WAR CRIMES IN SRI LANKA, ICG Asia Report N°191 – 17 May 2010
Posted on May 17th, 2010
Ben Silva
The report by, ICG with the above title ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ suggests that during the liberation of the occupied territory ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”saw tens of thousands of Tamil civilian men, women, children and the elderly killedƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢[4]. ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Clearly, ICG is ignoring the millions killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and hounding Sri Lanka, the victim of Tamil racist terrorism, funded by sources from Western countries. The garbage, baseless reports produced by ICG is nothing new (ref: http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items07/150807-2.html.) It appears that those in ICG that produce reports do not know how to separate facts from fiction and lies produced by LTTE sympathizers. ICG do not appear to know the meaning of accuracy, authenticity, validity, verification etc as theyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ do not appear to check the validity of ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ the secondary data they obtain from various sources. ICG need toƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ checkƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ the integrity of secondary data, which they publish as gospel truth.
IGC completely failed to understand that LTTE attempted to emulate Chola empire builders and made an attempt ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ to expand Tamil Nadu, by annexing parts of Sri Lanka. The flag of LTTE is derived from the flag of Cholas. If LTTE was allowed to survive, as desired by Western countries, it would have caused instability in the whole of the Indian sub continent and would have caused a massive ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ blood bath. In deed manyƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ wonder if the aptly named ICG wanted to create a crisis in the Indian sub continent by defending terrorists. Sri Lanka had no option other than decisively defeat terrorism. We have to recognize that USA used nuclear weapons killing innocent civilians, allied forces fire bombed Dresden and more recently coalition forces killed over one million civilians in Iraq on a mere pretext of WMD. ICG should report on real violatorsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ on human rights rather than publish reports against a victim of terrorism. The more ICG hound Sri Lanka, independent observers in developing countries would see ICG as a mere tool of imperialism, waiting to spring into action, when there is a need to invade.
ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ It is a joke and utter hypocrisy that Canadians that wiped out native Indians, Australians that wiped out Aborigines and the British that gave opium to the Chinese now talk about human rights in Sri Lanka. Indeed the gang in ICG are really wolves in sheepƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s clothing and should be unmasked. Those in ICG may be called racists as they areƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ hounding the brown skinned people ofƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Sri Lanka whilst ignoring the ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ white Christian mega killers of Iraqis and Afghans. Is ICG keen to create more of Abu Gharaib, Guantanamo bay, River side, My lai type situations with their R2PƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ initiative, for their white racist pleasures ? What makes them think that they are better at judgment than others and that they have a right to pee on others ? It is their white skin ? It appears that white racists in the ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ crisis group has tagged the word international to mislead the world.
It appears that officials of ICG has on previous occasions acted against Sri Lanka [3]. Media has indicated links between Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Tamil in UN andƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Gareth Evans. It appears that ICG has come under the influence of the anti Sri Lankan Tamil network. Also it is known that Ms Arbour, previously in UN has been anti Sri Lanka. It now appears that ICG isƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ now influenced by the grand coalition ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”West-NGO-Global Tamil lobby, UN Tamil lobbyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢. It appears that ICG has hatched a grand plot against Sri Lanka and the plot has to be exposed as such, along with the ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ conspirators. Unless the ICG can shake off the influence of anti Sri Lankan racistƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Tamils, ICG itself will get a poor reputation.
Can ICG, an organisation, which is headed by officials with suchƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ racist, prejudiced and jaundiced views, present an impartial and objective report? Obviously such a report is a pre-meditated effort to destabilise Sri Lanka in the international arena.
The areas claimed by LTTE as Tamil homeland are really the home of the Sinhalese, ethnically cleansed by racists and terrorists using violent means. The sad thing is due to ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”CompassionƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ and ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Buddhist way of lifeƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ the Sinhalese ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ made no effort to resist invaders.
Nearly all funding for terrorism originated from Western countries, the very countries that attempted to save the terrorists, the very same countries that ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ are now attempting to accuse Sri Lanka of human rights violations. In fact if there was no funding from these Western countries, there would have been no terrorism and no human rights violations. It does appear that white racists in Western countries are creating tools such as the ICG, to satisfy their greed for world domination and ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ acquire resources of poor counties.
In general, it is fair to say that ICG reports on Sri Lanka are incredibly shoddy, ill-informed piece of work that grossly understate the effect on terrorism and woefully overstates the degree of abuses carried out by the government of Sri Lanka. Once the ICGƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ published a map of Sri Lanka in their reports, which was a direct reproduction of an LTTE map.
If the recommendations of IGC and the Western sympathizers of LTTE were implemented by GOSL, the then the empire building Tamil ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ racist terrorists would have been given another lease of life to slaughter innocent Sinhala civilians, woman and children.
It is indeed a joke thatƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Ms Arbour, the woman who did not have a clue about human rights, now want to resolve crisis in the international arena. Ms Arbour was so clueless, and naƒÆ’†’ƒ”š‚¯ve ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ that there is a web page, with factual contributions from many writers, ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ highlighting her stupidity (ref: http://www.lankaweb.com/news/LousieArbour.html).
ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ It is time Sri Lanka developed self reliance on defence and we piss on imperialists rather than allowing them to piss on us. R2P is nothing but a tool of imperialists to piss on other countries. It is increasingly becoming evident that imperialists are creating new weapons such as R2P and IGC in order to invade countries on false pretexts.
The world is indeed facing a crisis due to over population, global warming, poverty, starvation and disease amongst the poor. It has been reported in the media, BBC, that there are over 3000 preventable deaths due to disease aloneƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ and many children die of starvation. Yet the incompetent racists at ICG, who publishƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ biased, inaccurate reports, ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ want to spend their time and energy hounding the victim of terrorism, Sri Lanka, instead of dealing with real issues.
ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ References
- http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/12/12/open-letter-to-icg/
- ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items07/150807-2.html.
- http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/05/03/%e2%80%9cpottu%e2%80%9d-radhika%e2%80%99s-anti-sri-lankan-politics-bring-disrepute-to-un/http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2010/05/03/%e2%80%9cpottu%e2%80%9d-radhika%e2%80%99s-anti-sri-lankan-politics-bring-disrepute-to-un/
http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka/191%20WaƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚
May 18th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Fine words Ben, thanks but what should we do? How about the GoSL legally going after groups like this for libel, defamation, etc Nothing else except paying cripling compensation and costs of the ‘other side’ will shut them up, even the mere threat of that might do – so go for it!! – S de Silva – London
May 18th, 2010 at 8:41 am
This is clearly a good annalysis of the actions and creations of an Internationsl Organization with wrong ambitions to redicule GREAT LEADERS OF OUR MOTHERLAND- SRI LANKA!!!
But the TRUTH will always prevail.None will be able to tarnish that GOOD IMAGE OF OUR LEADERS.My simple examples are:
1) Pl see what happened to all the ANTI-MR-UPFA Gang at the Presidential and Parliament Elections? What amount of ill gotten hatread filled FALSE ALLEGATIONS WERE LEVELED AT MR- FAMILY who saved Mother Lanka? SF,MR,RK,AvaMangal and the crowd got defeated for the N’th time.
2) See what happened to Milliband the crook who OVERESTIMATED THEIR STREANGTH and tried to BULLY MR to save Prabha the Killer, at the British Elections, who GOT BELLYFULL FROM MR-LOST HIS SEAT.
3) Then the British PM Gorden Brown who THREATENED MR OF WORSE CONSEQUENCES IF WAR AGAINST LTTE WAS NOT STOPPED! Lost the Elections.
Sri Lanka has to be vigilent of such dirty INGOs, But I believe, NONE CAN DESTROY US as long as we do the correct thing.