{"id":92440,"date":"2019-08-21T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92440"},"modified":"2019-08-21T05:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T12:24:40","slug":"us-concerned-about-the-appointment-of-new-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/21\/us-concerned-about-the-appointment-of-new-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"US concerned about the appointment of new army chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

US Ambassador while expressing her concerns regards the appointment of Gen Shavendra de Silva, a valiant soldier and exemplary leader who fought a war against the\u00a0 so-called invincible Tamil Tigers, the world\u2019s most brutal terrorist group and helped to restore the law and order for 20 million Sri Lankas condescendingly says it should not be seen as interference or attempt to dictate. But, the prompt reaction of the USA speaks of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One wonders whether Sri Lanka has ever commented on the US armed forces personnel and their placements. I do not remember Sri Lanka ever being a cuckoo. If so, how is that the USA had to cry down this deserving recognition of a soldier who had almost sacrificed his life to regain the land for its people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Ambassador proceeded to mention the allegations of gross HR violations against the appointee, Sri Lanka\u2019s reputation and how the appointment affects the reconciliation, etc. adding a discordant dint to the presumed innocent comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, let us be clear that the allegations will have to be proved beyond any reasonable doubt before hanging a person. The mere fact that the partisan commentators in the UN, UNHCR and other NGOs and fellow travelers of the Tamil Tigers attempt to darken the war effort of the armed forces of Sri Lanka, such statements should be subjected to scrutiny and investigation before a responsible person attempts to issue a public statement. By quoting various sources one cannot be considered as authentic. Only the proper investigation conducted in the issues relating to war was by the LLRC and they are on record that the actions of the armed forces did not result in war crimes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To level down the discussion now let us turn our eyes to the games played by the US forces. In May 2019 James Palmer wrote an article \u2018America loves excusing Its War Criminals\u2019 and says that a report is being prepared to pardon the war criminals by the US administration. In March 2019, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo stated that the USA would withdraw or deny visas to any International Criminal Court personnel investigating possible war crimes by the USA or allied forces in Afghanistan. In June 2018 USA withdrew from UN Human Rights Council calling it a :\u201d cesspit of political bias and it was a hypocritical body that makes mockery of human rights Citing of these sources by the \u00a0US Ambassador as sources of information about \u2018war crimes\u2019 of Sri Lankan army is perhaps is beating the Devil\u2019s tattoo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, I wish to rest my case without touching on the war crimes committed by the US Generals and members of her forces in many theatres of war as the Ambassador is well aware of the sordid details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RANJITH\nSOYSA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA US Ambassador while expressing her concerns regards the appointment of Gen Shavendra de Silva, a valiant soldier and exemplary leader who fought a war against the\u00a0 so-called invincible Tamil Tigers, the world\u2019s most brutal terrorist group and helped to restore the law and order for 20 million Sri Lankas condescendingly says it should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92440","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=92440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}