Attack is the best form of defence for Sri Lanka

"The present government is a cocktail of politicians of variety of characters. They are not driven by any political ideologies or well set plans to progress the nation in a wide ranging and accountable issues."
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by Rajasingham Jayadevan

(July 02, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and its front agencies are engaged in a boisterous campaign to counter the government’s questionable conduct on good governance and war crimes. Instead of approaching the concerning issues in a responsible and accountable manner, they indulge in mudslinging campaigns against the parties. Their attack spree has not spared even the reputable international figures and organisations.

In the process of their shouting and screaming campaign, the GoSL indirectly admits its guilt by its conduct. In this, the denial spree government is giving the clear message that it is all out to cover up its rots at any cost. The government knows very well that without countering the charges noisily, it will not be able to contain the accusations and prevent any process to make it accountable. It is very much clear that this dishonest government has no other alternative than rebuking the charges by ridiculing the demands and those concerned out of the way at any cost.

Anyone put forward serious questions about governance, human rights violations and war crimes are treated with contempt and are scorned, and in some cases threatened with serious consequences.

The list of victims of the screaming campaign of GoSL is endless. The best and easy weapon Sri Lanka has at its disposal is to simply brand those questioning as mouthpieces of the LTTE. By this conduct, it freely internationalise the LTTE.

The present government is a cocktail of politicians of variety of characters. They are not driven by any political ideologies or well set plans to progress the nation in a wide ranging and accountable issues. This cocktail mix includes clean suited yes men and mavericks and also scary gangsters, paramilitary goons, the so-called ex- terrorists who use their authority in office to enjoy the well natured impunity practiced by the state. The voice of the goons in the government is unrelenting that the passive ones remain subdued and accept the methods of the boisterous and the terror goons without any remorse.

It is worthwhile listing some of the names of the international figures and organisations whom have been castigated by these unconventional persons of the government in a systematic manner.

Ban-Ki Moon – UN Secretary General: He is castigated and even branded as a LTTE mouthpiece for appointing a team to advise him on Sri Lanka.

Hillary Clinton – US Secretary of State: She is branded as another LTTE front person and she came under sustained accusations by the government men and its agents for questioning Sri Lanka.

Navi Pillay - UN Human Rights Chief: She came under relentless and unreasonable attack for playing her role as the head of the top international job. She was slandered in a systematic way to push her out of the office with the help of governments supporting Sri Lanka.

Human Rights Watch – The New York based HRW was an acceptable body when the organisation internationalised the human rights violations of the LTTE. When HRW upheld its neutrality and exposed the GoSL of war crimes, it came under systematic and sustained campaign and branded as a LTTE front.

Amnesty International – This is another pioneering human rights organisation that is not spared by the government and is being linked to the LTTE unreasonably.

European Union – In order to cover up its failures in not meeting the GSP+ agreement, the GoSL is on the spree to brand the EU as another mouthpiece of the LTTE.

India: The President of GoSL knows how to wind up his maverick partner Wimal Weerawanse and the JHU lot to scandalise India whenever it suits him. He takes the two way approach of rocking the cradle gently whilst pinching the baby to scream in his dealing with India.

John Holmes - Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator: He too experienced the adequate share of the attack by the GoSL fronts.

Philip Alston- UN - Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions: A man who stood for justice and put his findings without any fear or intimidation independently came under sustained attack by the government and the government fronts and unnecessarily branded as an LTTE agent.

The list of victims of GoSL onslaught and its fronts are endless and it is the case with the dubious and the gutless elements that are prepared to indulge in elongating and helping Sri Lanka to undermine fair pay in its conduct.

It is the Financial Times on 30/6/10 rightly stated: ‘Commentators in the country are fond of accusing international bodies, such as the United Nations, as being somehow sympathetic to the LTTE, which fought for an independent ethnic Tamil homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka until its defeat last May. Even countries, such as the UK and the US, which banned the LTTE as a terrorist organization and helped crack down on its international financial network, are often accused in Sri Lanka of supporting the rebels’.

Sri Lanka was untouched when people in the south were brutally massacred during the two JVP insurrections in 1971 and after the IPKF arrival. The world has progressed much further since then and has become a global village. In this hi-tech global village escaping from becoming accountable will be uneasy. Let the brutal war with the LTTE be the final war where thousands of innocent people were killed and war crimes were committed in an unacceptable scale. Unless Sri Lanka is made accountable in the international level, it will continue with its spree and behave irresponsibly to undermine the fundamental values and act as a responsible state in the present day open global village.