{"id":95869,"date":"2019-12-01T23:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95869"},"modified":"2019-11-30T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:54:12","slug":"why-does-the-west-its-media-love-to-hate-the-rajapakses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/01\/why-does-the-west-its-media-love-to-hate-the-rajapakses\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the West &amp; its media love to hate the Rajapakse\u2019s?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nothing they do is right. Everything right\nthey do is wrong. What exactly is their problem? This is really puzzling to\nmost patriots and nationalists who are grappling to pinpoint what the root\ncause of this hate ailment against Rajapakse\u2019s by the West is in order to even\nremotely consider avenues for reconciliation. Native American Indians said the\nwhite man speaks with a forked tongue and we can see that in its diplomacy and\ntools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are\nthey angry that LTTE their pet tiger was defeated? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why should they be, LTTE was after all\nmurdering innocent people, terminating their lives for no reason, they made\n$300m annual profits but did not spend a cent on Tamils whom they claim to\nrepresent. Scores of Tamil low caste, poor children were turned into child\nsoldier depriving them their fundamental right to education and living with\ntheir families. Right to freedom was denied by forcing people to remain\nencircled in a defacto area they ruled. How can the West choose the tiger over the\ninnocents that they killed unless their geopolitical-military-trade mattered\nmore than lives of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Were\nthe successive UNHRC resolutions their punishment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bogus dead figure that has no names (or are\ngiving names of dead LTTE terrorists), no skeletons or evidence to prove is the\nbasis for successive resolutions claiming war crimes\/genocide against Sri Lanka.\nNaming terrorist dead as civilians completely ignoring how many Tamils LTTE\nshot and killed while trying to flee LTTE. Refusing to even imagine how 40,000\ndead bodies could have been dug and pushed into graves without US satellite\nimagery seeing them or Ban Ki Moon and his foreign delegation not seeing newly\ndug graves as they travelled over terrain in helicopter 3 days after LTTE\ndefeat. Name dead Tamil civilians not LTTE dead. Prove the Tamil civilians dead\nwere killed by Sri Lanka Army purposely \u2013 just don\u2019t ridicule a national army\nbenchmarking against the proven crimes committed by Western troops in illegally\ninvaded nations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Was\nthis why a totally irregular and unprecedented action was taken by UNSG?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When illegal invasions\/interventions\/bombings\nhave taken place none of which resulted in UNSG appointing panels to personally\nappraise him, why did the UNSG decide to appoint a panel AFTER a conflict that\nlasted 30 years ended? Why did UNSG not seek permission from UNSC or UNGA\nassembly to appoint a UN panel &amp; instead appointed a non-UN member panel\nwhich was to only appraise him of the final months of Sri Lanka\u2019s conflict,\nwhich became the basis of the UNHRC\u2019s recommendation for investigation against\nSri Lanka. We continue to question the legality of this entire process adopted\nwith malice against a UN member state that was suffering 30 years of terror and\ndid not see any assistance of the UN or West to end LTTE terror though all LTTE\nfronts were operating from these Western countries inspite of the West banning\nthe LTTE. When UN and West know that LTTE fronts are operating from their\ncountries why are they not taking action against them for materially supporting\nterrorists? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this why using UN nomenclatures Western\ngovernments are plugging aid and assistance with demands to make legislative\nchanges and weaken\/destabilize Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One good example was the GSP plus requiring\nSri Lanka to make legislative\/penal code\/policy changes which cannot be\nreversed easily but West could with a stroke of a statement revoke GSP. Where\ndoes that leave Sri Lanka after making the changes the West demanded? The MCC\nagreement is one such \u2018grant\u2019 where drastic legislative changes have already\ntaken place as preconditions to giving a grant which is to be audited by US\ngovt and coming through a US incorporated company in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>White\nvan abductions?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was this a foreign intel-psy ops as part of\npsychologically scaring people at the mention of these two words? The fanfare\nover that died out with the stupid stunt played by a former Minister and a\ndriver! But it would be good for the West making wild allegations to be a\nlittle responsible in their accusations by providing names and even court cases\nrelated to such abductions. There was a period that people were abducted never\nto be seen again \u2013 this was during the 1980s \u2013 where were all these human\nrights angels and free media then? The leader of the JVP was toasted alive in\nthe Borella crematorium \u2013 where were the human rights voices? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A plethora of other mud campaigns have been\nsponsored by the West against Rajapakse\u2019s.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thajudeen-Ekneligoda-Lasantha-recirculation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take any foreign media release \u2013 a disclaimer\nat the end will carry something or the other about abducted journalists \u2013\nmurdered journalists implying that no journalist is safe in Sri Lanka. Where\nwere these media when Richard De Zoysa, Sagarika Gomes and a host of others\nincluding lawyer Wijayadasa Liyanarachchi was killed? How is it that their\nnames never make it to international print? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surely, the past 4 \u00bd years with entire\nWest-UN agencies backing the Wickremasinghe government the perpetrators of these\ncrimes should have been brought to book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thajudeen\u2019s case has been blown to bits by an\nOIC put in prison simply because he refused to say the crime was by Rajapakses\nfor which he &amp; his family would get to live in Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VoteMahinda\/videos\/559884671469187\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VoteMahinda\/videos\/559884671469187\/<\/a> (a must listen) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while a former military\/lawyer has revealed shocking\ndisclosures about Ekneligoda <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/www.hirutv.lk\/watch\/18933\/salakuna\/episode215\/2019-11-25\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and the PM and Lasantha\u2019s own brother is on\nrecord for giving the name of the perpetrator of Lasantha\u2019s killing \u2013 all these\nrevelations do not point to any Rajapakse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Human\nrights\/R2P-democracy-rule of law-transparency-accountability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are all Western policy tools and are\nkeys used to sway allegiance\ndiplomatically-politically-economically-culturally-socially with last resort of\nmilitary action (R2P). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But\nwhat is the credibility of these countries to preach?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The West carry a legacy of colonial crimes\nlasting over 500 years with atrocities far atrocious than the isolated one\u2019s\nthey go after \u2013 genocide, elimination of entire tribes, dividing\nfamilies\/tribes by artificial boundaries, inflicting disease and starving with\nintent to murder, killing elephants as a sport, hanging people while eating\nbreakfast, throwing indigenous babies to crocodiles as punishment for natives\nnot towing their line. Plundering treasures and resources of these nations. How\nabout accountability for these heinous crimes?&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, more than 30,000 people are shot,\nmurdered, or commit suicide using guns, and over 200,000 people are wounded in\ngun-related violence in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before giving money to look after the poor in\nother countries take care of the rising poor in the West as a result of failed\ncapitalism. Nearly 40 million people are living in poverty in America. 20% of UK people live in poverty including 8\nmillion working-age adults. In 2017, 112.8 million people in the EU lived in households at risk of\npoverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Racial discrimination is deeply rooted in the\nUS &#8211; racial equality exists only on paper. US speaks about torture \u2013 what about\nthe torture-interrogation methods adopted by CIA many similar to what was used\nduring the Inquisitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US has militarily intervened in 142 countries\nsince 1991. <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/why-america-addicted-foreign-interventions-23582\">https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/why-america-addicted-foreign-interventions-23582<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dictators sponsored by West &#8211; Batista, Somoza,\nMarcos, Mobutu Sese Seko, Pinochet, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the former shah of\nIran), Zia ul-Haq, Syngman Rhee, Suharto, Idi Amin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bombs dropped by West and collateral deaths &#8211;\nas of November 2018, at least 244,000 civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan &amp;\nPakistan have died violent deaths, this excludes Yemen, Syria, Somalia and\nother countries US &amp; NATO are daily bombing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can the West demand Sri Lanka to remove\nmilitary bases in its own country when US has nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad while\nUK and France have military bases in 11 countries? British armed forces are already deployed in more than\n80 countries. The US has 1.3 million\ntroops stationed around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6.9million people\nvoted for Gotabaya Rajapaks in 2019, previously though Mahinda Rajapakse lost\nelections in 2015, he too got 5.8million votes. The masses have placed\nconfidence in him. Far more voters go to vote in Sri Lanka than they do in the\nWest, so people do exercise their democratic right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as they voted out a Rajapakse in 2015 they voted in a Rajapakse in 2019. So don\u2019t cry over spoilt milk. We understand the West has invested heavily in the previous government plus much more on a coterie of dark \u2018princes\u2019 who run civil society &amp; NGO outlets, but it may be good to assess their performance against the remunerations given and replace them \u2013 they have absolutely no credibility in society and are just good for the cocktail circles they call \u2018civil society\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shenali\nD Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing they do is right. Everything right they do is wrong. What exactly is their problem? This is really puzzling to most patriots and nationalists who are grappling to pinpoint what the root cause of this hate ailment against Rajapakse\u2019s by the West is in order to even remotely consider avenues for reconciliation. 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