{"id":56331,"date":"2016-07-07T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56331"},"modified":"2016-07-07T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:46:13","slug":"implications-of-chilcot-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/07\/implications-of-chilcot-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Implications of Chilcot Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM \u00a0Spokesperson,\u00a0Unit<\/em><\/span>ed Sri Lanka Association<\/h2>\n

Rt Hon John Key MP,
\nPrime \u00a0Minister of New Zealand,<\/p>\n

Dear Mr Key,<\/p>\n

The Chilcot report has been a severe and sad indictment of the execution of UK & US foreign policy. Iraq is not the only victim \u00a0of it in recent times, these include Sri Lanka too.<\/p>\n

In April 2009 , when Sri Lanka was on the verge of eradicating three decades of Tamil Tiger terrorism, the UK Foreign Secretary David Milibank along with his French counterpart visited Sri Lanka with the specific objective of pressuring the then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse , to abort the military offensive that was achieving this. Had he relented , Sri Lanka ,like Iraq would still be reeling in chaos. Instead, he reminded David Milibank that Sri Lanka was no longer a British Colony\u201d.<\/p>\n

The joint UK\/US pay back for this insolence has come in the form orchestrating the Tiger Diaspora allegation that this eradication of Tiger Terror has come at the cost of an unacceptably high civilian casualty numbers of over 40,000. Just like the WMD\u2019s that were never found in Iraq, seven years after the event , not one of the bodies of these 40,000 alleged casualties nor a single name has been found or revealed.<\/p>\n

They also drew strength for this allegation from the Darusman commission, the\u00a0 UNSG\u2019s panel of advisors who claimed that these numbers were a credible allegation\u201d based on evidence \u00a0they failed to reveal their sources of, for now and for twenty years from now. This would make the Chilcot maligned UN report claiming the presence of WMD\u2019s \u00a0in Iraq, \u00a0whose sources were at least known, appear respectable.<\/p>\n

Based on these allegation Sri Lanka , just like Iraq, are continuing to be made to suffer even now, with demands through UNHCR for further inquiries into these allegations\u00a0 despite two Presidential commissions, The LLRC & Paranagama commission on missing persons , with oversight from three international legal luminaries, declaring clearly that these allegations have no factual or reasonable basis.<\/p>\n

With the release of the Chilcot report\u00a0 with parallels to Sri Lanka as shown, the international community has an obligation to stand up to this bullying of a small nation attempting to recover from the effects of these three decades of Tiger Terror,\u00a0 by calling this monkey of Sri Lanka\u2019s back.<\/p>\n

New Zealand, with it\u2019s powers and responsibilities by being in the UN security council, could and should give the lead.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n

Spokesperson,<\/p>\n

United Sri Lanka Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM \u00a0Spokesperson,\u00a0United Sri Lanka Association Rt Hon John Key MP, Prime \u00a0Minister of New Zealand, Dear Mr Key, The Chilcot report has been a severe and sad indictment of the execution of UK & US foreign policy. Iraq is not the only victim \u00a0of it in recent times, these include Sri Lanka […]<\/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-56331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56331","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=56331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}