UNHRC’s Navi Pillay faulted for abuse of power
Posted on February 11th, 2021
SINGAPORE: UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) head Navi Pillay’s current campaign against Sri Lanka over alleged human rights violations – along with similar campaigns against Libya and Syria earlier – could jeopardize the cause of human rights around the world, analysts say.
Pillay released a report in February calling for an international investigation into alleged war crimes when the Sri Lankan armed forces crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a final battle in May 2009.
Sri Lanka’s Permanent Envoy in Geneva conveying the Sri Lankan Government’s response to Pillay’s report stated that the UN High Commissioner’s recommendations, reflect the preconceived, politicized and prejudicial agenda which she has relentlessly pursued with regard to Sri Lanka,” and in a 18-page document pinpointed her double standards accusing her of giving scant or no regard to the domestic processes ongoing in Sri Lanka.”
The Sri Lanka government has also criticized the report for arriving at conclusions in a selective and arbitrary manner” and ignoring requests from the Sri Lankan government to provide factual evidence to substantiate allegations and to refrain from making general comments.ADVERTISING
Sri Lanka’s criticism of Pillay is not new. But, commentaries in both mainstream and online media in Sri Lanka indicate a hardening of attitudes in the island state against Pillay’s perceived bias and alleged abuse of power as head of UNHRC. She is said to have got away with it in the international media because the western media apparently tended to believe – and continue to – most of the propaganda put out by the LTTE supporters in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora over the past 30 years.
At the twenty-fifth session of the UNHRC from March 3 to 28 in Geneva, Pillay’s report is due to be officially tabled, and she has refused to entertain a request from the Sri Lankan government that its response to the report be attached as an appendix. The United States has indicated – supported by EU and India – that they may table a resolution at the meeting to establish an independent international investigation into alleged war crimes and human rights violations in Sri Lanka, which the government is sure to reject.
How many of the bullying countries accusing Sri Lanka of crimes against humanity and war crimes have clean hands or a flawless record?” asks Senaka Weeraratne, a Sri Lankan lawyer and international affairs analyst.
What we see today in western dominated international organizations such as the United Nations related bodies such as the UNHRC, ICC and the like are proceedings conducted on an Inquisitorial footing i.e. witch hunts aimed at devastating the target country or individual usually of non–European descent thereby perverting the course of justice. No quarter is given to the other party until it submits to the political will of the bullying nations,” argues Weeraratne.
It is a shameless display of brute power making a mockery of institutional rules and procedures. The targeted country is assumed to be guilty right from the start ruling out any mitigating circumstances. It is virtually a re-enactment of the Inquisition under the auspices of the United Nations rather than the Catholic Church as in the days gone by.”
It is not only Sri Lankans that are complaining about the UNHRC and Pillay’s tactics. Anti-war activists in the West and supporters of the former Libyan regime and that of Syria have also pointed out how these UN agencies, and particularly UNHRC under Pillay, are practicing double standards to promote Western imperial designs.
(Continueed tomorrow)
Kalinga Seneviratne is IDN Special Correspondent for Asia-Pacific. He teaches international communications at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. [IDN-InDepthNews – March 3, 2014]
February 12th, 2021 at 7:38 am
Traitor diasporats’ bogus UNHCRAPISTS war crimes allegations to be blamed for the change of mind. All mussie countries voted last time against it and? Bada udin brought more breeders from abroad and settled them down in Wilipaththu and destroyed that sanctuary. Then empty dog started buria university in the east. These treacherous actions diasporats doing to destroy the Sinhalese actually benefiting fastest breeding religion aka religion of violence mussies immensly.
When the traitors realise their treacherous actions destroy Tamils as well, it will be too late. Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia used to Buddhist countries before the fastest breeding religion aka religion of violence mussies arrived in those countries with their baby machine wives. They multiplied and multiplied and outnumbered (murdered) the natives. Today, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan has 0000 Buddhists. Traitor diasporats treacheries taking Sri Lanka to a 0 Buddhists, 0 Hindus country!
Since 60s, every government was propped up by mussies and mussies landed powerful ministries and promoted baby farms (votes) at an industrial scale. While Tamils never propped up any government mussies did and took full advantage. We have seen former Tamil towns Batticaloa etc succumbed to mussie baby farms. In fact whole of east. Yet some Tamils can’t wait to annihilate the Sinhalese. They still haven’t realised who they can trust more. We have a saying, cutting your nose when you fall out with the face. That’s exactly what they are doing,
While Sinhalese students aren’t supposed to go to universities in N&E, they can go to any university writing in Tamil and marked up by Tamils. Most of the medical, engineering faculties they have a high proportion depriving Sinhalese students of their fare share.They can live anywhere they like in the country while Sinhalese aren’t supposed to live in N&E. Still they moan and moan for more and ready to destroy their own and their thorn in the eye, the Sinhalese who have been more than accommodating since their arrival in Sri Lanka.
All honest people know impotent, deaf and blind in Syria, Yemen UNHCRapists are singing for diasporats’ votes/perks. All the people who love Sri Lanka can see the damage the traitors doing by pushing Sri Lanka towards to becoming a mussie country in the not too distant future. There will be no place for Tamils or Sinhalese in such a country. At least the traitors will achieve their main goal, getting rid of the worst people on the planet, Sinhalese, according to them.
Sinhalese have to thank ever the traitor alugosuwa (to Sinhalese Buddhists only of course) thambi mudiyanaselage jr@
and its murderous (Sinhalese Buddhists only of course) minority worshiping, Mother Lanka dismembering anti Sri Lanka,
anti Buddhist, anti Sinhalese GooandPee aka UNPatriotic_rats lying, thieves for all the ills Sinhalese, Sri Lanka and Buddhism facing today. Mother Lanka dismembering diasporats also a jr@-created.