{"id":58396,"date":"2016-09-06T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58396"},"modified":"2016-09-05T07:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:53:58","slug":"accountability-probe-by-the-unsg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/06\/accountability-probe-by-the-unsg\/","title":{"rendered":"Accountability probe by the UNSG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The editorial in the Island (3\/10) on the visit of the UNSG was indignant enough to provoke thinking. The thinking alone, if not the SG’s probe, hopefully will bring some consolation to the suffering inflicted on citizens, not only Tamils, by the LTTE whose political foot soldiers were the TNA. Placed in the context of the inertia and monumental failures of this organization the silence on the part of the SG on many issues will not be a surprise to the discerning. That the UN has been the most unproductive international body since the Second World War is well known. It has created one of the world’s largest non-governmental bureaucracy, with the highest pension and salary structure, (tax free), is also mired in pervasive corruption, which has failed to improve its own much-maligned accountability.<\/p>\n

The regimes of the previous seven Secretaries General will suffice to illustrate the disappointing history of the UN. The First SG Norwegian Trygve Lie resigned after Soviet Union protested his partiality. The UN under U Thant doubled the size of the UN recording a massive deficit of $175 million more than the size of its annual budget. His withdrawal of the Sinai peacekeepers triggered the six-day War between the Arabs and Israel. His successor Kurt Waldheim claimed rather unconvincingly not to know anything of the massacres of civilians when he was an Oberleutenant in the German Wehrmacht. Boutros-Ghali supplied $35 million worth of weapons in 1990 to the Ruanda regime as Egyptian foreign Minister to the Hutus to kill the Tutsis two years into his regime as UNSG. During his term the Balkans also suffered a series of massacres and he agreed that ‘Disillusion had set in’ after the Cold War. Mr Ban Ki-Moon presided over the current horrendous disaster in the Middle East and as the Chief Administrator, Diplomat and Public relations Chief must bear some of the responsibility. The sad part is that Mr Moon has come belatedly to Sri Lanka probing accountability issues when ‘for nearly 25 years the UN doing precious little to help tackle a terrorist group hell bent on destroying a UN member state’.<\/p>\n

While the SG with UNICEF pathetically failed to liberate the child soldiers from the clutches of the Tigers after millions of Dollars in numerous failed projects the TNA is shamelessly leading the protest groups about missing persons about which they were guilty by association when the LTTE went on the conscription rampage. The TNA and Wigneswarams should understand that their defiant demand for the international parties to conduct the investigations to make them 100 percent accurate (in MR Sumanthiran’s words) seems ludicrous when these international parties were guilty of assisting LTTE activists who raised funds and coordinated terrorist activities internationally to destroy so many lives plunging, as the editor noted,\u00a0 ‘this country into a conflagration’, but now dubiously canvassing only the last phase to be probed so that the West can get away scot-free. Justice seems to be on the side of the mighty as the Greek philosophers said many moons ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth The editorial in the Island (3\/10) on the visit of the UNSG was indignant enough to provoke thinking. The thinking alone, if not the SG’s probe, hopefully will bring some consolation to the suffering inflicted on citizens, not only Tamils, by the LTTE whose political foot soldiers were the TNA. Placed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-donald-chandraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396","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=58396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}