{"id":78234,"date":"2018-06-10T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78234"},"modified":"2018-06-10T17:15:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:15:55","slug":"john-argue-amnesty-internationals-coordinator-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/10\/john-argue-amnesty-internationals-coordinator-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"John Argue -Amnesty International\u2019s Coordinator for Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0<\/em>Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

10 June 2018<\/p>\n

John Argue
\nAmnesty International\u2019s Coordinator for Sri Lanka
\nToronto
\nOntario.<\/p>\n

Dear John:<\/p>\n

I stumbled onto your interview with Sulochana Ramaiah Mohan which was headlined 40,000 death claim should be researched. <\/strong>Reading it, I wasn\u2019t sure whether I should laugh at it or cry. In fact I was disappointed in you, for your typical covering of the dishonest AI\u2019s rear-end, the self-appointed Policeman of Human Rights around the world.\u00a0 I understand, as you are part of this cabal.<\/p>\n

You know, that you guys at AI <\/strong>were crowned as the spokesperson for the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC), a longtime supporter of Tamil Tigers, from the moment you and Alex Neve\u00a0 stretched your beggar\u2019s palms to accept that $50,000 largess as a donation in September 2011..\u00a0 Remember John, when it was about to happen, I told you that your AI<\/strong> should not accept that gift as it was going to\u00a0 come and bite you guys at some point in time.\u00a0\u00a0 And it has, not once but several times.\u00a0 And I suppose it was a too bigger sum to refuse when you all were hungry for funds. And since then you have supported their cause of their wanting their Eelam damning the majority Sinhalese community.\u00a0 That is sick, John! I resent it, and it so happens that I am a full-blooded Sinhalese to boot.<\/p>\n

John, you guys were lucky that Asoka Weerasinghe was not the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t be that stupid to give you all a space in Colombo to build your nest to have your decentralized HQ to monitor Human Rights violations in South Asia, until you returned that $50,000<\/strong> to the Canadian Tamil Congress and cleanse yourselves of the sin of being bias in favour of the\u00a0 minority Tami\u00a0 community. I would have demanded that you prove to me and my administration that AI<\/strong> has become a truly neutral INGO, as I just don\u2019t trust Amnesty International <\/strong>one bit, \u00a0AI<\/strong> is suspect.\u00a0 And I have told you this not once, not twice, but several times.<\/p>\n

You know John, you guys at AI<\/strong> have the gall and temerity to claim your moral right to make statements about human rights violations of the Tamils in Sri Lanka when it was your Amnesty Internationa<\/strong>l\u00a0 that abdicated that moral right long time ago, in 1975 when your outfit, Amnesty International <\/strong>devoted a modest half page to Kampuchea in its annual report covering 1975, the year Phnom Penh fell to the Khymer Rouge.\u00a0 And I learn that your Secretary General sent a cable expressing concern for civilians detained in areas of conflict\u201d, <\/em><\/strong>while noting prudently those allegations of mass executions were based on flimsy evidence and secondhand accounts.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0This was when it was a known fact that nearly one-fifth of the population of Kampuchea were exterminated by the Khymer Rouge in the early 1970s.\u00a0 It was also interesting to note that Amnesty Internationa<\/strong>l sent a cable congratulating the new regime of Kampuchea on the large national union without distinction of class, religious belief or political tendency\u201d,<\/em><\/strong> it had just proclaimed. Shish!, what a bunch of disingenuous Yahoos!<\/p>\n

John, your interview announces that you had said that the 40,000 death claim should be researched<\/strong>..\u00a0 Sweet Mother of Jesus!\u00a0 First use your common sense AI<\/em>, <\/strong>before you attempt to embark on your research project.\u201d.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you guys at AI <\/strong>want to ask the 40,000 Tamil death believers,\u00a0 alleged to have been killed by the Sri Lankan soldiers during the last five months of the Eelam War, Show us the bodies, show us the skeletons of the 40,000 deaths before we believe you.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

John, 40,000 Tamils killed in five short months mainly along a sliver of land when the Tamil Tigers were on the run, there weren\u2019t much land to dump the average 5\u20198\u201d bodies even in pyramidal\u00a0 piles. This is a hard to believe number of deaths.<\/p>\n

And you know what, John? No one, not even your Amnesty International <\/strong>\u00a0told us that the Government soldiers forced the retreating Tamils to claw the sun-baked Mullaithivu earth and feverishly dig big holes to dump these 40,000\u00a0 dead Tamil bodies.\u00a0 No one, not even your AI<\/strong> told us that they sighted 5 to 10 backhoes digging large craters to dump the 40,000 dead Tamil bodies.\u00a0 No one, not even your AI<\/strong>\u00a0 told us of the stench of black plumes of smoke snaking towards the heavens from the burning\u00a0 mounds of the dead Tamil bodies that were burnt to get rid of them in a hurry.\u00a0 No one, not even your Human Rights Police, Al,<\/strong> told us that they sighted fast moving fiberglass boats loaded with dead bodies, speeding through the indigo-nights to dump them in the mid-Indian Ocean to get rid of them.\u00a0 No people in the villages of the east coast of South India in places like Chitambaram,\u00a0 Cuddalore and\u00a0 Pondicherry reported that there were several\u00a0 dead bodies, presumably those of the dumped Tamil\u2019s washed onto their shores. Nor did anyone nor Amnesty International <\/strong>reported some weird things going on in the Mullaitivu\u00a0 theatre of war where hundreds of dead bodies of Tamils were strewn around.\u00a0 And that Sri Lankan Army higher-ups were skipping through the bodies, like skipping through our Spring tulips with very effective Made in China <\/em>disappearing wands and waving over the dead bodies saying A-B-R-A-C-A-D-A-B-R-A and doing the disappearing act and wooossshhhh\u201d\u2019; the dead bodies disappear into the thin air,\u00a0 How else would they disappear that quickly John.\u00a0 It has to be an act of magic.\u00a0 Right!<\/p>\n

You smart Alec\u2019s at Amnesty International<\/strong> should be able to tell us how that 40,000<\/p>\n

dead bodies disappeared.\u00a0 If you don’t know, ask Ban-Ki Moon\u2019s Cut-and-Paste Brigade\u2019s<\/strong>, Ban-Ki Moon, ask Navi Pillay, ask Marzuki Darusman, ask Steven Ratner, ask Yasmin Sooka.\u00a0 If they cannot provide you with an honest answer, then slap on their backs stickers saying, in red I am a right Royal HUMBUG, trying to hang Sri Lanka from the UN\u2019s rafters\u201d\u00a0 Do it, John. This is a vicious game of Bullying the small guy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tell me, John, did you all at Amnesty International <\/strong>comment on the 100,000 Tamils being killed by the Sri Lankan soldiers during the last five months of the Eelam War as claimed by the British Labour Party\u2019s,\u00a0 Siobhain McDonagh, MP for Mitcham and Morden, in Surrey,\u00a0\u00a0 If you all didn\u2019t then why not?\u00a0 It is a hellava gory numbers game that you all keep playing as if, in a gambler\u2019s den called, HUMAN RIGHTS HUMBUGS\u00a0 ON KILLERS OF<\/em><\/strong> SRI LANKAN-TAMILS BINGO\u201d.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 A game to target Sri Lanka, to crucify that little island nation, Sri Lanka, where I come from.\u00a0 What a bunch of Dodo\u2019s, John.\u00a0 I know McDonagh\u2019s constituency is peppered with Tamil refugees and immigrants. That\u00a0 doesn\u2019t give her the\u00a0 legitimacy to lie about Sri Lanka\u2019s last 5 months of the Eelam War\u00a0 She as a British politician\u00a0 has NO moral right to come up with these\u00a0 unproven atrocious\u00a0 Fairy Tale numbers.<\/p>\n

I did ask her in a letter, what\u00a0 she smoked when she woke up that morning on the day she made that statement.\u00a0 There was no response.\u00a0 So she sells her soul for a Tamil vote as what most of our Canadian Liberals, Conservatives and NDPers do.<\/p>\n

You know what, John, Siobhain McDonagh\u2019s claim of 100,000 killed is a whole population of a town like Ontario\u2019s Waterloo of 104,986; like British Columbia\u2019s town of Delta\u00a0 of 102,238 people;\u00a0 like Ontario\u2019s town of Chatham-Kent of 101,647 people, and that of Alberta\u2019s Red Deer of a population of 100,418.\u00a0\u00a0 Can you imagine trying to bury those populations within a few days, within a few weeks before their skin and flesh starts to deteriorate under a hot tropical sun!\u00a0 This woman is nuts, and AI<\/strong> didn\u2019t speak on it to be fair on Sri Lanka who eradicated Tamil terrorism after the Tamil Tigers haemorrhaged that island for 27 blooding years killing over 100,000 soldiers and innocent people.\u00a0 Too bad.<\/p>\n

John, here\u2019s what I am resentful of.\u00a0 Not a single Human Rights outfit, in the world and that includes your Amnesty Internationa<\/strong>l, and of course, every Sri Lanka watching-Canadian parliamentarian haven\u2019t had the honesty, the gumption and the dignity of their conscience, to stand up and be counted,\u00a0 telling the world, that – Sri Lanka is the only country in the world that eradicated terrorism, by annihilating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE aka Tamil Tigers), the ruthless of them all, on May 19, 2009, by their armed forces.\u00a0 And by doing so gave back to their 20.5 million peoples, the most paramount Human Right, their RIGHT-TO-LIFE, which was hijacked by the Tamil Tiger terrorists,\u00a0 for 27 long\u00a0 bombing-years.\u00a0 All these International Human Rights Organizations who call themselves activists are a bunch of pathetic jokers!<\/strong><\/p>\n

John, when you were asked about the charges of \u201dgenocide\u201d<\/strong> attributed to the Sri Lankan armed forces, your answer was, I feel sympathy for those\u00a0 who feel it was Genocide, but AI has not come up with the conclusion that it was Genocide.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Come on John you can do better. Let\u2019s not waffle about this charge of Genocide\u201d<\/strong>. Let\u2019s be honest,\u00a0 let’s be conclusive, and let\u2019s not be iffy about your answer. You are dodging it consciously, aren’t you!\u00a0 Bad John!<\/p>\n

If there was Genocide<\/strong>, the Sri Lankan Soldiers would not have rescued 295,873 Tamils\u00a0 by the end of the Eelam War, on 19 May, 2009.\u00a0 They were rescued\u00a0 from the clutches of the Tamil Tiger terrorists who herded them for 30 scorching months\u00a0 from the west coast to the east coast under the hot Jaffna sky, like unwashed cattle as a \u2018human-shield\u2019.\u00a0 It would have been easy for the soldiers to tie their hands behind their backs, blindfold them, ask them to kneel and shoot them through their skulls as what the Tamil Tigers did to the 700 Sinhalese policemen who had surrendered to them in the Eastern Province on 11 June, 1990.\u00a0 Well, the Sri Lankan soldiers didn\u2019t do a copycat cold blooded massacre.\u00a0 There was affection and love for these Tamil refugees whom they considered as brothers and sisters.\u00a0 I am not kidding!<\/p>\n

Not only that John, they were the very same soldiers, all Sinhalese, who joined the other Sinhalese civilians to prepare\u00a0 one million hearty meals of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners to feed them every day when they were temporarily housed in\u00a0 refugee camps.\u00a0 So what is your difficulty to come to a conclusion that there was no Genocid<\/strong>e, John?\u00a0 Open your mouth and spit out the truth\u00a0 Spit out the good humanitarian words.\u00a0 For Pete\u2019s sake, Amnesty Internationa<\/strong>l,\u00a0 be honest for once and say so what is a Fact.\u00a0\u00a0 You know what John, not a single International Human Rights Organization has uttered a word and acknowledged this amazing humanitarian deed by the Sri Lankan soldiers who won the war against terrorism. And who also won the hearts of feeble Tamil grandmothers and grandfathers who were carried to safety in their arms like babies, and who\u00a0 kissed the soldiers cheeks and said, Puthata Buddhu Sarana<\/em><\/strong>i\u201d (Son, I wish you Blessings from the Buddha)..<\/p>\n

That itself is good enough reason for me to point my finger at everyone of those organizations and yell at them calling them, \u201dYou Bloody Humbugs!\u201d<\/em><\/strong>. By now you know me enough John, I don\u2019t hold my punches back to anyone who is ever ready to hurt my Motherland, Sri Lanka, unfairly. That is my Mission and I will sing my Anthem heartily –<\/p>\n

O Mother-Lanka,\u00a0 my home and native land<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

True patriot love in me you command<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After being haemorrhaged by Tamil Tigers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I see you proudly rise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As a true democracy and free<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From far away I will love you<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And not let you being cut in to two.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From far away Canada, O Mother-Lanka <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You bet, I will stand on guard for thee\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tell the Canadian Liberal Party\u2019s\u00a0 TERRIBLE FIVE <\/em><\/strong>– Robert Oliphant, Jim Karygiannis, Judy Sgro, Derek Lee and Albina Guarnieri (some are not MPs anymore) who stood on Canada\u2019s Parliament Chamber floor during the Emergency Debate on Sri Lanka, at sundown on 4th February 2009, and, charged the Sri Lankan Government of Genocide of the Tamils,<\/strong> looking up at the Gallery. Do\u00a0 you know why they were looking up at the Gallery, John?\u00a0 It was sardine packed with Tamils, almost saying to them,.You witnessed us lying for you all, now give us your votes.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0What a bunch of lying Yahoos.\u00a0 This is why i wouldn\u2019t hold my nose and drop my ballot into the ballot box with a X against the Liberal candidate at the Federal and Provincial elections. No more…Never!<\/p>\n

Come on Amnesty International <\/strong>don\u2019t pussyfoot around the Genocide\u201d<\/strong> charge.\u00a0 There was no GENOCIDE, <\/strong>period. Surely, not when Sri Lankan soldiers carried frail Tamil grandmothers and grandfathers in their arms like babies and ran dodging Tamil Tiger bullets to safety\u00a0 And that is the rub John.\u00a0 You waffle, and I tighten the screws on you\u00a0 lot as DISINGENUOUS\u00a0 HOG-WASHED\u00a0 HUMAN RIGHTS\u00a0 HUMBUGS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John, you said, 40,000 death claim should be researched.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Don’t be silly and waste your time.and AI<\/strong> funds unless you are hoping to seek\u00a0 more donations from the Canadian Tamil Congress who might fork out Canadian dollars in the 50,000s.<\/p>\n

The research has already been done by\u00a0 British\u00a0 Lord Naseby\u00a0 by accessing confidential reports compiled by none other than London\u2019s own Defence Attache present in Sri Lanka during the infamous last phase of the Eelam War in 2009.<\/p>\n

Lord Naseby came up with some startling discoveries during his research which has kept nailing deep into the coffin of lying International\u00a0 Human Rights Organizations including the UN as despicable Humbugs\u2019 that claimed\u00a0 there had been 40,000 Tamil deaths\u00a0 during the last five months of the war. Or, may be, 100,000 deaths as claimed by that silly woman British MP Siobhain McDonagh.\u00a0 I am still curious to find out what she smoked when she woke up that eventful day when she plucked that number of 100,000 Tamils killed by the Sri Lankan soldiers from the air, when the Sri Lankan soldiers were on the war path to decimate the Tamil Tiger terrorists who were on a daily killing spree with bullets and claymore-mines of innocent people for 27 years\u00a0 And they did it Big time, when they shot the\u00a0 last Tamil Tiger on the sandy beach of the Nandikadal lagoon on the east coast.<\/p>\n

Lord Naseby said, I\u2019ve tracked the war carefully because I just couldn’t\u2019 believe these official figures – they didn\u2019t stack up to the information I was getting.\u00a0 So I then invoked our freedom of information inquiry. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I asked for the dispatches sent by our Defence Attache to our foreign office during the last days of the war.\u00a0 The application was refused twice by our foreign office.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 I then applied directly to the Information Commissioner -which is my right – and got 26 pages of redacted dispatches.\u00a0 Missing were the last six weeks of them.\u00a0 So I applied again. And lo and behold, another 12 arrived.\u00a0 I went through them very carefully.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And in there, there was more than enough evidence that no one in the Sri Lankan government had said anything about killing civilians at all.\u00a0 That was not the objective of the exercise.\u00a0 And from our Defence attache\u2019s dispatches.\u00a0 I thus gleaned that about 7000 were probably killed.\u00a0 And even the Attache\u00a0 says, that about a quarter of those killed were possibly Tamil Tigers (LTTE) because they\u2019d thrown away their uniforms.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, there you are John.\u00a0 You Guys at Amnesty Internationa<\/strong>l couldn\u2019t do any better than Lord Naseby\u2019s research and I can bet my last dollar on that.\u00a0 But here is\u00a0 the final conclusion as I could comprehend.\u00a0 This saga of 40,000 Tamil killed during the last five months of the war, is a bunch of baloney, buckets of hogwash,\u00a0 piffle, poppycock, crotches of codswallop,,\u00a0 buckets of crap, and loads of\u00a0 elephant dung patties.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s what it is John, the 6th Salome veil has come off the 40,000 Tamil, killing promoters and believers and they are in deep tanks in boiling water, doing\u00a0 the Last Credibility Waltz<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 And when the 7th veil of lies comes off, which will be pretty soon according to my Crystal Ball reading. there will tattoos on all the naked bodies saying<\/p>\n

Yes, I\u00a0 lied\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, I am a disingenuous bastard\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, Sorry Sri Lanka, I know I acted like a no good pariah,<\/em><\/strong>\u201d I am mad with you separatist-Tamils for making me believe you, and I look a dunce-capped stupid fool!.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Sri Lankan soldiers, you are the best\u00a0 there was, there is, and the best that will ever be\u201d. Teach us how to eliminate terrorism\u201d,\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>and many more slogans..\u00a0 Some tattoos will be with neon ink so that they could be read in the dark.<\/p>\n

John, you have heard me, loud and clearly, as clearly as the ding-dong of a Sunday Church bell calling you for confession to absolve you of your sin wanting to crucify my Motherland, Sri Lanka,..unfairly.<\/p>\n

You looked good\u00a0 and well in that photo accompanying the article.\u00a0 Keep well, and my advice to you as an older brother is, get off that Amnesty International <\/strong>choo-choo train at the next stop, as it is going nowhere on Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Take care,<\/p>\n

Warmly<\/p>\n

Asoka<\/p>\n

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Asoka Weerasinghe\u00a0Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada 10 June 2018 John Argue Amnesty International\u2019s Coordinator for Sri Lanka Toronto Ontario. Dear John: I stumbled onto your interview with Sulochana Ramaiah Mohan which was headlined 40,000 death claim should be researched. Reading it, I wasn\u2019t sure whether I should laugh at it or cry. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asoka-weerasinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234","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=78234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}