Louise Arbour - CFA
Asoka Weerasinghe
(a concerned SriLankan-Canadian)
Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
January 16, 2008
Madame Louise Arbour
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN
New York, US
Dear Madame Arbour:
You have obviously decided to change gears to the “Bully”
mode with your impetuous statement on the sovereign state of Sri Lanka
withdrawing from the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) signed in February 2002
with, the non-state terrorists’ organization, the Tamil Tigers
(aka Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). Being a Sri Lankan-Canadian,
I am not only disappointed I am also miffed.
What you have failed to tell the Sri Lankans and their law makers is
how you have come to the conclusion that the CFA bore any value at all,
when it had been violated by the Tamil Tigers over 7,000 times compared
to the Sri Lanka armed forces violations of just over 200 times. And
90 percent of these were human rights violations by the Tamil Tigers,
of unlawful killings with impunity of unarmed civilians, arbitrary detention,
torture, and abduction and recruitment of children for its Baby Brigade
to be trained as Black Tiger suicide bombers.
Madame, it beats me to know that you still want this CFA to continue
which died in 2005 for all intent and purposes, thus providing a window
of opportunity for human rights violations for the Tamil Tigers. This
makes me suspicious of your concerns and as to whether you are on the
side of the FBI’s dammed “one of the most dangerous extremist
organizations in the world,” Tamil Tiger terrorists. I most definitely
smell a nasty rat here.
When UNESCO and UNICEF have failed miserably and could do sweet nothing
to rein in the Tamil Tigers to stop human rights violations, who thumbed
their noses at you lot, and let you all dance your hosannas at their
feet to the tom-tom beats of exploding Claymore mines and hand grenades
at every meeting at their headquarters in Kilinochchi, I suppose you
have now adapted the adage, if you can’t beat them, let’s
join them. And hence the veiled threats at the Sri Lankan government,
and wanting the CFA to continue, so that the Tamil Tigers could go on
recruiting child soldiers, smuggle in ship loads of sophisticated armoury,
build air strips, bring in containers with dismantled planes and helicopters
which would be exempt from Custom checks, let the Norwegian government
bring in sophisticated communication systems as diplomatic cargo, and
permit the Tamil Diaspora stuff its war chest with American and Canadian
dollars, sterling pounds, kroners and euros. Madame your intentions
are suspect. And little wonder why the current Australian and American
administrations have made no secret of their disdain for the UN, and
for your Canada to vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
Your impetuous and hypocritical statement against the Sri Lankan government
certainly weakened your position as the Head of OHCHR, and has shown
that your staff is unqualified and inept to monitor Human Rights in
Sri Lanka. As for the United Nations which celebrated its 59^th anniversary
a few months ago, and its Charter which was established with the spirit
of co-operation and mutual respect for all nations and peoples of the
world, you all have embarrassed this institution, and more so having
taken the arrogant “Bully” model against Sri Lanka.
I am “miffed” as you seem to be another copy-cat model of
the weak-kneed Canadian politicians who want to cut and run from Kandahar
because the 77^th Canadian soldier was killed in Southern Afghanistan,
thus giving in to the Taliban terrorists. Your office is guilty for
not going after the Karzai government for human rights violations or
after the Talibanis with the same arrogant vigour that you have adapted
to rap the knuckles of the Sri Lankan Government. How so, Madame Arbour?
Speak to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and he will protest the silly
attitude of your office and its mandate, as he would rightly point out
that wiping out terrorists trumps human rights violations in the process
of their elimination, and that events of September 11 serve us well
in reminding you all that not fighting terrorism head on can have disastrous
consequences for Afghanistan, the region and the world at large, and
that applies to Sri Lanka too.
Before I conclude this letter to you, let me provide you some reasons
why the Mahinda Rajapaksa government is clearly on the right track when
wanting to wipe out Tamil Tiger terrorists in their little nation, and
that you UN types should keep your noses out of their theatre of action;
- because no crime without punishment is a sacred principle of international
law;
- where known perpetrators of crimes cannot be punished through normal
judicial remedy like extradition and prosecution, the criminals have
to be punished extra-judicially, and assassination (killing) may be
the least injurious form of such punishment;
- the right of self defence as codified in article 51 of the UN Charter
and customary right of anticipatory and preemptive attack could include
assassination (killing) as a distinct law enforcing measure.
Justification sought in such assassinations (killings) must have the
two essential invariants that they must be terrorists (Tamil Tigers)
and their crimes cannot be remedied through normal judicial process
(even INTERPOL has difficulty to catch the chief Tamil Tiger Prabhakaran
by his tail).
You certainly have a choice Madame Arbour. You can either help Mahinda
Rajapaksa’s government to wipe out Tamil Tiger terrorism which
has hemorrhaged that pretty island nation for 25 long years by keeping
your nose out of their business, or keep supporting the Tamil Tigers,
the maestros of suicide bombings who invented and perfected the suicide
body pack and now copied elsewhere in the world by terrorists, the only
terrorists outfit that has killed two heads of states, pioneered the
use of women as suicide bombers, and killed over 4000, including politicians
in 2006 and 2007; and create havoc geopolitically in that region.
You make the wrong choice Madam Arbour, and you will bring down your
office for being guilty of being in collusion with the most ruthless
terrorist group in the world, the Tamil Tigers. That is a reality check
for you and the choice is absolutely yours.
Your sincerely,
Asoka Weerasinghe
(a concerned SriLankan-Canadian)
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