{"id":84945,"date":"2019-01-16T22:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84945"},"modified":"2019-01-16T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T21:44:12","slug":"yasmin-sooka-instead-of-hunting-for-war-criminals-in-sri-lanka-try-helping-the-poverty-stricken-blacks-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/01\/16\/yasmin-sooka-instead-of-hunting-for-war-criminals-in-sri-lanka-try-helping-the-poverty-stricken-blacks-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasmin\u00a0 Sooka!, Instead of hunting for war criminals in Sri Lanka try helping\u00a0 the poverty stricken\u00a0 blacks in \u00a0South Africa."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Yasmin Sooka, have you visited the poor Africans living in squalid conditions in Squatter Camps, seen with your eyes the misery of the poor blacks living in shanties of Johanesbourg or the living conditions in Barcelona with strewn filth ?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am sure not Sooka, because you only write reports sitting in comfortable offices or speak to well off \u00a0political leaders who do not understand human suffering, and to \u00a0NGO parasites living on the miseries of others.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yasmin Sooka what has truth and justice you direct given to the poor\u00a0 South Africans still living in utter poverty\u00a0 and in inhuman misery. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the history of civil rights, South Africa lays claim to a momentous achievement \u2014 the demolition of apartheid and the construction of a democracy. But for black South Africans, who account for three-fourths of this nation of roughly 55 million people, political liberation has yet to translate into broad material gains<\/em><\/strong>. \u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peter .S.Goodman , NYT.<\/p>\n

Yasmin Sooka was a member of a UN Panel which prepared a faulty report on Accountability in Sri Lanka for the personal use of\u00a0 UN SG Ban Ki Moon- the Darusman report. It was prepared depending on emails and hearsay evidence collected from files and members of \u00a0the Tamils living abroad, most of them had not been in Sri Lanka during\u00a0 terrorism to even know what it was like.<\/p>\n

The Tamil \u00a0diaspora has a burning prejudice against Sri Lanka and its\u00a0 Sinhala majority.\u00a0 The report was accepted by UN Commissioner for Human\u00a0 Right Navi Pillai a Tamil herself who hero worshipped the terrorist leader Prabhakaran, to accuse Sri Lanka Armed Forces for war crimes, \u00a0during her period of service in the UNHRCouncil and passed it on to Prince\u00a0 Zeid Al-Hussein\u00a0 who continued repression against\u00a0 the Government imposing on it\u00a0 the notorious resolution by America and the West <\/u>for human rights violation and war crimes.<\/p>\n

Yasmina Sooka\u2019s only connection to Sri Lanka is her member ship in the Darusman Panel and her\u00a0 friendship with Navy Pillai sworn enemy of the Sri Lanka Government and its Armed Forces. Sooka \u00a0wants to be in the international lime light\u201d by jumping now and then to accuse for no valid reasons\u00a0 the Officers of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

She accused former General Jagath Jayasuriy\u00a0 when he was in Brazil for war crimes and that he should be taken into custody while abroad.\u00a0 The latest is her condemnation of the Government of Sri Lanka for the appointment of Major General Shavendra Silva as the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

She had said\u00a0 speaking about Majaor General Shavendra Silva, The military officer is arguably the most wanted man in Sri Lanka\u2013yet a decade later, tragically, he is being promoted instead of standing trial.<\/p>\n

Tamil survivors of the war, thousands of whom have been driven into exile since, have expressed horror that Silva has been chosen for such a senior military position. This is an incredible affront to the victims of that war\u2013and jeopardises any reconciliation attempt in Sri Lanka,\u201d<\/p>\n

What Yasmin Sooka does not know, or does not want to acknowledge is the fact that, had it not been for the likes of\u00a0 the Chief of Staff Shavendra Silva, the Tamil civilian population in the North and East would have been driven like cattle \u00a0by the terrorists from place to place in the jungles of the north\u00a0 to be kept as human shields for their protection.<\/p>\n

That suffering of the poor Tamil civilians neither Yasmin Sooka nor the Tamil Diaspora will never ever understand.<\/p>\n

The Government armed forces of Sri Lanka never fought against the Tamil civilians , but against the terrorists who were Tamils. If they fought against the Tamils\u00a0 why did the Sri Lanka Armed Forces specially the Division 58 led by Major General Shavendra Silva evacuated 320 thousand Tamil civilians forcibly kept by the terrorists as a human shield\u00a0 under most \u00a0inhuman sanitary conditions ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This continued accusation of our\u00a0 of the officers of the Armed Forces by Yasmin Sooka should stop.\u00a0 It is a humiliation for a man\u00a0 who took risks for himself and his men to end the suffering of all\u00a0 the people of Sri Lanka. Humiliation of that one man is a humiliation directed to all the people of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Government of Sri Lanka should initiate some sort of action through the Secretary General of the UN to stop Yasmin Sooka taking on herself the role of a world police woman\u201d hunting\u00a0 for war Criminals, \u00a0as she has no official position to make false accusations any Officer of the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka..<\/p>\n

The Armed Forces of Sri Lanka are respected by the people of Sri Lanka. All those officers and member of the Armed Forces who took an active part in the elimination of terrorism and putting an end to 30 years of suffering more of the Tamils of the north and East and other Communities in the rest of the country outside the North and East, are our heroes and saviours of the country and the people.\u00a0 How dare does\u00a0 Yasmin Sooka continue to be ittle our heroes and treat them as having committed war crimes in their legitimate war against the terrorists the enemies of Sri Lanka and its people.<\/p>\n

No body has the right to make vain accusations against them and least of all Yasmin Sooka who made a false report knowing that it was false, \u00a0to dupe the UN and satisfy the Tamils of the Diaspora.<\/p>\n

Let us see why Yasmin Sooka meddles in\u00a0 an affair that does not concern her, when after her participation in\u00a0 writing the false Daruman reports, she became the Director of the International Truth and Justice Project. If she has real humanitarian interests, why doe not she turn to South Africa, her own country where life is\u00a0 not so\u00a0 rosy to the majority of the \u00a0black South Africans who live below the poverty line.<\/p>\n

Yasmin Sooka has a long list of Commissions and Panels in which she served and many\u00a0 writings of\u00a0 all sorts of reports, as well as\u00a0 making speeches \u00a0at forums , but Yasmina Sooka has not actively participated, and actually engaged herself in any project to ameliorate the conditions of the poor people in South Africa, whose human rights are daily in conflict, with government officials and the rich and well to do.<\/p>\n

There is however not that great poverty in Sri Lanka after elimination of terrorism but living conditions of the Tamils as well as the Sinhala and Muslims have largely improved. The Sri Lankans live happily\u00a0 despite the interference by persons like Yasmin\u00a0 Sooka and members of multifarious\u00a0 NGOs working in Sri Lanka earning their living accusing the\u00a0 Armed Forces of Sri Lanka, and political leaders of the Sinhala Community opposing the puppet Government set up by \u00a0the West, \u00a0lead by a Prime Minister supported by the West\u00a0 and the NGOs.<\/p>\n

Yasmin Sooka\u00a0 is still sought \u00a0after by the Sri Lanka Tamil politicians of the TNA to continually accuse the Armed Forces, as they want anti Sri Lanka \u00a0Armed Forces publicity continued as they are planning to have a Tamil only Provinces in the North and East without Army Camps \u00a0after helping the Present Ranil Wickramasinghe Government to prepare a Federal Government which they are determined to get passed in Parliament .<\/p>\n

The Tamil Politicians down play the Sri Lanka\u2019s development after\u00a0 the \u00a0elimination of terrorism. There were proposals to set up a Truth and Justice project in the line of South Africa and even suggestion to put up a statue of Nelson Mandela. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nelson Mandela \u00a0is of course a man respected for his indefatigable fight against South African Apartheid\u00a0 and actively engaged himself until \u00a0the end of the racial regime. \u00a0The South Africans should put up statues of Nelson Mandela every where in South Africa as a reminder that South Africans should not\u00a0 allow themselves to suffer once again\u00a0 because of the colour of\u00a0 their skin. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Yasmin Sooka has apartheid been completely erased from South Africa ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yasmin Sooka open your eye and see the suffering of your people in South Afrika, instead of trying to create misery where there is none in Sri Lanka. The trouble with Sri Lanka is that the Tamil\u00a0 Politicians are living in a mental state of segregation, and suffer through a racial difference created on their own.<\/p>\n

In South Africa the wealth is not reasonably distributed and\u00a0 the people still lack land and wealth and suffer from utter poverty, that Sooka is economic apartheid. It is for you to get involved to finish what Nelson Mandela began to \u00a0liberate people\u00a0 completely\u00a0 both from social and economic segregation. You cannot do that by accusing our armed forces which liberated its people completely from terrorism and gave the people peace and security which you have not given to your own people.<\/p>\n

What action did you \u00a0take against reported high level\u00a0 corruption of the\u00a0 President Jacop Zuma\u2019d Government , will things be better under Cyril Ramaphosa ?<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/24\/business\/south-africa-economy-apartheid.html<\/p>\n

A Statue of Nelson Mandela has no place in Sri Lanka, as Sri Lanka never had apartheid and the Tamil people were and are as free as the Sinhala, and other minority Communities living in Sri Lanka. The comparison to apartheid, genocide by the Sinhala are\u00a0 stories concocted \u00a0by the Tamil politicians to keep the Communities\u00a0 separated and create a separate Eelam State led by the high Caste Tamil politicians. There is no reason why we should have a Statue of a political leader of\u00a0 South Africa who emancipated his people from apartheid erected in our country. It is the high caste Tamils who create apartheid\u00a0 against the low caste Tamils in Sri Lanka, not the Sinhala who treat every one equal.<\/p>\n

But we should have statues erected for the Armed Forces that freed the country and the people from terrorism. We should have a statue of Major General Shavendra Silva in Jaffna as it was Major General Shavendra Silva and his 58 Division that led its assault against the terrorists to liberate 320\u00a0000 Tamil Civilians kept as human shields under repressive condition without prper sanitary conditions, food , water or even clean clothes to wear.<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Africa unlike Sri Lanka is a country with great potentials for development. It is, better than many other African States but still second to Nigeria in development.\u00a0 But the wealth as much of the land is in the hands of the rich white population.\u00a0 While not only the poor blacks but well\u00a0 over 400\u00a0000 white south Africans are living in poverty in squalid conditions in squatter camps. This is being challenged by some white media reporters as they do not want to put the poverty stricken whites along side the blacks.<\/p>\n

Education system is much to be desired. The schools have no adequate \u00a0space and the Principles of Schools are corrupt squandering money from school accounts. The private schools are better, but the poor cannot afford to send their children to them\u00a0 There is no teacher training . Parents yearn to have their children educated but they cannot afford to do so.\u00a0 The gap between the rich and the poor is far greater. Tin and mud shacks in which the poor live in squalid conditions jostle besides luxury mansions of the rich. Health Care in South Africa is low and not within the reach of the poor blacks.<\/p>\n

There is an increasing crime rate , and never ending streams of immigrant coming from countries in the rest of Africa. The government puts the increasing crime rate \u00a0to the inflow of \u00a0immigrants.<\/p>\n

The South Africa has been nominally freed from apartheid , but the black Africans have not been freed from economic\u00a0 apartheid as yet . The Indians and others like Yasmin Sooka are better off than the native Africans , but being better off Yasmin Sooka is interested in doing service to Tamils in Sri Lanka and not helping the\u00a0 poor black Africans who need every ones help to find their way out of poverty.<\/p>\n

I give some internet references below to educate Yasmin Sooka what her duties should be as a South Africans. She should leave her interest in looking after the interest of Tamils in Sri Lanka and\u00a0 ask her self how to help her own people suffering in South Africa, as they are worse off than the Tamils in Sri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Refernces:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/emergingmarkets.blog.franklintempleton.com\/2017\/03\/16\/south-africa-key-issues-and-challenges\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/theconversation.com\/south-africas-problems-lie-in-political-negligence-not-its-constitution-80474<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/24\/business\/south-africa-economy-apartheid.html<\/a> economic apartheid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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