David Cameron’s behaviour at the Commonwealth Head of Government meeting in Sri Lanka in 2013 was a sterling demonstration of a puppet dancing to the tune of his terrorist pipers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper bowed to his Tamil constituents and boycotted the event to gain votes in crucial Toronto electorates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0So l, and thousands of others like me, are viewing these gestures of solidarity and comfort with France with a grain of salt, recognising the undercurrent of hypocrisy exhibited by such Western leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Meanwhile Boko Haram is running havoc in Nigeria. Britain and other Western countries sent “advisers” when 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April 2014. What became of their efforts? Since then killings have multiplied tenfold. Indications are it will get worse. Much worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0But there are no alarm bells, no gestures of solidarity. Only empty rhetoric for a sound bite on the Western media.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0George Rupesinghe<\/span><\/p>\n

Sydney, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Rupesinghe Sydney, Australia While the leaders of Europe and other countries hold hands with France in their hour of sorrow and unite against acts of terrorism, it is timely to remember that no such gesture of solidarity and comfort was extended to the people of Sri Lanka when they were the target of worse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829","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=40829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}