Insight By Sunil Kumar

November 23rd 2013

David Cameron has come and gone, breached protocols in a most obnoxious and alarming sense according to many political analysts and left behind him a circumspect web of intrigue in the minds of those ever ready to discredit the Government of Sri Lanka as opposed to those who know the salient truth.

It is interesting to note that the British Prime Minister David Cameron whom many investigative sources reckoned after much research was acting on behalf of the expatriate Sri Tankan Tamil diaspora community who comprise a large chunk of voters in Britain supportive of his party, conditional to their demands to go after the Sri Lankan Government on Human Rights issues which seems to also have a parallel relativity in Canada vis a vis the Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper also dependent of a huge block of Tamil voters for his sustenance who boycotted the CHOGM unlike Cameron and was spared what Mr Cameron now faces as a cauldron of wrath from patriotic and sensitive Sri Lankans.

In this respect Mr Cameron would in all probabilities have been better off adopting the same stance as Canada rather than putting his foot into matters which seemed beyond his comprehension as as well as having little knowledge based on fact towards the realities of what really transpired during the two and three quarter decades long terrorist insurgency which was an illegal and criminal campaign where even if stringent measures were taken militarily to quell and wipe out the terrorists, Sri Lanka surely seemed adequately justified towards it.

This is not a denial that the measures taken were compassionate where the importance rests on prioritising the Sovereignity and Terrotorial Integrity of the Nation and assuring that all citizens were protected from the Tamil Tiger attrocities towards this where the war at times was intense and a raging inferno of armed forces pitted against heavily armed and well equipped terrorists.

The more profoundly pragmatic powers around the world with no vested interests in Sri Lanka know and acknowledge this, so most unfortunately Mr Cameron appers to have simply followed in the footsteps of another directionless former British PM. Mr Tony Blair who went to Iraq with his partner in crime Mr.George W.Bush looking for weapons of mass destruction which they seem to be still looking for with no success.

The analogies are uncannily similar, the eventualities notwithstanding where the question needs to be asked “when will these types ever learn and when will they stop causing the confusion they do in the minds of the gullible which is all they appear to have accomplished despite the intellectual and statesmanly high horse they’re purportedly on and the acumen they boast of on international affairs ( with the exception of Mr Bush of course with his particular brand of shortcomings!) and to add further to the confusion, on his return Mr. Cameron continues to insist that he will not stop hounding Sri Lanka whichs appears to have been his mission as he set out to the CHOGM. Well, good luck to him!

Thankfully there are those Like the Prime minister of Australia and the much respected Prince Charles and his Lady fron Britain who have not only been moderate and diplomatic about their approach unlike “Mr. foot in his mouth Cameron” but have chosen to take a parochial as well as respectful view of Sri Lanka and has acolladed the country observing the amazing progress made in the aftermatth of the troubles. This would have served Mr. Cameron much better had he paused to think where the term accountability now seems to rest on his head for his unilateral choice to castigate Sri Lanka and now appears to be the hunted hunter with many in disapproval of his apathetic words and actions.

That Mr. Cameron has indeed interfered in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, seems an understatement as he seems to have overlooked one outstanding factor where, after the Rajapaksa Administration had signed a joint communiquĩ with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon shortly after the defeat of the LTTE, pledging an independent inquiry into accusations, that it had stringently adhered to it contrary to the lies and innuendo also fuelled and fired by pathetic pro Tamil news sources like Channel 4 , the BBC fanned by globally united Tamil Diaspora towards the cause whether justifiablty or not, exaggerating and at times grossly distorting the truth in order to portray violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws with all the theatrical, melodramatic and graphic resources available to them hardly realizing that most of it is untrue and based on conjecture, hearsay and innuendo.This is based on the many experts and analysts who examined all of these and drew their conclusions as inaccurate and unacceptable despite the houndings of Mr Cameron and his allies who need not only to be reprimanded but perhaps justifiable legal action taken if this did not breach any related protocols in like manner to Mr Cameron.

To sum it all up, one also needs to ask “what businness do such individuals from Britain regardless of their high office have towards such indiscretions which is what they are tantamount to as the purpose of their visit to the CHOGM and the objectives of the summit appears to have been defeated in rank disregard and Mr. Cameron in like manner to a runaway train has breached much of the decorum expected of him which was, not pandering to one side of the Sri Lankan conflict where had he done the same with both sides, meaning the Sinhalese and the Tamils he might have been astounded over what he may have learned in retrospect in a realistic sense and at least an inkling of the liabilities of the Tamils, their support of terrorism and the extent to which the majority Sinhalese suffered as a result of Tamil Tiger attrocities may just have penetrated his cognizance.He might just be singing another song had he done this.

Furthermore Britain is in no capacity to point fingers at Sri Lanka as President Rajapaksa recently pointed out as they need to get their act together and be held accountable for their own excesses dating as far back as both World Wars where horrible attrocities against innocent civilians appears to have been a second nature to the British Armed Forces.

To cap it all up, the very latest revelation about how the British Armed Forces went about killing unarmed civilians during the troubles in Norhern Ireland on the instructions of the High Command is just coming to light and Britain may have to show a lot of accountability towards all this before the likes of Mr cameron goes about bashing Sri Lanka who fought a legitimate war against terrorists, liberated all ethnicities alike despite some being caught up in the conflict grievously albeit unfortunately and what needs to be emphasized here is the lack of observation to the fairness of a conflict where a Sovereign Head of State has had to ward off the evils of terrorism using all the resources available and a job done equitably and admirably to eliminate it. Turning a blind eye to the rehabilitation of the oppressed and the massive development programs now benefitting all Sri Lankans including appreciative Tamils and other minorities is simply adding insult to injury by anyone who takes this route.

On this basis Mr.Cameron does not have an inch to stand on and should hang his head in shame!