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On\n21st<\/sup> April 2019 Islamic suicide bombers struck at 8 venues instantly\nkilling some 250 plus people and injuring over 800 some of whom have succumbed\nto their wounds. Some 36 foreigners have also perished. Foreigners or locals \u2013\ninnocent people were targeted and the tragedy is that intel reports were\nreceived since 4th<\/sup> April 2019 giving even the targeted venues. So\nthe question is not whose fault it was but to realize that intel sent went into\nincompetent hands of people who were not suited for their roles and lacked\nknowledge in how to handle the situation because the competent people were\neither made to retire, were given minor roles or transferred elsewhere. The replaced\nwere people who did not know how to handle a calamity. Given the political set\nup & environment, the security apparatus knew that those in power were\nsimply enjoying power with no patriotism so everyone was just doing a daily job\n& going home. How did an administrative system that inspired itself to\ndefeat the most ruthless terrorist group end up this docile? The answers lie\nwith the bandwagon of players who carried out a vilification campaign against\nthe Armed Forces post May 2009 and demonized & demoralized them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When Sri Lankan troops defeated the murderous LTTE & held the dead body of its ruthless leader & showed the world that LTTE ground force was well and truly defeated in May 2009, people hit the streets, holding the national flag, lighting crackers, distributing kiribath \u2013 there was jubilation all round and people of all parties joined in with virtually all vehicles flying the national flag. That jubilation was chopped by the so-called international community via the UN Secretary General demanding to stop the \u2018triumphalism\u2019 inspite of US, UK & Allies still celebrating defeat of Nazi Germany – Victory Day since 1945 annually in grand scale. Such was the jealousy & hypocrisy of the world who hated to admit that Sri Lankan Forces was the ONLY NATIONAL ARMY to defeat a terrorist movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nbandwagon of individuals and groups that collaborated against the armed forces\npost May 2009 were the very same linked to the separatists indirectly &\ndirectly. There is nothing \u2018non-governmental\u2019 in NGOs \u2013 most are funded by\nforeign governments & on their payroll. Most are part of the LTTE\u2019s own\nhuman rights linked club. Others belong to the historical trouble makers that\nland in every country pretending to be the \u2018rights activists\u2019 but all the while\ntrying to implement some foreign geopolitical agenda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Immediately\nafter LTTE defeat came the \u2018allegations\u2019 of 40000 dead which inflated itself to\neven 200,000 though none of those making the allegations or counting the dead\nhas produced names or details of the dead. If even the basic name or skeleton\nis not presented as evidence how can an army be charged of killing people? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thereafter\ncame the Ban Ki Moon report that was a personal report which was never tabled\nin the UNHRC, UNGA or UNSC but became the basis of 3 successive UNHRC\nResolutions all of which are controversial & legally questionable and\nsought to demand as recommendations changing of the country\u2019s constitution,\nrepealing terrorism act and internal matters which by UN Charter was an\ninterference into the internal affairs of Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Totally\nforgotten was that Sri Lanka\u2019s armed forces were called upon to defeat no one\nbut terrorists and in terms of civilian deaths the Sri Lankan official\nstatistics given corroborated with that of the UN Country Team statistics and\nwas less than 10,000. Totally forgotten was the close to 300,000 Tamils the\nsoldiers saved along with 12,000 surrendered LTTE combatants who fought in\ncivilian clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But\nthe bandwagon of locals none of whom have a semblance of patriotism except\ndoing anything for dollars and pounds led the ugly onslaught to name and shame\nSri Lanka\u2019s army. Most were heavily funded by LTTE diaspora as seen by the\nevents organized by them to which these individuals were regular attendees. They\nall went to town to hold our army & intel services accountable in word only\n\u2013 no proof or evidence but because the unpatriotic press gave them space and\ncolumns their lies were promoted. The armed forces were demonized, degraded and\nthe credit due to them were denied. Political pressures were such that even the\nVictory Day celebrations were forced to be renamed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nwell-funded efforts to show our war heroes as war criminals was next taken to\nthe international arena. With foreign media, foreign envoys, UN & UNHRC all\ntaking lead roles. Some who held plum posts went to Geneva to play to the LTTE\ngallery and paint the Sri Lankan Army as war criminals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From\nthe Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission head to the NGO circle heads and many\nothers, the same forces that were too chicken to come out & condemn any of\nthe LTTE atrocities are now talking as if they are the God\u2019s gift to human\nrights & righteousness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nlinks are clearly obvious. All that the LTTE diaspora elements & destabilizing\nagents demand are the very same that these HR & NGO activists are now\nattempting to delivery on their behalf as the regime change assisted by the\nforeign forces have cleverly placed them in prominent & powerful roles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n LTTE\nDiaspora demanded war crimes court against Sri Lanka\u2019s Army and from foreign\nenvoys, TNA, HR activists, NGOs, media all demanded same which was articulated\nvia 3 UNHRC successive resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nresolutions were all flagrant violations of the UN Charter interfering in the\ninternal affairs of Sri Lanka and called for the repealing of the Prevention of\nTerrorism Act and even a new constitution. Not surprisingly, all those that\nsided with LTTE through the years were promoters of this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They\nwere all promoters of the Office of Missing Persons Act, Enforced Disappearance\nAct \u2013 both of which would facilitate false evidence against war heroes and\nsubject them to foreign judicial jurisdiction when the US soldiers in all of\nits illegal invasions are omitted of investigation as was recently seen in ICC\nwithdrawing case against US troops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nSLHRC head is also a promoter of repealing the PTA and in favor of the new\nCounter Terror Act that not only dilutes the powers vested in the PTA but is\nmore of a political witch hunt to charge opposition on frivolous charges\nincluding media. Freedom of speech & expression would be greatly curtailed\nand many are of the view that an increasing unpopular government would benefit\nby passing a CTA to gag the opposition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nSLHRC head is suddenly vested powers to whet military personnel nominated for\npeace keeping missions overseas and she is withholding nominations claiming\nthem to have allegations of war crimes. When no one making blatant charges has\nproduced names of the dead or even skeletons of the dead \u2013 how can any military\npersonnel be charged with war crimes? Even the basic requirement of \u2018proving\nguilt beyond doubt\u2019 is missing. However, the paid media is used lavishly both\nin Sri Lanka & overseas to paid Sri Lanka\u2019s Army as demons and devils. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\nare a few examples of a government bowing down to the bandwagon of vultures\nattempting to project Sri Lanka\u2019s Forces as war criminals and painting the LTTE\nas squeaky clean completely ignoring the 30 years of terrorism LTTE inflicted\non all and the brutalities LTTE committed not only against surrendered or\ncaptured military personnel but upon unarmed civilians too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throwing a war hero to the\nwolves to appease Tamil separatists; the real story behind the \u2018Mirisuvil\nmassacre\u2019 needs to come out<\/p>\n\n\n\n