{"id":56284,"date":"2016-07-05T23:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T05:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56284"},"modified":"2016-07-05T15:44:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T22:44:46","slug":"unhrc-modern-incarnation-of-feared-inquisition-sri-lanka-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/05\/unhrc-modern-incarnation-of-feared-inquisition-sri-lanka-case\/","title":{"rendered":"UNHRC &#8211; Modern Incarnation of Christian Inquisition: Sri Lanka case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We are trying our best to understand the mentality behind the manner that the UN &amp; its bodies function. The stark bias is nothing no one can today ignore. The callous manner that the UN blatantly ignores crimes committed by a handful of very powerful nations while allowing these very nations to use UN forums to bring others to book is baffling. We can only find explanation for this behaviour in comparing historical patterns of thinking and actions to the current behaviour and conclude that the mentality of the inquisition where the operational rule of law was <strong><em>\u2018we can commit what we like, you can too so long as you tow the line but if you don\u2019t you will suffer consequences\u2019<\/em><\/strong> appears to be the DNA that has been pervading the rule of law preached by the UN, UNHRC and other bodies leading to the perversion of justice. This is the only explanation we can conclude for the manner that UN and in particular the UNHRC is pushing for war crimes tribunals and foreign judges when clearly no war crimes have been committed by Sri Lankan forces. All legal opinions have been thrown out and fairy-tale reports suffice to bring a nation and its forces to be crucified so that constitutional and other internal changes within Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereign structure can be made to facilitate the incursions that would turn Sri Lanka into a client state. Behind the racism &amp; bias there is a bigger plan.<\/p>\n<p>For over 700 years the Inquisition continued starting in 1231 A.D and the last execution ending in only 1826. The Vatican\u2019s Congregation of the Inquisition was formally abolished in 1908 but became renamed as the Holy Office which became the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in 1960s and was headed by Cardinal Josef Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We believe the UN\/UNHRC are mere extensions of the colonial goal to subjugate, plunder and continue to \u2018civilize\u2019 non-Christian world and this is the reason behind the UN\u2019s abject racism upon all non-whites except those non-whites who wish to pretend and act like they are white! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You will find no non-white within the UN hierarchy who can act according to his own conscience rooted to his roots!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the Christian Inquisition was the Vatican\u2019s response to anyone who did not believe Christian dogma, the UNHRC\u2019s gavel comes down on any nation that does not conform to its dictates.<\/li>\n<li>If the rule of law and human rights during the Inquisition was one sided applying to all those on the side of the Inquisitors, all those not aligned to UNHRC and those that steer UNHRC will become targeted through rules and laws that they create.<\/li>\n<li>If Inquisitors went out into regions, questioned people intensively, conducted tribunals and meted out punishments, how different is it to the UNHRC sending its rapporteurs and special envoys only to targeted nations to doctor the case against them?<\/li>\n<li>If the Inquisitors were excellent record-keepers but their execution records are all \u2018lost\u2019 is it any surprise that the West\u2019s crimes almost always get swept under the carpet using some legal jargon created exclusively to absolve them!<\/li>\n<li>If torture was an integral part of the inquisitorial process and used by the secular courts of the time with the Church even having guidelines for torture how is it different from the waterboarding &amp; other torture methods legally permissible by US authorities.<\/li>\n<li>If the Inquisition was persecution institutionalized for targeted groups what difference is it when UN &amp; Its bodies are presently going after only selected people and nations?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The countries that point fingers demanding others to uphold religious freedom were responsible for burning thousands of people at the stake.<\/p>\n<p>The state of mind behind the Inquisition is no different to the European policies and conduct from plundering nations, confiscating their territory, extermination of entire races, the religious crusades that killed thousands, the transatlantic slave trade and enslavement of the black, brown and yellow people. The scale of these crimes very few people know. History has hidden them because the perpetrators do not wish the world to know these crimes. These very nations have the audacity to demand apology and acknowledgement and reconciliation when none of their sins have been atoned for. This is the logic that we today question. How can nations with soiled hands talk with high moral ground? How can nations with blood on their hands with no apology or compensation for their crimes preach to others when they have committed and continue to commit worse crimes?<\/p>\n<p>In 2012 at the UNHRC it did not matter that the Sri Lankan troops defeated a terrorist movement and freed a nation from terrorism, the Christian countries voted en masse against Sri Lanka (24 countries voting for the resolution, 15 against and 8 countries abstaining) The voting patterns was not hard to fathom. India sided with the majority of Christian countries at that vote thus signaling the presence of sepoy mentality pervading the Indian establishment. The behavior of India, Japan, South Korea is a glowing example of how leaders of even great nations can suffer colonial mindset inspite of their greatness.<\/p>\n<p>The other countries that voted for the resolution were countries that are easily manipulated with blackmail and threats to withdraw foreign aid and technical assistance. Such is the diplomacy that prevails inside the UN! The successive resolutions that followed took a similar pattern. The bias of the UN is such that to date no Muslim, no Buddhist, no Hindu, no Jain has even been considered for the position of the UN Secretary General. Asians selected are either Christian or people with sepoy mentality ever ready to serve the white masters for their own personal \u2018self-benefit\u2019 and \u2018self-advancement\u2019 a quality imbibed through colonial education system upon all former colonies.<\/p>\n<p>This is the jungle law that prevails and they introduce kangaroo courts to bring to book all those who do not conform to their will.<\/p>\n<p>These laws are all written by former colonial occupiers and the law is simple to understand. All laws will apply only to those that are non-European or those that do not conform to the will of the Anglo-American rules. That was how Hitler, Milosovic and others became punished. All those however unfavourable who are willing to tow the line are also accepted \u2013 that is how Saudi the worse oppressor of rights and freedoms is one of the key allies of the West and can even influence the UN and have its name removed. Such luxuries are not afforded to other nations unless they have money to throw into the UN kitty. So money rules the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka became crucified for ignoring calls to stop the war against LTTE. Sri Lanka\u2019s former leaders didn\u2019t follow orders and therefore they must be punished is the norm on which the rule of UNHRC is being applied.<\/p>\n<p>There is no other explanation that can be given to understand why the UNHRC is going out of its way to push for war crimes trials against Sri Lanka that conducted a military operation to free its citizens from the menace of terrorism and in doing so saved close to 300,000 as against the ghost figures claimed to be dead. The international arguments for war crimes even referring to case laws all hold that Sri Lanka has not committed war crimes and yet the UNHRC is persisting simply because Sri Lanka defied the West\u2019s orders and as punishment Sri Lanka has to pay for its \u2018sins\u2019. This vengeance and venom for going against the Western \u2018rule of law\u2019 is the only explanation for the West using UNHRC to demand war crimes trials.<\/p>\n<p>There was no moral authority during the Inquisition and there is no moral authority in the manner the UN functions behaving as a hobby horse to advance the interests of only the West. All international laws are designed to suit the West, Western cultures, Western thinking and norms. At all-times Western superiority over non-white is the underlying status quo. There is no such thing as credible institutions. Everyone of them is biased and scales are tipped in favor of them. If the non-white nations are unable to realize this and unite to oppose this modern means of slavery our nations will be forever doomed with no real development in sight. The bogey of transparency and human rights are only applicable to non-whites. This is clearly seen by the declaration of US Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in the famous 1857 <em>Dred Scott v. Sanford<\/em>\u00a0decision about the Founding Fathers\u2019 mindset in drafting the Constitution:<\/p>\n<p><em>Blacks had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 3 Holy Crusades are said to account for 1.7million deaths<\/li>\n<li>The Holy Inquisitions is said to have led to 75million deaths. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuttingedge.org\/news\/n1676.cfm\">http:\/\/www.cuttingedge.org\/news\/n1676.cfm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Howard Zinn says European Colonialism killed 100 million people. The colonial invaders are responsible for the deaths of MILLIONS across Asia, Africa, China, the Americas and Australiasia. It is estimated that during the initial Spanish conquest of the Americas up to 8million indigenous people died, marking the first large-scale act of genocide of the modern era (Forsyth)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Congo Free State in Central Africa<\/strong> that was <strong>privately controlled by Leopold II of Belgium<\/strong>. Under his regime there were 2 to <strong>15 million deaths<\/strong> among the Congolese people. (Peter Forbath)<\/li>\n<li>Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies says North American <strong>Indian population was reduced from estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900<\/strong> \u2026.did \u2018Americans\u2019 kill 100million Red Indian natives who owned the land?<\/li>\n<li>Between 1824 and 1908 White settlers and Native Mounted Police in Queensland, according to Raymond Evans, <strong>killed more than 10,000 Aborigines,<\/strong> who were regarded as vermin and sometimes even hunted for sport<\/li>\n<li>In Brazil alone, the indigenous population declined from a pre-Columbian high of an <strong>estimated 3 million to some 300,000<\/strong> (1997). (Gail Fineberg)<\/li>\n<li>World War 1 &#8211; The total number of\u00a0deaths\u00a0includes about 11 million military personnel and about <strong>7 million\u00a0civilians<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>World War 2 &#8211; <strong>Civilians killed\u00a0totalled 50 to 55 million<\/strong>, including 19 to 28 million from\u00a0war-related disease and famine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Remember Zimmerman\u2019s logic? Blacks commit burglary, Trayvon was black, therefore Trayvon was a criminal \u2013 end of case.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lynching of blacks took place in America even upto 1950s. They were social events where families enjoyed picnics watching African slaves being extrajudicially hung and photos became postcards. Blacks were hung for offences as small as \u2018disputing a white man\u2019<\/li>\n<li>There is an uncanny tendency to always accuse a non-white as committing acts of terror while shootings and crimes committed by whites often get brush aside as being the result of some mental state of depression etc. All shooters and mass killers in America have been white except for the Korean student who killed 33 people in 2007.\u00a0 All presidential assassins in US have been white.<\/li>\n<li>Remember the interview with former Secretary of State Madeline Albright who did not bat an eyelid when she said bombing Iraq for false WMDs was \u2018worth it\u2019 inspite of 500,000 Iraqi children dying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8OLPWlMmV7s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8OLPWlMmV7s<\/a><\/li>\n<li>US drone strikes \u2013 41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed \u2013 90% of the time US drones kill innocent people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/oct\/15\/90-of-people-killed-by-us-drone-strikes-in-afghani\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/oct\/15\/90-of-people-killed-by-us-drone-strikes-in-afghani\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>James Lucas writing for GlobalResearch says US has killed more than 20 million people in 37 Victim Nations\u201d since World War II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The latest about Tony Blair getting a clean chit is a icing on the cake to showcase that no amount of crimes committed by the West will ever get to any court and punished as war crimes so long as they the West calls the shot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQALCO4eP_story.html\">Civilian deaths are mourned when others are accused but when the same or worse crimes are being committed by the West ignoring all laws in place it is conveniently brushe under the carpet and the UNSG and the UNHRC head think they are fooling the world releasing \u2018strong statements\u2019 against these nations to show they have said something. For all other nations as in the case of Sri Lanka the insistence on war crimes tribunals and foreign judges and ridiculing our internal systems is the standard operating procedure. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars\/2011\/12\/05\/gIQALCO4eP_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In short it appears that the West have not shed their inquisitorial mindset. The West historically suffers the ailment of blaming only others, demanding apology from others and criminalizing others purely on accusations they think are valid and a court must uphold as truth and nothing but the truth. There is no room for the benefit of doubt or the right to question them. They can accuse and their accusations have to be accepted without question. All fundamentals of court procedures are violated and thrown out the window. Just because they hate the other party, they must be punished using the law that they control. And they have no shame or feel no shame.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fate that has befallen Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there are people still who will call a spade a spade and people who can see the racism of the West and the bias of the UN and we will continue to highlight these bias.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenali D Waduge We are trying our best to understand the mentality behind the manner that the UN &amp; its bodies function. The stark bias is nothing no one can today ignore. 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