{"id":56706,"date":"2016-07-18T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=56706"},"modified":"2016-07-18T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:14:40","slug":"tony-blair-chilcot-report-and-the-unp-led-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/07\/18\/tony-blair-chilcot-report-and-the-unp-led-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair, Chilcot Report and the UNP led Government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Latheef Farook Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Courtesy The After losing more than two dozen elections, the United National Party (UNP), was voted into office last year. The entire Muslim community voted for the UNP to free themselves from the post-war persecution of Muslims by the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.<\/p>\n

However, dismissing Muslim sentiments, the UNP led coalition aligned itself, virtually unconditionally with the United States led British, French and Israeli neo con war mongers, who have unleashed worldwide a war against Islam and Muslims, destroyed several Muslim countries, killed millions of Muslims, forcing out millions of them into refugee camps and to cross the mighty oceans facing death for hundreds of them in deep waters and the rest finally ending up in the European streets as beggars.
\nAs part of this Samaraweera foreign policy, Tony Blair and his family were invited by Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera on a two week holiday during November 2005.
\nThis not only shocked but also insulted Sri Lanka\u2013once a proud voice of the Non Aligned Movement and a fearless defender of justice for oppressed people worldwide in all third world fora and beyond.
\nAllowing Tony Blair to step into the soil of Sri Lanka, dismissing the island\u2019s intelligentsia and the sentiments of the Muslim community is the last thing one could expect from a Government claiming to establish good governance.<\/p>\n

“Despite the UNP Government aligning with US led war mongers the country was not flooded with investment as expected. “<\/em><\/h2>\n

However, it was not something unexpected as the country led by a UNP Government was perhaps the only Third World country that refused to condemn the US led invasion of Iraq. \u00a0When some Muslim Parliamentarians had tried to condemn the US invasion they were told, according to several sources, by the then Government members to leave the Government and do so.<\/p>\n

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Recently a report by Sir John Chilcot, a reputed civil servant, appointed by Ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2009 to report on the British role in invading Iraq, confirmed that deliberately misleading intelligence was used by Blair to join hands with US President George Bush, to falsely justify and invade Iraq, an illegal war that had led to the rise of jihadi resistance in Europe.
\nThe two executed a Zionist- Israeli plan to destroy Muslim countries in the Middle-East, who were fast developing with their oil wealth.
\nThe US had to make Israel safe at all costs. The US and Britain benefitted with roaring sales of arms all round.
\nOver 500 arms manufacturing industries in the US and Europe benefitted immensely, a small part of the proceeds of which they dole out to the Third World countries imposing on these poor nations conditions, that will keep them chained to these neo-colonialists for generations to come!
\nAh, they will tell you these are conspiracy theories!
\nBritish Zionist Blair together with American Zionist George Bush masterminded the war to destabilise and reshape the Middle East to create a Greater Israel, a nation of foreigners in the Arab world, and to ensure its supremacy in the Middle-East Arab region, which hitherto comprised of peace loving Jews, Christians and Muslims, who co-existed as Arabs.<\/p>\n

“Blair and Bush rained death on innocent Iraqi civilians. According to official figures almost one and half million civilians were killed…”<\/em><\/h2>\n

Many in the world opposed this senseless aggression as the Iraqis, who had already suffered enough since 1991, when the country was divided into three, under the guise of no fly zones, most of its weapons destroyed, its armed forces weakened, its economy devastated and pushed back to pre-industrial era, while the people were subjected to untold suffering due to economic sanctions.<\/p>\n

Green MP Caroline Lucas said she believed Blair was a war criminal, adding:
\nIt [the Chilcot report] confirms what we know, that Tony Blair lied, when he took this country to war on a false prospectus.
\nBlair and Bush rained death on innocent Iraqi civilians. They destroyed the infrastructure depriving \"\"essential services such as without water, electricity, food, drainage, transport network, health, education and even medicine. According to official figures almost one and half million civilians were killed. The exact figure is much more. Hundreds of thousands of men and women were subjected to worst type of barbaric torture and worst form of rape. Should not the criminals be made accountable?
\nThere were also pictures of female prisoners being forced to pose for indecent pictures besides reports of rape about which most victims were reluctant to talk about due to the devastating consequences on their lives in this conservative society. Yet the details were shocking. Should not the world call these war criminals to account for the atrocities that they knowingly committed in order to advance a clear neo-con agenda?
\nThis sadistic torture is deeply rooted in Western racism against the blacks and the Muslims, particularly the Arabs.
\nThe Western shared values\u201d have never stood so despicable in the eyes of the Arabs and Muslims in particular. But then where is the so called caring conscience of the West?<\/p>\n

“It was this very same war criminal Blair invited by the UNP Government, given audience with President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe”<\/em><\/h2>\n

The Western arms industry is dictating to Western leaders and the Western media on their agenda and Chilcot will soon be history.
\nBut transforming ordinary peace loving Blacks and Muslims into beasts and jihadists will continue as each round of cowardly drones continue to kill the innocents, while the Western media scream headlines that Precision targeted attacks killed terrorists\u201d. They will continue until the barbarians arrive at their gates!
\nThey created sectarian war pitting minority Shiite against Majority Sunnis in certain countries and majority Shiites against minority Sunnis in other countries. In yet another well-planned cultural crime against humanity, their cruise missiles, bunker busters and other Weapons of Mass Destruction also destroyed Iraq\u2019s legal system overnight, when valuable documents such as birth certificates, land titles, criminal records, marriage certificates, business agreements, school records, vehicle registrations and even driver licences were used by US troops as camp-fire fodder. Should not these State terrorists be also held accountable?<\/p>\n

“In yet another well-planned cultural crime against humanity, their cruise missiles, bunker busters and other Weapons of Mass Destruction also destroyed Iraq\u2019s legal system overnight, when valuable documents such as birth certificates, land titles, criminal records, marriage certificates, business agreements, school records, vehicle registrations and even driver licences were used by US troops as campfire fodder….”<\/em><\/h2>\n

Around 170,000 items, including the Warqa Vase of 3500 BC, the bull\u2019s head of Ur and the squatting Akkadian King of 2300BC, were looted.
\nLamenting over this pillage, British MP Boris Johnson, also the editor of The Spectator, cried his heart out when he said:
\nIt fills me with rage to think that at least some of the spoils of Iraq\u2019s National Museum will, in all likelihood, end up as bibelots in the brownstone of some bankers in New York\u201d.
\nThe destruction of Iraq had been so meticulously planned, embracing every aspect of this ancient nation that one of their main aims was to physically eliminate academics, professionals and other intellectuals to wipe out the society for generations to come.
\nHundreds of top Iraqi professionals, academics and other intellectuals were systematically killed by Israel\u2019s secret service Mossad, which arrived with a list of names and addresses of more than 400 top intellectuals and killed them in their houses, offices, cars along the streets and other places.
\nAccording to the UN\u2019s International Leadership Institute, 84 percent of Iraq\u2019s higher learning institutions have been burnt, looted or destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The question is whether a small country like Sri Lanka, with almost three fourths of the population of Pakistani city of Karachi, can afford to antagonise the Muslim world, which remains the most sincere friend…”<\/em><\/h2>\n

The spoils from the Iraqi Museum of April 2003, the untrammelled looting of hundreds of archaeological sites and the burning of libraries have placed Iraqi\u2019s access to culture, history, and science in graves.
\nThe assassinations and the flight of Iraqi professionals are the most criminal part of this process.
\nSpeaking in terms of the inhuman atrocities committed by Anglo-American troops in Iraq, one begins to wonder whether Bush and his British partner in crime, Blair and their troops were normal people brought up in decent families, with reasonable human values and feelings.
\nRenowned international legal expert C. G. Weeramantry, former Vice President of the International Court of Justice, said The Anglo-American alliance dragged their troops to the borders of Iraq without the moral, legal and factual evidence and took the illegal road to Baghdad carrying the Biblical curse of the sins of the father on his back\u201d.
\nIt was this very same war criminal Blair, who was invited by the UNP Government, given audience with President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.<\/p>\n

“This clearly showed that despite all claims of Good Governance the UNP remains the same and the Government\u2019s foreign policy has been hijacked by the United States led Israeli, UK and European neo con countrie<\/em><\/h2>\n

Adding insult to injury Blair was honoured, when he was requested to deliver the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial lecture! Do we really need a war criminal to deliver the memorial lecture of an eminent Sri Lankan and that too on the ethnic crisis of the island?
\nTo what criminal level has the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry descend?
\nThis clearly showed that despite all claims of Good Governance the UNP remains the same and the Government\u2019s foreign policy has been hijacked by the United States led Israeli, UK and European neo con countries. They have begun their sordid rule of Sri Lanka through puppets! Minister Samaraweera\u2019s and Government\u2019s special love for the US, the UK and the European countries and Israel is not unknown.
\nHowever, what one cannot understand is the wisdom of welcoming him, despised by even the British public, on a Government invitation?
\nDespite the UNP Government aligning with US led war mongers the country was not flooded with investment as expected. Instead the island\u2019s economy is continued to be sustained by the almost million Sri Lankan employed and remitting around seven billion dollars from the Gulf States!
\nNot only the Gulf, the whole Muslim world, not the dictators there, are watching carefully those, who collaborate with the Israeli sponsored, US led on-going campaign of demonising Islam and Muslims.
\nThe question is whether a small country like
\nSri Lanka, with almost three fourths of the population of Pakistani city of Karachi, can afford to antagonise the Muslim world, which remains the most sincere friend of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/112669\/Tony-Blair-Chilcot-Report-and-the-UNP-led-Government#sthash.D6R8f1HX.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Latheef Farook Courtesy The Daily Mirror Courtesy The After losing more than two dozen elections, the United National Party (UNP), was voted into office last year. The entire Muslim community voted for the UNP to free themselves from the post-war persecution of Muslims by the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. However, dismissing Muslim sentiments, the UNP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56706","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=56706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}