Foreign Minister of Rajapak-istan is living in a world of his own

by A Ceylonese

(January 07, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Lots have been written and said about the confused and debilitated state of mind of the External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka, Prof G L Pieris. Fluency in English and professorial legal knowledge alone are not sufficient to hold an esteemed position of Minister of Foreign Affairs. It needs common sense approach and understanding of the reality surrounding the issues handled.

Sri Lanka within the past few years is progressing in a worrying direction, and it will progressively relegate to a reclusive state in the world map. It will soon turn into Rajapak-istan of the inward looking President Mahinda Rajapakse reflecting the sins that is plaguing the ‘istan’ countries in the world.

Since the defeat of the LTTE, Sri Lanka is progressing in a scale that no one would have imagined it will happen in the yesteryears. Systematic anti-minority rule; unprecedented immunity for state backed murders and violence; elongation of anti-social policies; suppression of the media and the judiciary etc., are the parameters that is progressing the country towards another ‘istan’ in the global village.

Even the law and order matter of raiding and arresting the head of the brothel Gina Nona has become a political issue. Some of the actions of the government are anti-Buddhist and is against the making of Buddhist religion of Lord Buddha.

Within the progression from Ceylon to Sri Lanka and to the making of Rajapak-istan comes the latest discharge of the External Affairs Minister G L Pieris at a meeting with the Sri Lankan envoys in his Ministry recently. The main theme of the meeting was about controlling the human smuggling in the international level.

He said: ‘there is a need for co-operation between countries to control human smuggling’. He further said ‘human smuggling is weakening the security between the countries and it is contributing funds for terrorism and illegal money laundering activities’.

‘When Sri Lanka was plagued with terrorism, human smuggling contributed towards its growth. Despite defeating terrorism, illegal human smuggling is continuing and causing adverse consequences for Sri Lanka….. We must not only act against the innocent people who are being smuggled, we also must act against the smugglers’.

Without addressing the causes and perpetrators of human smuggling, the learned Professor and Minister went on to whitewash the whole issue as an international matter.

The root causes of human smuggling from Sri Lanka is the systematic persecution of minorities in the country and the state terrorism and its upshot the LTTE terrorism that made minorities to leave the country in large numbers. Even the majority Sinhalese too used the service of the human smugglers to leave the country to reach the greener pastures.

The successive governments since 1983 effectively contributed towards human smuggling to play the rule of the thumb of effectively making the minorities a manageable ten percent.

Human smugglers were patronised and groomed by the state. The criminality of the state to encourage human smugglers to have free passage and support caused all the difficulties the learned Professor had stated in his speech.

Human smuggler Sathasivam Ramanathan, son Angajan Ramanathan with Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaske.

Will the Professor tell the world why Sri Lanka is officially patronising the leader of human smuggling Sathasivam Ramanathan whose clandestine operations involves a massive network of sub agents of international dimension. They are involved in the massive fraud of producing illegal passports, prostitution and money laundering activities.

Sri Lanka Guardian in its in-depth article ‘Cold war between President’s brother and son!’ datelined 7 November 2010 presented extensive details about the activities of the head of human smuggling Sathasivam Ramanathan. These serious revelations are treated as minor irritations by the government and in particular the External Affairs Minister.

According to sources close to Sathasivam Ramanathan, he is enjoying the rewards of human smuggling by owning a luxury property in the upmarket Cinnamon Garden (Colombo-7) with adequate security provided to him. He is said to be intermingling with Colombo-7 government politicians.

The said head of human smuggling Sathasivam Ramanathan, so far has escaped the eyes of the state police service and the Inland Revenue. All because of his relationship with the successive Presidents of Sri Lanka!

Sri Lanka must set an example to other countries by proactively dealing with the human smugglers like Sathasivam Ramanathan without thriving only on its victory over terrorism.

Just imagine, if Sathasivam Ramanathan is arrested like the brothel head Nona Gina and dealt transparently all his sub-agency links can be targeted with international co-operation. If this is backed by sincere political resolution to the conflict, the need for human smuggling from Sri Lanka will naturally evaporate from the country.